Better watch your back, pal.Members of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus have urged [Speaker Mike] Johnson to demand deep cuts in spending and scores of conservative policy changes — including tougher border security — as part of the two 2024 funding packages moving through Congress this month. Absent those provisions, they’ve pressed the Speaker to abandon the 2024 talks and pursue an alternate strategy to keep spending at current 2023 levels through the remainder of the fiscal year.
Johnson’s weekend endorsement of a “minibus” deal, which includes six bills that will fund a slew of agencies through September, essentially ignores the entreaties of his right flank.
The package excludes a number of the policy riders demanded by the conservatives while providing billions of dollars in funding over 2023 levels — an increase established by last summer’s debt ceiling deal between President Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
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[Johnson] can either forge deals with Democrats to keep the government open, or he can side with the hard-liners and demand steep cuts in spending, which would likely lead to a shutdown.
Time and time again, Johnson has chosen the former.
The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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