"If I brought the House back, and we passed another CR, it would meet the exact same fate with Chuck Schumer. He would mock it, they would spike it, and they would try to blame it on us. So what's the point?"
"It was calculated to allow enough time to finish the job," Johnson said of the Nov. 21 deadline last week. "It is going to be more and more difficult with each passing hour to get all the appropriations done on time."
"You guys are writing more about the House calendar than the real pain that's being inflicted on the American people," he said."
House leadership refuses to recall lawmakers from a month-plus recess, arguing that any new continuing resolution would be rejected and blamed on the House. The Senate has failed for the 14th time this week to pass the House-passed CR. Even if the CR passed now, it would provide only about three weeks of funding before the Nov. 21 deadline, likely insufficient to complete full-year appropriations. Senate votes pushed by John Thune may lose purpose as the deadline nears. Some GOP members privately express frustration, while Democrats and some Republicans urge using the recess to pass full-year appropriations.
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