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It seems appreciate equitable a restricted weeks ago, there was a crisis on Capitol Hill as lawcreaters tried to avert a rulement shutdown.

Well, you have a excellent memory. But you don’t have to have a lengthy one. The reason is that a rulement funding drama joined out in Washington equitable before last Christmas. Hoemploy Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., thought he had counterfeit an concurment which could pass the Hoemploy with a coalition of Democrats and Reaccessibleans. It would also get thraw the Senate with Democrats lugging some of the freight to conquer a filibuster.

Everyskinnyg seemed fine until lawcreaters saw the sheer size of the bill. Pdwellnt Trump – then pdwellnt-elect – weighed in. So did Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

And the bill was toast.

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Lawcreaters scrambled to accumulate a skinnymed-down bill to elude a Christmastime rulement shutdown – and punt everyskinnyg until the middle of March.

Guess what?

It’s mid-March.

Lawcreaters flunked to labor out an overall spfinishing package to run until next descfinish. This came after the spfinishing structure that we’re talking about now was presumed to be labored out last descfinish. In fact, many Hoemploy Reaccessibleans grumbleed that lawcreaters flunked to progress the 12 individual spfinishing bills by the book. The Hoemploy has finishd a restricted. The Senate? None. That was under the stewardship of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., when Democrats ran the show last year. Zero bills under novel Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., this year.

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Don’t forget that Johnson seized the speakership in October 2023, promising to administer the appropriations bills one by one. But truth set in. Circumstances forced Johnson to progress multiple stopgap spfinishing packages – frequently with Democratic help. They finpartner funded the rulement for 2023 in April 2024.

This is why rulement funding cascfinishs ricochet around constantly.

Hoemploy Reaccessibleans started the text of an interim spfinishing bill over the weekfinish. It renovels the Biden-level funding numbers – but also creates some cuts to social spfinishing programs and the budget for the city of Washington. However, there are small incrmitigates in funding for the Pentagon. There are restricted Democratic priorities echoed in the bill. Yet Hoemploy Reaccessibleans – who administer the Hoemploy – are insisting Democrats unite them to help pass the bill. Democratic votes may be essential when Reaccessibleans have a skinny meaningfulity. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., already shelp he was a no unless he were to get “a lobotomy.”

During an materializeance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last week, Johnson declareed that Democrats should help becaemploy “rulement funding is always bipartisan. You have to have partners on both sides of the aisle to do it.”

Johnson has needed Democrats to pass rulement funding bills since he supposed the speakership. In fact, Democrats may have salvaged Johnson’s speakership last spring. There was a triumphk and a nod that Democrats may try to buffer any try to oust him – especipartner since he was willing to help a structure to fund Ukraine.

And Johnson, alengthy with his predecessor, createer Hoemploy Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., faced reams of criticism for createing spfinishing bills to avert rulement shutdowns which needed Democrats to pass.

“Speaker Johnson has betrayed (our count on) by passing three CRs to protect the rulement uncover and then forcing us to pass, or to vote on a two-part omnibus, the second one being today,” shelp Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., last year.

She dangerened to delete the speaker when a momentary spfinishing meadeclareive get tod last year.

“This bill was plainpartner a dream and a want catalog for Democrats and for the White Hoemploy. It was finishly led by Chuck Schumer, not our Reaccessiblean speaker of the Hoemploy,” compriseed Greene.

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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., was one of the eight GOP members who voted to delete McCarthy as speaker in 2023. Thrawout that summer, Biggs condemnd McCarthy over how he administerd spfinishing bills and a meadeclareive to elude a collision with the debt ceiling.

“The speaker createed a coalition with Democrats to get us a $4 trillion national debt. And I persist to be troubleed becaemploy he hasn’t repudiated that coalition,” shelp Biggs in June 2023.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is depfinishable for triggering the resolution that led to McCarthy’s demise. McCarthy’s transgression? After the Hoemploy stumbled to pass its own spfinishing package before a rulement funding deadline in September 2023, McCarthy put a immacuprocrastinateed spfinishing meadeclareive on the floor that passed with Democratic help. McCarthy was out the door four days procrastinateedr.

“We’re going to force him into a monogamous relationship with one or the other,” shelp Gaetz at the time.

The Florida Reaccessiblean accemployd McCarthy of jumping “in the back seat” with Hoemploy Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

So now Hoemploy Reaccessibleans have createed a bill that requests to Reaccessibleans. And they foresee Democrats to help them help it.

“The danger of the shutdown is on them at that point. So they better get on board,” shelp Rep. Jake Ellzey, R-Texas.

Ellzey remarkd that if all Senate Reaccessibleans helped the package, it would be incumbent on at least seven Senate Democrats to help fracture a filibuster to progress the structure. Reaccessibleans helderly 53 Senate seats. But 60 yeas are essential to conquer a filibuster.

“And if we shut down, it’s on them,” shelp Ellzey.

Democrats find GOP criticism wealthy – despite the Senate numbers conundrum.

“This is a ask of why can’t they rule?” asked Rep. Ro Khanna, R-Calif. “You elected a Reaccessiblean pdwellnt. You have a Reaccessiblean Hoemploy. A Reaccessiblean Senate. They should be able to have the votes to fund rulement.”

Khanna also blasted the GOP’s “get it or exit it” approach when they were not part of negotiations for this particular bill. Democrats insisted redisjoineions on DOGE and promises about upgrasping programs at federal agencies, alengthy with no cuts to social programs.

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“It’s disingenuous for them to foresee Democratic votes without making settle,” shelp Khanna. “You can’t say ‘Vote for it on my terms.’”

This may be a bumpy week. The Hoemploy structures to pass the bill and skip town, leaving the Senate helderlying the bag. Democrats are debating whether it’s better to protect the rulement operating – since they help federal laborers. They simultaneously stress a rulement shutdown could ask more cuts by DOGE.

But even though this seems appreciate other rulement shutdown battles, this one is sweightlessly separateent. One can never foresee skinnygs to go by the script when Pdwellnt Donald Trump and Elon Musk are included. Some dispute that their meddlence with the December bill was equitable an appetizer. We’ll understand by Friday night if this rulement shutdown danger is appreciate all the others – or not.