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With no appropriations bill in sight, House GOP keeps kicking the can (otherwise government shutdown Oct 1st...Nov 17th...JanFeb...March...)
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 77590751" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><h3><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/06/house-vote-government-shutdown-bill/" target="_blank">House passes bill to avert partial shutdown, sends to Senate before deadline</a></h3><p>The legislation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/partial-government-shutdown-vote-house/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3" target="_blank">passed by a 339-to-85 vote</a> and heads to the Senate, which must pass it by midnight Saturday to keep crucial agencies from shuttering when funding lapses. The bill, which was drafted by bipartisan leaders in both chambers, is not expected to face substantial opposition.</p><p></p><p>Far-right Republicans in the House had sought to use the appropriations process to significantly curtail spending by prohibiting funding for Planned Parenthood, slash resources for the Education Department, enact rigid new immigration restrictions and claw back some of the money for the White House’s climate agenda.</p><p></p><p>Most of those provisions did not make it into the final legislation, angering conservatives.Littering appropriations bills with culture-war poison pills — as House Republicans had done in versions of spending legislation last year — would have doomed its chances of passage. Vulnerable House Republicans would have shied away from some controversial measures and Democrats in the House and Senate would have opposed it.</p><p></p><p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has recently been more direct in defending the pathway he has charted to ensure the government does not shut down, as a majority of Republicans recognize they would get blamed for it — a hefty political price during an election year in which the GOP is fighting to keep and expand its two-vote majority.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 77590751, member: 294566"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/06/house-vote-government-shutdown-bill/']House passes bill to avert partial shutdown, sends to Senate before deadline[/URL][/HEADING] The legislation [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/partial-government-shutdown-vote-house/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3']passed by a 339-to-85 vote[/URL] and heads to the Senate, which must pass it by midnight Saturday to keep crucial agencies from shuttering when funding lapses. The bill, which was drafted by bipartisan leaders in both chambers, is not expected to face substantial opposition. Far-right Republicans in the House had sought to use the appropriations process to significantly curtail spending by prohibiting funding for Planned Parenthood, slash resources for the Education Department, enact rigid new immigration restrictions and claw back some of the money for the White House’s climate agenda. Most of those provisions did not make it into the final legislation, angering conservatives.Littering appropriations bills with culture-war poison pills — as House Republicans had done in versions of spending legislation last year — would have doomed its chances of passage. Vulnerable House Republicans would have shied away from some controversial measures and Democrats in the House and Senate would have opposed it. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has recently been more direct in defending the pathway he has charted to ensure the government does not shut down, as a majority of Republicans recognize they would get blamed for it — a hefty political price during an election year in which the GOP is fighting to keep and expand its two-vote majority. [/QUOTE]
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