Threading The Needle: How Speaker Johnson Is Avoiding Both Shutdown AND The Dreaded Omnibus

Was it only a month ago that a handful of Republicans blew up the leadership structure and plunged us into a couple weeks of pointless chaos?

The catalyst was weird. First there was the Republican rejection of a budget that would have reduced spending and improved security at the border.

Just want to reiterate that Republicans gave up an 8% spending cut and border funding in the CR to have a two week self-immolation.

Everyone was mad at me but I don’t care and I was right lol https://t.co/hQ9FqGTVSG

— Michael Duncan (@MichaelDuncan) October 18, 2023

When that failed, McCarthy put forward a CR. That CR got him bounced out of leadership by Matt Gaetz… and then almost half the time gained in that CR that would have been used for hammering out a budget was wasted in endless jockeying for leadership.

Now? Time’s almost up and something had to be done.

The solution is another CR – but with a twist.

Speaker Johnston explains the rationale behind setting up this particular CR in the way he did.

He was balancing competing issues… a caucus impatient for budget cuts on one side and the Uniparty eagerly wanting an excuse to pass an omnibus on the other.

The two-step CR achieves the critical goal of avoiding a disastrous Christmas omnibus spending package.

We are changing the way Washington works. pic.twitter.com/6dvjYgcS6F

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) November 14, 2023

With the clock ticking, the Democrats would love nothing better than an opportunity to blame another shutdown on the Republicans.

(Who or what was ACTUALLY responsible is irrelevant to their blame games — as we all saw in the shutdown just before Pelosi took back the gavel.)

The end game is a return to regular order and a properly debated budget.

Are you down with that?



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