Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., makes his way to a meeting with David Cameron, the United Kingdom’s secretary of state for foreign, commonwealth and development affairs, in the Capitol on Wednesday. But Johnson, R-La., is clearly trying to move in their direction, offering a figure in talks with top Democrats that’s well below their target for nondefense funding. That would mean cutting other spending by $110.5 billion if they wanted to include the entire Senate Democratic supplemental package unveiled Tuesday, for instance.Īlmost no one believes the Freedom Caucus position will win out. What’s more, they’re pushing Johnson to account for any emergency supplemental funding for the wars in Israel, Ukraine and other purposes within the total “capped” amount of $1.59 trillion for fiscal 2024. That would mean 9 percent cuts on average below current levels. Speaker Mike Johnson is taking a hard line in negotiations over final spending levels for fiscal 2024, imperiling odds of a deal on appropriations toplines that’s needed in the next week for lawmakers to have any chance of finishing full-year bills by deadlines early next year.ĭefense and security-related funding levels are largely locked in at $886.3 billion under the terms of last spring’s debt limit law and backed up by the annual defense authorization bill that’s nearing completion.īut under pressure from House Freedom Caucus-led conservatives, Johnson is seeking to hold nondefense funds below the $772.7 billion ceiling that negotiators agreed to in the debt limit law and associated “side deal” to boost spending through accounting maneuvers.įreedom Caucus and other hard-liners don’t want to go above $703.7 billion for domestic and foreign aid funds - the amount that’s actually written into the debt limit law.
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