Johnson backs fast-track process requiring Democratic support to swiftly end shutdown
Source: The Hill
01/30/26 5:33 PM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House Republicans he wants to utilize a special fast-track process that will require cooperation from Democrats to swiftly pass the funding package that the Senate is poised to send over and end what lawmakers hope will be a brief government shutdown. Johnson told Republicans about his desired play call on a Friday late afternoon conference call, two GOP sources told The Hill.
The process, called suspension of the rules, will bypass the immense difficulty of getting unified Republican support for a regular procedural rule — votes that have given GOP leaders regular headaches as Republican rebels make last-minute demands and leverage the razor-thin House majority. But the suspension process requires a two-thirds majority for success, meaning he will need support from more than 70 Democrats.
The Senate is expected to pass the revamped funding package on Friday night. It includes five full-year funding bills and a stopgap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for two weeks while negotiators hash out Democratic demands for reforms to immigration enforcement.
But because government funding runs out at midnight and the House still needs to approve the package, there will be at least a short funding lapse for large portions of the federal government. Johnson said he hopes to pass the package in the House on Monday.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5715812-mike-johnson-fast-track-funding-shutdown/
The media REFUSE to highlight the fact that agencies that have not already had appropriations passed and signed into law by the President (meaning no longer on the C.R.), means the GOVERNMENT IS SHUTDOWN.
They build up the drama of "Oh no shutdown!!11!!1!!!" and then when it happens, proceed to show their lack of Civics 101 and how a bill becomes a law, by ignoring when it DOES happen. I was listening to a radio news report aobut this while creating this and it was the perfect example (paraphrase) - "Well technically funding has lapsed but it will have minimal effect".
Note this about the House plans (one of the House Rules that probably does away with amendments, etc) -
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They can do the "regular process" and let the RW loons battle it out to add their own stuff back into the "2 week extension" and strip out anything that Democrats proposed in that.
But according to the media, the Senate could unilaterally "avert a shutdown".