U.S. Government Funded Into March

Congressional Leaders have come to an Agreement on a Two-Tranche, Short-Term, Funding Bill to keep the Government Funded into March.

The New Continuing Resolution, will Fund the Government through March 1st and March 8th. The Agreement comes just before the First Funding Deadline of January 19th. The Second Government Funding deadline was February 2nd.

House Republicans will have a Conference Call Sunday night, to Discuss the continuing Resolution.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA, 4th District) announced last weekend, that they had reached an Agreement on Topline Spending numbers, the First step in the Process to Fund the Federal Government.

Those numbers include $1.59 trillion for Fiscal year 2024, with $886 billion for Defense Spending, and $704 billion in Non-Defense Spending. Schumer and Johnson also agreed to a $69 billion side deal, in Adjustments that will go toward Non-Defense Domestic Spending.

But Far-Right Members of the House GOP Conference, slammed the Deal and some have pushed to include Border Policy Changes, in Exchange for Not Shutting Down the Government. The blowback highlights the Challenge for Johnson, who is Leading an extremely Narrow Majority.

Johnson said Friday, the Deal remains in place, after He appeared to be at least entertaining the idea of Abandoning it, in Meetings with Conservatives.









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