Kicking cans down the road is an essential skill in Congress, particularly when the government is divided, as it is now. Routine decisions like keeping the federal government operating must await posturing over essential laws each party wants to enact but does not have the power to impose.
The most recent stopgap spending deal expires on September 30, the last day of Fiscal Year 2024. There's been some back-and-forth about the length of the next stopgap based on changing calculations of which party is likely to be in the ascendancy after the November election.
If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don't get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.
The backstory is that in April, Johnson was feeling some heat from the House Freedom Caucus over allegedly 'caving' to Democrats in the last stopgap spending fight.
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