GOP Rep. Grothman: House may pass 'three or four' separate bills to avert shutdown

"We don't yet know whether they're going to be voted on today or tomorrow," he said.

Published: December 20, 2024 11:53am

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman on Friday suggested that the House might pass a handful of separate bills to address key priorities and fund the government through March after the lower chamber failed to pass a single bill on Thursday.

"It looks like they're going to be three or four separate bills," he said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "We don't yet know whether they're going to be voted on today or tomorrow."

"The difference is, if they want to vote on suspension, which means it takes two thirds of the House to pass them, they'll be able to bring them to the floor today," he added. "If they want to have a more traditional roll call vote in which you only need half the votes, it's going to take something called the Rules Committee coming in, and we wouldn't be able to vote on that [until] tomorrow."

"I think there'll be a separate vote on the agriculture part of the bill. There'll be a separate vote on the disaster part of the bill. We're told there's going to be no vote on the debt extension, extent the extending of the debt limit, which is what President Trump wanted," he went on. "And then there'll be the traditional CR that'll go to march, or sometime like that. By that, I mean, we'll be keeping the government open till these March."

House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed on Friday that the House would vote that day on legislation to avert a shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline.

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