WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed on Sept. 24 that Republicans wouldn’t take up an omnibus funding bill later this year.
“We have broken the Christmas omni,” Johnson said during a leadership press conference, referencing the Washington tradition of pushing all government funding off until the end of the year and passing it as a single, massive package called an omnibus, usually in December. “I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition.”
Last year, Republicans were forced to push through a series of short-term funding extensions, called “continuing resolutions,” before ultimately wrapping funding up in March 2024 through the passage of “minibus” bills that included six appropriations bills in two legislative packages….