Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is glad the Senate finally managed to break through its weeks-long standoff on the government shutdown, he told Fox News Digital on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
‘It’s a great development. It’s long overdue. It vindicates our position in this all along,’ the House leader said.<\/p>\n
He added that he would have ‘a lot more to say at a press conference this morning.’<\/p>\n
Asked how soon the House would return to session, Johnson said, ‘Immediately.’<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘We’re going to get everybody back on a 36-hour notice, so it’ll be happening early this week,’ Johnson said.<\/p>\n
The House has not been in session since Sept. 19, when lawmakers there first passed a bill to avert a shutdown by extending current federal funding levels through Nov. 21. Democrats rejected that deal, however, kicking off weeks of a worsening impasse where millions of Americans’ federal benefits and air travel were put at risk.<\/p>\n
Eight Senate Democrats joined all but one Senate Republican in breaking a filibuster to advance an updated government funding deal late on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It came on Day 40 of the government shutdown \u2014 which already holds the record for being the longest shutdown in U.S. history.<\/p>\n
Terms of the deal include a new extension of fiscal year (FY) 2025 federal funding levels through Jan. 30, in order to give congressional negotiators more time to strike a longer-term deal on FY 2026 spending.<\/p>\n
It would also give lawmakers some headway with that mission, advancing legislation to fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration; the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction; and the legislative branch.<\/p>\n
They are three of 12 individual bills that are meant to make up Congress’ annual appropriations, paired into a vehicle called a ‘minibus.’<\/p>\n
In a victory for Democrats, the deal would also reverse federal layoffs conducted by the Trump administration in October, with those workers getting paid for the time they were off.<\/p>\n
It also guarantees Senate Democrats a vote on legislation extending Obamacare subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which are set to expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n
Extending the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, formally called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was a key ask for Democrats in the weeks-long standoff.<\/p>\n
No such guarantee was made in the House, however, so Democrats effectively folded on their key demand in order to end the shutdown \u2014 a move that infuriated progressives in Congress.<\/p>\n
‘Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in a video he posted Sunday night. ‘And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.’<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., also announced his opposition over the lack of concrete movement on Obamacare.<\/p>\n
‘We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,’ he said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Several Republicans also pointed out the final deal was not dissimilar to what Senate GOP leaders had been offering Democrats for weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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