The House could vote as soon as Friday on the yet-to-be-unveiled final fiscal 2024 appropriations package, in a race to limit the damage of a brief funding lapse this weekend.
With legislative text not expected until Wednesday after a dust-up over Homeland Security Department funding, a brief funding gap appeared almost inevitable once a continuing resolution expires at midnight Friday. Even if the House can pass the package Friday, the Senate would need to take it up over the weekend in a best-case scenario.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told GOP lawmakers in a meeting Tuesday that he’d consider putting the measure on the floor Friday, people familiar with the discussions said. That timeline would require shortening the chamber’s standard 72-hour review period.
