Speaker Johnson defends short-term spending patch as clock ticks toward shutdown https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/121824_congress_spending/speaker-johnson-defends-short-term-spending-patch-as-clock-ticks-toward-shutdown/
Facing complaints about an end-of-year budget extension that includes additional funding for disaster relief and farm aid, the House speaker Mike Johnson argued that the measure would merely keep the government afloat into the new year.
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