Sanity prevailed on Wednesday with House Majority Leader Mike Johnson’s scrapping of a bloated, 1,500-page continuing resolution that Democrats demanded lest the government be shut down. That came after an immense pressure campaign making it clear to Republicans that the time for business as usual was over.
As spending fights go, this one initially followed the same path they always take. Congressional members waited until the last minute to try to fund the government and then used the threat of “crisis” to load up a continuing resolution with thousands of unnecessary, wasteful initiatives. This time, though, it didn’t work, and Democrats are throwing a hissy fit over it.
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