Democratic leaders suggest party could support GOP stopgap funding bill (thehill.com)

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Democrats in Washington have softened their early opposition to the Republicans’ tiered approach to government spending, signaling a new openness to supporting the House GOP bill and averting a government shutdown at week’s end.

In a Monday letter to House Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his top deputies suggested that Democrats may support the Republicans’ short-term funding bill to keep the government open into early next year — a sharp change of tone that could pave the way for easy passage when the bill hits the chamber floor on Tuesday.

Joined by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Jeffries stopped short of saying party leaders are ready to endorse the GOP proposal, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which was introduced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the weekend.

But he also didn’t rule it out.

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[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

This is just a continuing resolution that contains nothing but continuing current funding levels. One odd thing is for some of government it's going until February, but for other parts it's only going until January. The catch is the gop wants more time to write their insane budgets that contain all their dead on arrival proposals. The continuing resolution gives them more time to write those. Then they pass their insane budget that no Democrat or even most senate Republicans would be okay with, and refuse to negotiate. Then when the funding lapses they plan on shouting, look republicans passed a budget, this is all the democrats fault. Their party is so dysfunctional though they can't even write a wish list budget that's nonserious and would never pass, they're still working on it. Because of the weird structure of the continuing resolution, it'll be an odd government shutdown where some parts get shut down in January and some until February. That's why some were saying the Democrats might not go for this resolution. It is pretty much a signal they intend to let the funding lapse in January while they try to push their far right extremist budget plans through. I doubt the extreme right people that pushed out McCarthy will mind this plan, as long as the new speaker is giving in to all their crazy ideas for the final budget proposal that will never pass, whenever they actually finish it.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah I see. That makes sense in the usual "comically inept yet still dangerous villains" style of the GOP. Thanks for the explanation 🙂

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