<p>Congressional leaders unveiled on Tuesday another stopgap bill to avert a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/government-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government shutdown</a> at the end of the week, just days before the Christmas holiday.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing resolution</a> (CR) seeks to provide funds to various departments through March 14, 2025, and more than <a href="https://x.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1869167167071236572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$100 billion in disaster aid</a>, according to early reports.</p>
<p>Included in its 1,547 pages were many other provisions, such as a <a href="https://x.com/stephen_neukam/status/1869167335640383565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-year farm bill extension</a>, <a href="https://x.com/liz_elkind/status/1869167609880658126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pharmacy benefit management reform</a>, and <a href="https://x.com/connorobrienNH/status/1869169003907957133" target="_blank" rel="noopener">money for submarines</a>.</p>
<p>The measure also has sections to <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1869171923822985492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transfer</a> jurisdiction of RFK stadium to D.C. and funds to <a href="https://x.com/bresreports/status/1869180846101447119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebuild</a> Maryland&#8217;s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was wrecked by a ship collision.</p>
<p>Earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the CR was intended to be &#8220;simple,&#8221; but it also was &#8220;important&#8221; to address hurricane disasters and help struggling farmers.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> on CR: &quot;We&#39;re almost there&#8230;We&#39;ve been working around the clock to get the CR done. It was intended to be and it was until recent days a very simple a very clean CR&#8230;but a couple intervening things have occurred&#8230;We do expect text today.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/qNz2JxWBe3">pic.twitter.com/qNz2JxWBe3</a></p>
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<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) later <a href="https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1869211269322227870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was &#8220;pleased&#8221; with the CR being &#8220;free of cuts and poison pills, while also securing Democratic priorities.&#8221;</p>
<p>He touted &#8220;millions for child care,&#8221; &#8220;workforce training and job placement,&#8221; proposals to help the U.S. &#8220;out-compete&#8221; the Chinese Communist Party, and more.</p>
<p>Another <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/Disaster%20Offset%20and%20Government%20Efficiency%20Act.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> that was released on Tuesday, one called the &#8220;Disaster Offset and Government Efficiency Act&#8221; or &#8220;DOGE Act,&#8221; aims to rein in some spending.</p>
<p>Congress has until midnight on Friday to pass funding legislation to avoid a shutdown. If a 72-hour rule to review the CR is followed, it will come down to the final hours.</p>
<p>With the process involving negotiations between a GOP-controlled House and Democrat-led Senate, some members ultimately did not approve of the final result.</p>
<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/SenRickScott/status/1869183974180094224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bemoaned</a> the CR&#8217;s length, &#8220;billions in reckless and unpaid spending,&#8221; and having &#8220;no time&#8221; to review all of the provisions it contains.</p>
<p>He added that this was &#8220;another reason&#8221; why President-elect Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is needed to &#8220;to help us stop this crap.&#8221;</p>
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<p>In a <a href="https://x.com/freedomcaucus/status/1869190715651043622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to X, the conservative House Freedom Caucus shared demands for moving what it called a &#8220;Cramnibus&#8221; forward with a rule that &#8220;ensures&#8221; a few things.</p>
<p>The group called for &#8220;a full 72 hours to read&#8221; the continuing resolution, as well as a vote on the DOGE Act &#8220;to cut non-defense spending 13% to pre-COVID 2019 levels.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also listed was an amendment to &#8220;stop&#8221; President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;ongoing fire sale of border wall construction materials,&#8221; a blitz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> by The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crazy-trump-says-bidens-border-wall-sale-must-be-stopped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social on Friday that the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to sell of border wall construction materials was &#8220;CRAZY&#8221; and &#8220;must be stopped.&#8221;</p>
<p>He further explained: &#8220;It will cost the U.S. a fortune, and time, to get the exact same wall to replace what has been sold, and the new wall will cost triple the price.&#8221;</p>
<p>Congress has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/johnson-led-house-passes-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown-with-dem-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaned</a> on multiple CRs in recent years, including <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-continuing-resolution-government-shutdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last September</a>. The trend may change with the GOP controlling the House, Senate, and White House next year.</p>

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