Speaker Johnson Proposes 'Two-Part' Plan to Finance Government

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Speaker Johnson,Two-Part Plan,Government Funding

House Speaker Mike Johnson proposes a two-part plan to temporarily continue government funding, with a tighter deadline for full-term funding for easier parts of the budget. The plan aims to avoid a repeat of the massive year-end budgetary pile-up that has happened almost annually for decades.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is on the right track in his Nov. 11 proposal to temporarily continue government funding in two pieces, with a tighter deadline for full-term funding for the easier parts of the budget.

Johnson’s two-part continuing resolution would extend current levels of funding for Agriculture, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy and Water until January 19, with the agencies covered by the eight other “Appropriations” categories extended until Feb. 2. This goes along with Johnson’s pledge next year to pass each of the 12 annual Appropriations bills one at a time and to finish each of them before the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year, so as to avoid a repeat of the massive year-end budgetary pile-up that has happened almost annually for decades. SPEAKER JOHNSON PROPOSES ‘TWO-PART’ PLAN TO FINANCE GOVERNMENT That second promise is easier said than done, but it is achievabl

 

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