Republicans look to push government funding fight into Trump’s term in early 2025
WASHINGTON Congress facesa Dec. 20 deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown, and Speaker Mike Johnson says House Republicans will probably push the fight into early 2025 rather than reach a full-year funding deal this year.
We re running out of clock. Dec. 20 is the deadline. We re still hopeful that we might be able to get that done, but if not, we ll have a temporary measure, I think, that would go into the first part of next year and allow us the necessary time to get this done, Johnson, R-La., said on Fox News Sunday.
That would extend the deadline into early in President-elect Donald Trump s second term. By then, Republicans will have taken control of the Senate from Democrats while maintaining a narrow House majority, giving them more power over federal funding for th...