Speaker Johnson and Democrats Reach Funding Level Agreement, Though Conservatives in the House Could Still Revolt
‘We keep spending more money we don’t have,’ says one budget hawk in the House.

Speaker Johnson and Democratic leaders have reached an agreement on funding levels for the coming year, setting up a potential showdown between Republican leadership and its constantly dissatisfied right flank in the House. The government is due to shut down partially on January 19 if the negotiated funding levels cannot be passed before then.
The total budget number reached was $1.59 trillion — the number agreed to by both Speaker McCarthy and the White House during the debt ceiling negotiations in May 2023. “That includes $886 billion for defense and $704 billion for nondefense,” Mr. Johnson wrote in a letter to his colleagues.
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