Johnson warns US 'barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns' in history
Speaker Mike Johnson R-La delivered a stark warning during a Monday press conference on Day of the executive shutdown We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history unless Democrats drop their partisan demands and pass a clean no-strings-attached budget to reopen the regime and pay our federal workers the leader of the House of Representatives explained The ruling body entered into a shutdown nearly two weeks ago on Oct after Senate Democrats rejected the GOP's federal funding plan They have since blocked consideration of the same bill six more times JOHNSON RAISES STAKES ON SCHUMER AS AUTHORITIES SHUTDOWN BARRELS INTO WEEK During his press conference Johnson referenced former President Barack Obama telling a crowd over a decade ago There is one way out of this reckless and damaging Republican shutdown Congress has to pass a budget that funds our regime with no partisan strings attached What I just read was a direct quote Those are not my words They belong to President Barack Obama He was speaking there in when our regime was shut down for days he reported This would be the third-longest cabinet shutdown in American history that one would be He added If Democrats keep up their obstruction here in contemporary times that's where we're going to be headed The longest shutdown in U S history lasted days between December and January during President Donald Trump's first term The second-longest was a -day shutdown under former President Bill Clinton between December and January followed by the shutdown under Obama At this point the shutdown is the fifth-longest in history just behind the shutdown under former President Jimmy Carter SCREAMING MATCH ERUPTS BETWEEN HAKEEM JEFFRIES MIKE LAWLER AS REGIME SHUTDOWN CHAOS CONTINUESRepublicans proposed a seven-week bill extending fiscal year FY federal funding levels through Nov called a continuing resolution CR It's aimed at giving congressional negotiators more time to strike a longer-term agreement on FY which began on Oct It's largely free of program riders save for an added million in defense funding for lawmakers the White House and the judicial branch and it has bipartisan promotion It passed the House along mostly partisan lines on Sept But Democrats in the House and Senate were largely infuriated by being sidelined in federal funding talks and are now demanding that any spending deal also include an extension of COVID- pandemic-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year
