by Adam Pack
President-elect Donald Trump has approved an agreement by House Republican leaders to fund the government through March 2025 and lift the debt ceiling by 2027.
Trump’s support of the Republican-led House spending bill to avert a government shutdown follows his Wednesday decision to exhaust House Speaker Mike Johnson’s initial stopgap funding. Billwhich was sharply criticized by the newly elected president and Republican lawmakers for including unrelated Democratic policy items in the spending package.
New 116-page interim funding Billcalled a continuing resolution (CR), is a slimmed down version of the previous spending package, which totaled over 1,500 pages. The fresh order still includes a one-year extension of the Farm Bill and $110 billion in disaster relief for victims of hurricanes Milton and Helene. The fresh version omitted provisions from the former Czech Republic that gave lawmakers pay raises, restricted U.S. foreign investment in China and allowed year-round sales of E15 gasoline. Republican Party leaders in the House of Representatives also obtained a one-year authorization for the Global Engagement Center, accused censoring conservative statements from the fresh spending agreement.
“SUCCESS in Washington! Speaker Mike Johnson and the House reached a very good agreement for the American people,” President-elect Trump said he wrote in a Thursday post on Truth Social. “The newly agreed American Aid Act of 2024 will keep the government open, fund our huge farmers and others, and provide relief to those severely impacted by the devastating hurricanes. Also added a VERY essential element, IMPORTANT to the America First Agenda – the date of the very unnecessary debt ceiling will be pushed back two years, to January 30, 2027. Now we can make America great again very quickly, which is what the People have given us a mandate to do .
“All Republicans, and even Democrats, should do what is best for our country and vote YES on this bill TONIGHT,” Trump added.
The House could vote as early as Thursday evening on a bill suspending the regulations, which would require a two-thirds majority to pass the spending package and raise the debt ceiling.
Several members of the conservative House of Representatives Freedom Caucus declared they would vote against the fresh CR.
“More debt. More government. Increasing credit card value by $4 trillion with zero spending caps or cuts. Hard NO” – Texas Republican Chip Roy he wrote in the post on X.
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives appear to be beating their members to oppose the fresh CR. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries he said reporters “Trump, Musk and Johnson’s proposal is ridiculous.”
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Adam Pack is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “House Speaker Mike Johnson” by Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
