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Trump wants a shutdown under Biden's watch. He would say and do anything to being chaos to America - under Biden's watch. The worse the economy, and anything else, is when Trump takes over the more he would be able to claim false credit for fixing things:

Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands

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6,483 views Dec 19, 2024
Trump's sudden decision leaves House Speaker Mike Johnson scrambling to
salvage a new plan, days before Friday’s deadline to keep government open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZWufqrkfg

Now on the 3rd try Johnson claims to have unanimity on his side, heard from tv about an hour ago:

Johnson moves forward on spending Plan C: Breaking up the bills

Under the House GOP’s latest plan, Republicans will try to pass three bills separately:
a short-term funding bill, money for recent natural disasters and aid for farmers.

By Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill

12/20/2024, 11:35am ET

7 hours ago

Speaker Mike Johnson has moved on to a Plan C to avert a government shutdown: Breaking up each piece to pass them separately.

Under the House GOP’s latest plan, Republicans will try to pass three separate bills: stopgap funding legislation with a one-year farm bill extension, money for recent natural disasters and aid for farmers, according to two people with direct knowledge of negotiations. A shutdown deadline is now about 12 hours away — the plan would punt that deadline to March 14.

“We’re going to talk to the conference and I’ll give you the final decision when this is over," Johnson said as he walked into a private House GOP meeting Friday morning.

The new plan will test his ability to wrangle his conference. Members believe Johnson is taking the proposal through the Rules Committee, trying to pass it through regular order so it only requires a simple majority on the House floor. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who is on the panel, said that he will back the plan, meaning it should have enough support to get out of the committee.

But then things get trickier. Johnson would need near unity from his conference to bring it up for debate on the floor, known as voting for the rule. Democrats typically don’t vote for rules and are loath to help bail out Republicans after they backed away from a bipartisan funding agreement earlier this week.

If Johnson can manage to clear that hurdle, members could then vote for the individual bills that they support and vote against the ones they don’t — meaning Congress could avert a shutdown while other pieces of the previous GOP-backed bill could be dropped, at least for now. But Republicans do not expect House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to help pass their new plan with Democratic votes, according to two GOP members who spoke with Johnson Friday morning.

The fallback plan is that Johnson will try to pass the individual bills via suspension, which requires a two-thirds majority to clear the House. And other options are still being considered.

“It is being floated that [Donald] Trump cuts a deal with [Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer and we swallow that deal over the weekend,” said another person familiar with the ongoing funding talks, granted anonymity to speak candidly.

Members across the conference, including farm district Republicans and members of the House Freedom Caucus, began actively floating the idea to break up the bills on Thursday, arguing that it was the best shot of anything passing before the government shutdown deadline. Johnson privately huddled with holdouts for hours after a stopgap spending plan endorsed by Donald Trump collapsed on the House floor Thursday evening. This plan does not appear to address the debt ceiling, a demand Trump made on Wednesday but has gotten severe pushback both from conservatives and Democrats.

If it does clear the House, this approach makes it much more complicated in the Senate. Absent an agreement, which requires the blessing of all 100 senators, it will take days for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring up each individual bill.

House Republicans do have the option to bring the bills up separately on the floor but them zip them back into one package through a so-called special rule, sending a single measure to the Senate. That could expedite consideration in the upper chamber.

Lead Art: The U.S. Capitol dome is illuminated by spotlights in Washington, on Dec. 16, 2024. | Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks with reporters.

6 mins ago

House passes government spending package after Trump, Musk fueled chaos

The Senate must still pass the bill, with a midnight deadline looming.

By Katherine Tully-McManus and Jennifer Scholtes
12/20/2024, 6:03pm ET

The House passed a stopgap package Friday evening that pushes the government funding deadline to March, as Congress races to avoid a looming deadline that would shut down the government in six hours.

The package passed 366-34, with the support of 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans. It now moves to the Senate, where leaders are hoping to lock in an agreement to fast-track final passage of the measure, racing against the midnight government shutdown deadline.

The package’s passage seemingly ends a chaotic 48 hours, after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump worked to spike a previously-negotiated bipartisan funding agreement. The package that passed the House includes more than $110 billion in disaster aid and a one year farm bill extension but is stripped of Trump’s demand: a debt limit extension.

Lead Art: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks with reporters as he emerges from the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol, on Dec. 19, 2024. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

29 mins ago

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told his caucus behind closed doors that Democrats are prepared to support the stopgap measure that’s on the floor for a vote now, four people familiar with his remarks said. He also said it was a win for the White House.

With Democratic support, it will likely pass.

By Daniella Diaz, Nicholas Wu and Meredith Lee Hill
12/20/2024, 5:40pm ET

40 mins ago

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries entered his closed-door caucus meeting telling reporters he'd spoken to Speaker Mike Johnson “multiple times” leading up to a House vote to fund the government Friday evening.

A large swath of Democratic votes will be needed to pass the bill, with a shutdown deadline about six hours away. Jeffries did not indicate whether he would support or oppose the package — though he sounded more positive about it than the bill Johnson put on the floor Thursday.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk demanded that the debt ceiling provision be placed into the bill at the 11th hour,” he said. “That has now come out, so we can evaluate the legislation on the four corners of the bill, and that's what we're going to do.”

Daniella Diaz
12/20/2024, 5:29pm ET

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/20/congress/jeffries-addresses-dems-spending-vote-00195745