House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s move to advance a two-part continuing resolution on Thursday drew mixed reviews from GOP members who are frustrated with infighting as they stared down a partial government shutdown.
Hard-line conservatives are reserving any animosity toward Johnson, appearing to come to terms with the fact that they won’t achieve their desired one-year stopgap bill. Instead, the deadline for the first six appropriations bills will be extended until March 8, and the remaining six will be moved to March 22.
The first six appropriations bills are expected to be advanced as a package and enacted by the first date, according to congressional leaders, despite pushback from some conservatives that the bills must be voted on one by one.
Other members argued that “kicking this can
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