Speaker Mike Johnson, addressing House Republicans behind closed doors just three weeks before the government is set to shut down, said he and other GOP leaders are waiting on direction from the White House for next steps on government funding.
In particular, appropriators are waiting on “anomaly” requests from President Donald Trump’s budget aides, Johnson said, according to three people in the room who were granted anonymity to describe the private remarks.
That’s a reference to departures from prior-year funding levels that would need to be embedded in a stopgap measure to address current spending needs.
Johnson was conspicuously silent on…
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