Incoming Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-S.D.) indicated that the ball continues to be within the court docket of Home Republicans after a second proposal to increase authorities funding floundered in a vote on the ground forward and that they have to determine methods to transfer ahead forward of Friday evening’s deadline.
“I guess it’s back to the drawing board,” Thune informed The Hill as he exited the Capitol. “We’ll see. We’ll figure out in the House what they want to do next, and they’ll digest this last effort and see what Plan B is.”
“We have to be able to figure out a path forward,” he continued. “We’re little over 24 hours away from a shutdown, so it’s going to have to happen quickly, but we’ll figure it out.”
The feedback got here shortly after 38 Home Republicans voted with virtually each Democrat to vote down a proposal crafted by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) together with coordination by President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance, amongst others.
The spiked invoice would have prolonged authorities funding till mid-March, elevated the debt ceiling for 2 years, and included funds for catastrophe aid and farmer financial help.
Johnson rolled the invoice out on Thursday afternoon after Trump, Elon Musk and scores of conservatives got here out in opposition to the 1,500-plus web page invoice that included quite a lot of concessions to Democrats to convey them on board.
High Democrats are actually urging Johnson to trace again to that bipartisan compromise invoice in a bid to maintain the lights on for the federal government.
“It’s a good thing the bill failed in the House,” Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) informed reporters. “And now it’s time to go back to the bipartisan agreement.”
