On Sunday, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson emphasized his plan to pass a ‘clean’ stopgap funding measure to ensure federal agencies remain operational at current spending levels until September, delaying proposed cuts for the next fiscal year. Johnson’s objective is to avoid the incorporation of unpopular cuts identified by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency into the continuing resolution intended to prevent a partial government shutdown as current funding is set to expire on March 14.
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