President-elect Donald Trump endorsed an agreement by House Republican leaders to fund the government through March 2025 and lift the debt ceiling until 2027.
Trump’s support for a House Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown comes after his decision on Wednesday to tank Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s original stopgap funding bill, which was sharply criticized by the president-elect and Republican lawmakers over the inclusion of unrelated Democratic policy riders into the spending package.
The new 116-page stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), is a slimmed-down version of the former spending package, which totaled more than 1,500 pages. The new CR still includes a one-year extension of the farm bill and $110 billion in disaster aid for victims of Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Provisions in the former CR that gave lawmakers a pay…
