Continuing Resolution

President-elect Donald Trump faces a “big mess” in the aftermath of a spending bill passed to avoid a government shutdown.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that Republicans were “taking orders from the world’s richest man,” Elon Musk, regarding a failed continuing resolution (CR).

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered an early Christmas present to Democrats Friday night by extending spending levels overwhelmingly opposed by Republicans earlier this year.

CNN host Jake Tapper told Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that congressional Republicans are incapable of governing.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in uncharted waters and heading for the rocks.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) said Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus” that a government shutdown would benefit President-elect Donald Trump by causing President Joe Biden to preside over a “mess.”

Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) said Friday on Fox Business Channel’s “Mornings With Maria” that House Speaker Mike Johnson “dragged” President-elect Donald Trump into a government shutdown “circus.”

“We’ll cross that bridge” when we get there, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said when asked if he will support Johnson as Speaker.

House Republicans are going back to the drawing board after a deal negotiated Thursday failed decidedly just hours later.

The U.S. economy will barely notice if the federal government needs to shut down because funding authorization runs out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, December 21.

President-elect Donald Trump stepped in to provide a path to potentially avoid a government shutdown, just 24 hours after a deal negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) collapsed.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly canceled his speaking slot at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest.

The controversial continuing resolution is “classic D.C.,” and a government shutdown is possible, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said.

Republicans should not be afraid of a government shutdown and should reject the controversial 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) discusses the pork-laden continuing resolution (CR) spending bill that Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled just days before the Friday deadline to fund the government.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) floated Elon Musk on Thursday as the next speaker of the House.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Thursday faced the most serious threat to his position since 163 Democrats voted to save his gavel back in May.

Vice President-elect JD Vance revealed that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a “productive conversation” regarding a recently unveiled government funding bill, according to a report.

A U.S. Senator told Breitbart News on Wednesday evening that President-elect Donald Trump’s push to have the debt ceiling increased as part of a government funding deal this week “makes sense” from Trump’s perspective but warned it is unlikely Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer would agree to such a push.

Sen. Josh Hawley predicted on “The Alex Marlow Show” that every Senate Democrat “will vote yes” on the continuing resolution spending bill.

President-elect Donald Trump revealed that he is “totally against” the proposed continuing resolution (CR), which is weighed down with many unrelated and expensive provisions.

Sen. Josh Hawley said Speaker Johnson is threatening Trump’s agenda while doing nothing to help Americans poisoned by government nuclear radiation.

The spending bill negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is full of “excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics,” Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said following the release of the controversial measure.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) says that he will not support Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in the speakership vote in January following the monstrous spending bill released Tuesday evening.

Congressional leadership slipped a provision into the stopgap spending bill that would block or stymie investigations into Congress.

The recently unveiled government funding bill “full of pork” shows that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “weak, weak man,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said.

The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency that funds organizations that censor conservative media including Breitbart News.

The lame-duck continuing resolution unveiled just three days before a potential government shutdown strips a provision included in spending bills since 2009 to block automatic raises for Congress, effectively giving senators and House members a raise.

House leaders unveiled a 1,547-page continuing resolution — including at least tens of billions of dollars in additional goodies — just hours before a vote to keep the government open past the Friday deadline.

Government funding expires Friday at midnight, but congressional leaders are still finalizing an expanding compromise to punt the deadline and staple on hundreds of billions of dollars in unrelated additional spending.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are rushing through a three-month spending bill Wednesday in a whirlwind development that will send Congress home through the election.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is barreling forward with a Wednesday evening vote on a six-month spending bill despite its expected defeat.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told Senate Republicans to strip the SAVE Act from the government funding legislation once the House passes the bill, senior aides from two different GOP U.S. Senate offices who support the SAVE Act being part of government funding efforts told Breitbart News on Thursday.

House Republicans across the ideological spectrum oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap spending plan, putting the plan in peril.

A breakdown during negotiations on a government funding deal means that Congress may quickly find itself near a partial government shutdown.