We recently did a report on the first months of new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s record and we found, in that report, his commitment to America lacking, let alone his commitment to “conservatism.”
Now, he insists on moving forward with his plan to partially fund the government without getting any real concessions from a party he refuses to recognize as having so left the bounds of American rule of law they are now, in fact, practicing the codes of a different, alien nation, Progmerica, which is no America at all.
House Speaker Johnson pushes stopgap bill to dodge government shutdown – nypost.com
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is moving forward with plans to pass a short-term funding bill through March to avoid a partial government shutdown this week — enraging hardline Republicans who called it a “surrender” to “Biden policies.”
“Last week, House Republicans achieved an improved topline agreement that will finally allow the House and Senate to complete the annual appropriations bills,” Johnson said in a Sunday statement, affirming the $1.66 trillion spending agreement he reached with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
The topline agreement would extend government funding at current levels until March 1 and 8, respectively, with $888 billion allocated for defense spending and $704 billion in discretionary spending.
Another $69 billion would be added to discretionary spending levels following a side deal that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) negotiated with the White House as part of last year’s bill to raise the debt ceiling, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act.