The Hitchhiker’s Guide to what happened to the interim spending bill
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House Speaker Mike Johnson scrapped the interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown after Republicans including President-elect Trump urged lawmakers to reject the measure.
Chad Pergram currently serves as a senior congressional correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.
The stopgap spending package proved unpopular due to its size, and various legislative ornaments festooned on the bill like a Christmas tree. Conservatives were expecting Johnson to handle the spending plan differently this year at the holidays. But it backfired. Badly.
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Conservative lawmakers speak out against a government spending measure released at the last minute ahead of a looming partial government shutdown deadline