Congress Limps Into the New Year as Impeachment, Foreign Aid, and Government Funding Fights Loom
Fresh off completing the least productive legislative year since the Hoover Administration, the House and Senate are preparing to tackle historic issues before election season begins.
In early January, members of Congress will return to the nation’s capital with just days to go before the government runs out of money, threatening the credibility of House Republicans as capable of governance even as they push to impeach President Biden, hold Hunter Biden in contempt, and extract border security concessions from Senate Democrats.
The most pressing items on the agenda include two government funding packages that must be passed by January 19 and February 2 in order to avoid a government shutdown. Speaker Johnson previously battled with conservatives over topline funding levels, and given that the GOP now has only a two-seat majority following the expulsion of Congressman George Santos and the resignation of a former speaker, Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the math is going to get a lot harder for Mr. Johnson.
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