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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s denunciation of a bipartisan spending bill all but buried that deal while leaving unclear what form a new agreement could take.
By Chris Cameron
Reporting from Washington
President-elect Donald J. Trump denounced a bipartisan spending deal that would fund the government through mid-March and told Republican lawmakers it would be “suicidal” to vote for the deal. His intervention buried the agreement, and the government investment would expire 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.
President Mike Johnson had planned to introduce the compromise bill under an expedited procedure that requires a two-thirds majority for passage, contingent on Democrats and a smaller organization of Republicans adopting it. Now you have to get a majority.
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 tear up a bipartisan agreement they have reached,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York and the minority leader, said Wednesday night.
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