Congress announces short-term spending deal after Johnson drops key MAGA demand
Raw StoryCongressional leaders on Sunday said they reached an agreement on legislation to fund the federal government for three more months, averting a shutdown and stoking right-wing ire and allegations that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson "caved" to Democrats by dropping a key demand by his far-right colleagues. "While I am pleased bipartisan negotiations quickly led to a government funding agreement free of cuts and poison pills, this same agreement could have been done two weeks ago," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement applauding the continuing resolution. David Frum, a commentator and former speechwriter for then-President George W. Bush, said on social media that Johnson "bested" former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee. MeidasTouch Network editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski said, "Just as I predicted, weak, feckless, and incompetent Mike Johnson has just surrendered again to the Democrats after Trump forced him into a public humiliation."
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