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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s denunciation of a bipartisan spending bill still buried that deal, while making it unclear what form a new deal will take.
By Chris Cameron
Reporting from Washington
President-elect Donald J. Trump denounced a bipartisan spending deal that would fund the government until mid-March, telling Republican lawmakers that it would be “suicidal” to vote for it. His intervention all but buried the agreement with government funding scheduled to lapse in less than two days.
Trump’s complaint about the legislation, made in a series of social media posts on Wednesday, fueled an already ongoing conservative revolt opposed to the spending measure. His camp abandoned the life measure in the House while demanding primary adjustments to the agreement that threw negotiations to avoid a government shutdown into chaos.
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Congress has until Friday night to propose and pass a bill that could clear the Republican-led House and Democratic-controlled Senate and be signed by President Biden before the government investment expires at 12 :01 a. m. of SATURDAY. It is unclear what form a new agreement will take.
Speaker Mike Johnson had planned to bring up the compromise bill under a fast-track process that requires a two-thirds majority for passage, relying on Democrats and a smaller group of Republicans to push it through. Now he must cobble together a majority some other way.
Some Republicans said Mr. Johnson was mulling shearing the legislation of a variety of unrelated measures that had been included and putting just the spending extension to a vote. But Democrats would be unlikely to support such a bill. They said Wednesday night that they were in no mood to negotiate a second deal after Mr. Trump directed Republicans to tank the one Mr. Johnson agreed to.
“House Republicans now have to unilaterally break a bipartisan deal that they’ve reached,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N. Y. , said Wednesday night.
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