Three House Republicans already announced their opposition to the bill before it was released.
House Republicans released on Sept. 16 a bill to fund the government through Nov. 21.
The deadline to fund the government is Oct. 1, as the end of the fiscal year is Sept. 30.
Three House Republicans already announced their opposition to the bill before it was released.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) cannot afford to lose more than two Republicans on party-line votes.
“I am a ‘no’ unless it cuts spending, which I do not anticipate,” Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told Politico.
He said he is likely to support the rule for debating the short-term funding bill “unless it has something funky in it.”
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said she is a “no” on the measure, citing the timing.
“Thanksgiving CR (Continuing Resolution)–NO. I am willing to vote for a CR of any duration—short or long—the least damage to the Republic, but I cannot support one that ends funding right before a major holiday to jam us with an Omnibus. I’ve seen this playbook too many times,” she posted on X.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said the bill would fund the government at levels under the previous administration. A continuing resolution (CR) funds the government at current levels past Sept. 30.
“A CR does not pass any new funding requests for our districts. It is an extension of the Johnson/Schumer/Biden omnibus that I, and many of my conservative colleagues, originally voted ‘NO’ on. Congress should not pass a CR and hand our elected legislative power over to unelected OMB (Office of Management and Budget). That’s not how this works,” she posted on X.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday” on Sept. 14, Johnson accused Democrats of not working with Republicans to fund the government.
“Democrats currently are playing games with this government funding idea; they’re trying to bring in extraneous issues. We’ve been working towards getting the government funding appropriations bills done in the House,” he said.
“Our Appropriations Committee worked, by the way, in bipartisan fashion, to get all 12 appropriations bills through the committee,” he said.
“We’ve gotten three of them passed off the House floor, and now we’ve voted just last week to go into a conference committee with the Senate to begin grinding this out. That’s how the process is supposed to work.”
Johnson said he is not looking for a government shutdown and that there might need to be a continuing resolution.
