{"id":2382364,"date":"2024-12-20T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-drops-trumps-debt-limit-demand-in-effort-to-avoid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:04:03","slug":"johnson-drops-trumps-debt-limit-demand-in-effort-to-avoid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-drops-trumps-debt-limit-demand-in-effort-to-avoid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson drops Trump&#8217;s debt limit demand in effort to avoid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnson-drops-trumps-debt-limit-demand-in-effort-to-avoid-shutdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2382364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a last-minute effort to prevent a government shutdown, House Republicans are set to vote on a\u200b continuing resolution that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-to-expect-on-capitol-hill-this-week-amid-mad-dash-toward-government-shutdown\/\" title=\"What&#039;s happening on Capitol Hill this week as government shutdown looms\">maintain current funding levels<\/a> until mid-March. This plan omits President Donald trump&#8217;s request for a \u200bdebt limit increase, which faced opposition from GOP deficit conservatives. The \u200dproposed legislation includes \u200d$110.4 billion in disaster aid and \u200ceconomic assistance for farmers and will be voted on under a suspension of rules requiring a two-thirds majority for approval. House Speaker Mike \u200bJohnson will likely need support from Democrats, who have expressed reluctance to provide it. If\u200b the vote fails, Republicans have the option to split the proposal into three separate bills that would\u200b only require a simple majority to pass. Though, if the current resolution is not passed by the end of\u200b Friday, a\u2063 brief government shutdown might\u200c occur, even though it is indeed expected to be temporary with minimal immediate impact. Lawmakers suggest that a &#8220;technical shutdown&#8221; over the weekend may not substantially\u200c affect operations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Johnson drops Trump&rsquo;s debt limit demand in last-ditch effort to avoid shutdown<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1916779\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Republicans are planning to move forward with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3266400\/house-republicans-time-crunch-finalize-spending-deal-hours-until-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">last-<\/a>ditch effort to avoid a government shutdown by voting on Friday afternoon to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">extend current government funding levels<\/a> until mid-March, dropping a demand from President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> to attach a debt limit increase to the spending package. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House\">House<\/a> will vote on a clean continuing resolution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-predicts-when-americans-savings-will-run-dry\/\" title=\"JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Predicts When Americans\u2019 Savings Will Run Dry\">maintain current spending levels<\/a> until March 14 combined with $110.4 billion in disaster aid and economic assistance for farmers, according to lawmakers familiar with the plans. The spending package is the same bill that was shot down by the House on Thursday but excludes the debt limit provision opposed by GOP deficit hawks. <\/p>\n<p>The package will come to the floor under suspension of rules, meaning it will require a two-thirds majority to pass. As a result, House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mike Johnson\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) will need to rely on a significant number of Democrats to help push it across the finish line &mdash; something Democratic leaders have said they will not do. <\/p>\n<p>If that vote fails, GOP leaders could move forward with another proposal to advance separate single-subject bills, dividing the CR proposal into three components: the clean CR, disaster aid standalone, and an economic package for farmers. <\/p>\n<p>Those three bills would likely be advanced by the Rules Committee, which would mean they&rsquo;d only require a simple majority to pass on the floor &mdash; increasing Johnson&rsquo;s chances of success. However, if the bill is pushed through the committee, lawmakers would not be able to vote on final passage until Saturday morning due to House procedures. <\/p>\n<p>That means the government is likely to enter a temporary shutdown, although lawmakers say the weekend offers some cover for those who would be most affected. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There may be a technical shutdown over the course of, you know, the evening or the weekend. Those generally don&rsquo;t mean anything,&rdquo; Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), who has been at the center of negotiations, told reporters on Friday. &ldquo;I mean, nobody gets furloughed, nothing really happens &hellip; if there is a few-hour lapse.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3240974\/meet-new-congress-house-senate-freshmen-119th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>MEET THE NEW CONGRESS: THE HOUSE AND SENATE FRESHMEN ELECTED TO SERVE NEXT YEAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New: The rough plan for CR deal is to move forward on three single subject bills, sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marisa_schultz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@marisa_schultz<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>1) clean CR <br \/>2) disaster relief <br \/>3) farm aid<\/p>\n<p>Then handshake agreement for spending cuts in exchange for debt ceiling increase in reconciliation pckge<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cami_mondeaux\/status\/1870140621035348031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That way, Johnson would not need to rely on the entire Democratic caucus, who, in recent days, have refused to support any funding legislation other than the original bipartisan spending deal that was scrapped earlier this week. However, Democrats could be warming up to the new idea, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told members in a closed-door caucus meeting Friday morning that lines of communication have been reopened with GOP leadership &mdash; signaling some sort of cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>However, not all Democrats said they would be on board with stripping the CR into separate pieces.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a compromise that&rsquo;s on the table,&rdquo; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how separating all of these things is substantively different than passing them together. I would imagine if you&rsquo;re separating them, that means that they&rsquo;re changing the language in them, so they&rsquo;re trying to ask people if we&rsquo;re going to pass something that they&rsquo;re not telling us, what&rsquo;s inside, right? So the answer is no.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-rallies-house-for-third-shot-at-stopping-shutdown-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Johnson rallies House for third shot at stopping shutdown - Washington Examiner\">single-subject bills manage<\/a> to pass the House, it is unclear how they would fare in the Senate. Lawmakers would likely need to negotiate some procedure to combine the separate bills into a single package for the Senate. Otherwise, it could take days for senators to process the individual measures without unanimous consent.<\/p>\n<p>The new funding proposal comes after members of the conservative Freedom Caucus met with Johnson and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance in the speaker&rsquo;s office Friday morning, particularly lawmakers who voted down Johnson&rsquo;s short-term CR the night before.<\/p>\n<p>After scrapping their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3262016\/congress-reaches-cr-spending-deal-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">initial funding bill<\/a> negotiated by both parties in the House and Senate, House Republican leaders put forward their own proposal to keep the government open. That included a measure to suspend the debt ceiling for two years &mdash; a provision that caught many lawmakers off guard, especially deficit hawks in the House who are staunchly opposed to raising the debt limit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those members were included in Friday&rsquo;s meeting, likely resulting in the omission from the latest package. Instead, the speaker and rank-and-file members entered into a handshake agreement to enact spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling raise in Republicans&rsquo; first reconciliation package next year.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the first to suggest separating the main components of the funding legislation into separate bills to hold votes on each portion. Massie was involved in the closed-door negotiations Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hailey Bullis and Marisa Schultz contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1916779\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1916779\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson abandons Trump&#8217;s debt limit request to prevent shutdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2382365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/johnson-shutdown-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[17223,39629,4162,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2382364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-debt-limit","tag-government-shutdown","tag-johnson","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/johnson-shutdown-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382368,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382364\/revisions\/2382368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}