Johnson Promises House Won’t Take Up Omnibus Bill in December

‘We loathe [continuing resolutions] as much as anyone,’ the House speaker said. ‘But this is the situation that the Senate Democrat leadership put us in.’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at a news conference after a House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol on Sept. 10, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed on Sept. 24 that Republicans wouldn’t take up an omnibus funding bill later this year.

“We have broken the Christmas omni,” Johnson said during a leadership press conference, referencing the Washington tradition of pushing all government funding off until the end of the year and passing it as a single, massive package called an omnibus, usually in December. “I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition.”