{"id":28758,"date":"2024-12-19T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/what-to-expect-as-republicans-try-to-salvage-spending-package-avoid-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:06:04","slug":"what-to-expect-as-republicans-try-to-salvage-spending-package-avoid-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/what-to-expect-as-republicans-try-to-salvage-spending-package-avoid-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect as Republicans try to salvage spending package, avoid government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The revolt by conservatives and the sudden infusion into negotiations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President-elect Donald Trump,<\/a> Vice President-elect JD Vance and Elon Musk has House Speaker Mike Johnson and others struggling to find a way out of their political cul-de-sac and avoiding a government shutdown at 12:00:01 a.m. ET Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News is told that Trump\u2019s unexpected demand to tackle the debt ceiling in this package has complicated matters exponentially. Many conservatives won\u2019t vote for any debt ceiling increase. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-of-representatives\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And Democrats<\/a> are balking because Republicans reneged on the deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hitchhikers-guide-what-happened-interim-spending-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE HITCHHIKER\u2019S GUIDE TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INTERIM SPENDING BILL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats have bailed out majority Republicans on every major fiscal bill this Congress. They appear to be done with helping Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-gop-leaders-scramble-plan-b-after-trump-musk-lead-conservative-fury-against-spending-bill\"><strong>HOUSE GOP LEADERS SCRAMBLE FOR PLAN B AFTER TRUMP, MUSK LEAD CONSERVATIVE FURY AGAINST SPENDING BILL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there may not be enough time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/government-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avoid a shutdown,<\/a> especially if a new bill is to be produced \u2013 and conservatives demand that it lay fallow for three days before voting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That does not even address getting it through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/theres-always-consequences-gop-rebels-plot-mutiny-against-johnson-over-government-shutdown-drama\"><strong>&#8216;THERE&#8217;S ALWAYS CONSEQUENCES&#8217;: GOP REBELS PLOT MUTINY AGAINST JOHNSON OVER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DRAMA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many members with whom Fox News spoke Wednessday night are now resigned to a very high chance of a government shutdown \u2013 perhaps one which bleeds through Christmas. There simply isn\u2019t a combination of votes that unlocks this puzzle yet.<\/p>\n<p>Congress also hasn&#8217;t addressed disaster aid. Some conservatives are opposed to that for North Carolina and Florida without offsets. The fate of assistance after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/planet-earth\/natural-disasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricanes Helene and Milton<\/a> is now in serious limbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revolt by conservatives and the sudden infusion into negotiations of President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and Elon Musk has House Speaker Mike Johnson and others struggling to find a way out of their political cul-de-sac and avoiding a government shutdown at 12:00:01 a.m. ET Saturday.\u00a0 Fox News is told that Trump\u2019s unexpected &#8230; <a title=\"What to expect as Republicans try to salvage spending package, avoid government shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/what-to-expect-as-republicans-try-to-salvage-spending-package-avoid-government-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What to expect as Republicans try to salvage spending package, avoid government shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}