Senate Republican Whip John Thune said Congress may need to pass a short-term government funding bill – known as a continuing resolution – into the “March timeframe” in order to allow lawmakers enough time to process the 12 outstanding appropriations bills and avoid a shutdown.
The chamber’s no. 2 Republican said it’s “unrealistic” to think Congress can get that work done ahead of two fast approaching deadlines, in part because congressional leadership only this week agreed to topline funding levels and appropriators are now beginning the difficult task of negotiating the individual bills that fund different parts of the government.
“We ought to allow some time to do some work on the other bills and, if there is a CR, maybe in the March timeframe,” he told reporters when asked if a CR would be needed.
This is the most “dud” of a congress I’ve seen since I have been old enough to pay attention. Have they done anything meaningful since 2021?
They got too distracted from their sabotage by their self-sabotage, lol 
This session began in 2023.
Right. I keep forgetting that. Was there significant tangible legislation passed between 2021 and 2023 then?
Big items were the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. There are other minor acts like making Juneteenth a federal holiday and the repeal of DOMA.
I would want it to be more liberal, but that requires more liberal people in Congress.
Mike Johnson too distracted by teenage son’s porn history
Remember when republicans rallying cry was “ObAmAAAAA CaNT PaSss a budGET!!!”?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Senate has to do it because the House can’t
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2 Republican said it’s “unrealistic” to think Congress can get that work done ahead of two fast approaching deadlines, in part because congressional leadership only this week agreed to topline funding levels and appropriators are now beginning the difficult task of negotiating the individual bills that fund different parts of the government.
Thune’s comments supporting a continuing resolution could set up a clash with Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republican-controlled House.
Schumer and Johnson announced over the weekend that they had reached an agreement on topline spending numbers, the first step in the process to fund the federal government.
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, which highlights the challenge for Johnson, who is leading an extremely narrow majority.
She cautioned against House Republicans who are threatening to shut down the government in order to press their border legislation, saying that a shutdown “is a road to nowhere.”
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas agreed that a stop gap spending resolution may be needed – and warned they may even have to use extend that to the end of the fiscal year.
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