The new 118-page package would fund the government at current levels until March.
The House of Representatives has approved a new plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
The speaker knew there would not be enough support within the Republican majority to pass any funding package since many in the party prefer to slash federal government and would not allow more debt. Gone is Mr Trump’s demand to lift the debt ceiling, which Republican leaders told legislators would be debated as part of their tax and border packages in the new year.
“If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now,” Mr Trump posted early in the morning on social media.The incoming Trump administration aims to slash the federal budget and fire thousands of employees. The president-elect sparked the longest government shutdown in history in his first term at the White House – the month-long closures over the 2018-19 Christmas holiday and new year period.
On Friday morning, vice president-elect JD Vance and Mr Trump’s pick to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, arrived early at the speaker’s office at the Capitol, where a group of holdouts from the hardline House Freedom Caucus were meeting Mr Johnson. Woman who killed and mutilated look-a-like beauty blogger so she could fake her own death is jailed for lifeWill the mystery of missing flight MH370 ever be solved? Search resumes after Malaysia makes bombshell announcementItalian court set to issue verdict in vice premier’s migrant boat kidnap trial
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