Here’s What’s in the Government Funding Deal

Congress has only two days left to extend government funding beyond its Dec. 20 expiration date and sidestep a shutdown. With Republicans slated to take control of Congress and the White House in January, lawmakers were expected to push major spending negotiations into the new year. That’s why the mammoth 1,547-page spending bill House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) unveiled on Dec. 17 took some by surprise. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was not one of those people. “People call me ‘NostraThomas’ for accurately predicting @SpeakerJohnson would use the Christmas recess to force a massive spending bill through Congress,” Massie noted in a social media post on X....