The House of Representatives broke for a two week recess Thursday without passing a government funding bill,
ori99 Link alternative leaving them only three days upon their return to avoid yet another potential government shutdown.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was able to pass a short-term funding bill called a continuing resolution - or CR - in mid-January to stave off a government shutdown. The measure passed 314-108 with Democrats joining Republicans to get it across the finish line.
But that funding expires March 1 and the House will not reconvene until February 28.Many conservatives, however, were opposed to the January CR, but Johnson placated their dissent by claiming that the government would get funded with 12 separate bills for each agency of government rather than one large omnibus.
But the House only has three days upon their return from recess to pass those 12 separate bills, raising questions for some as to how Johnson's mission can be
accomplished.
'I think a CR will not be well received by the Republican Conference,' Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., told DailyMail.com.
Rep. Byron Donalds said Republicans would be upset if they have to pass yet another short-term spending bill before the March 1 government shutdown
Speaker Mike Johnson repeatedly indicated he would use the time after passing the January CR to hash out 12 individual spending bills
'When it comes to the Speaker, I think what needs to happen is they got to start thinking strategically over the long-term, not just what's in front of us from one week to the next.'
Donalds also said that the 12 individual funding bills would not happen before the March 1 funding deadline.
'I already know it's not gonna happen before the first,' he said, adding the bills could not get passed since the Senate is already on recess.
Republican Mike Garcia of California agreed: 'I don't know that the individual standalone bills are doable.'
Chairman of the
House Homeland Security Committee Mark Green told DailyMail.com he is hoping to get border security funding attached to any upcoming spending measures.
'Well, what I have been working on is how we can get some border security and inserted on some of this stuff,' Green said.
Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin said he hopes that the House passes a CR to avoid a government shutdown at the beginning of March
Asked if he believes the House is poised to pass another CR the Chairman replied,' God I hope not. I hate voting no.'
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee also said he would 'probably' vote no on another CR unless it included serious funding for borer security.
'I've never voted for a CR since I've been up here,' he said.Democrats, on the other hand, welcome another short term spending bill. 'I suppose and I hope we'll get another CR rather than shutting the government down,' Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said.
'I think that speaker Johnson and the GOP understand that they've already provided enough of a spectacle of chaos and dysfunction that they don't need to sink themselves any more deeply into it.'
The House has already passed two CRs since Johnson took the Speaker's gavel in October. US House of RepresentativesConservatives