December 20, 2024 15:39 GMT
US: House Republicans Tee Up Party-Lines Votes On Spending Bill
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), a conservative member of the House Rules Committee, has told reporters that House Republican leadership has drafted a new spending package and will take it through the Rules Committee just after 11:00 ET 16:00 GMT.
- If House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) can discharge the bill to the House the floor via the Rules Committee, it will only require a simple majority to pass, meaning the GOP can pass the bill along party lines without Democrat support.
- Norman, one of the 38 Republicans who tanked yesterday's spending bill, said he is supportive of the bill but declined to divulge any other details of the plan. Johnson taking the bill through rules strongly suggests that the final package will be a partisan bill, drafted without Democrat input.
- Manu Raju wrote on X a short time ago: "With time ticking til midnight, House Rs considering several options to get out of the funding mess. Among them: dropping the suspension of the national debt limit, which Trump demanded, and moving a short-term clean stop-gap, per sources. It’s unclear which route they go."
- According to Polymarket, the implied probability of a government shutdown has dropped to around 50%, down from a high of 75% late yesterday.
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