“Congress has had months to negotiate a clean government funding bill to get us to Trump’s term. Yet, here they are again at the last second trying to jam through a 1,500+ page CR that could be called for a vote before the required 72 hour rule.”
– Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), before House Republicans scuttled a pork-laden continuing resolution that would keep the government funded into mid-March. House Speaker Mike Johnson will now attempt something more palatable to the majority party.