Speaker Johnson Caves, Moves Three-Month Spending Bill as Chuck Schumer GloatsBradley Jaye 25 Sep 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are rushing through a three-month spending bill Wednesday in a whirlwind development that will send Congress home through the election.
The agreement gives Schumer what he has long craved – the opportunity to pass a spending bill in the lame duck session after the election but before the new Congress is seated in January, locking in spending levels and policy priorities before an expected Republican takeover in the upper chamber relegates him to minority leader.
The bill’s passage is a fait accompli. Johnson has teed up a Wednesday evening vote under suspension of the rules, which requires two-thirds support but means he can bypass procedures by which his fellow Republicans who oppose the bill can stop it. The bill will receive overwhelming Democrat support.
Tuesday evening, a jubilant Schumer announced he reached an agreement to speed the bill through the Senate that very night.
“I just locked in an agreement to pass the government funding bill tomorrow without amendments, avoiding an unnecessary government shutdown,” Schumer announced. “Families can rest assured that their lives won’t be needlessly upended due to an unnecessary shutdown.”
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