Lawmakers “may take a day” to release text on emergency spending bill

Details surrounding the emergency spending bill are expected to be delayed and may “fade a day” as a deadline to avoid a the government shutdown is coming.

Lawmakers were expected to share the text of an emergency spending bill to avert a government shutdown and address disaster relief on Sunday, but Fox News was told the text “may pass a day”.

It comes like home and Senate lawmakers negotiating how big the disaster aid package should be and whether it should be attached to a year-end federal funding bill that is critical to averting a partial government shutdown during the holiday season holidays

This could pose a problem because government funding expires at 11:59:59 PM on Friday. Pushing that back means the House may not be able to process the bill until the end of the week.

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Damage from Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. (National Weather Service)

It also notes that it doesn’t take much for the Senate to slow things down if senators ask for time.

The House has a so-called “three-day rule” that requires the text to be published for three days before the debate and vote. However, waiting until tomorrow means the House may not consider the bill until Thursday or Friday, the latest deadline.

Fox News is told there is no stoppage in government funding until mid-March. or the disaster package for Hurricanes Helene, Milton, wildfires in Maui, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and tornadoes in the Midwest, but that there is a problem with agricultural supplies “and other things important to the leaders of both sides.”

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President Biden wrote to President Mike Johnson about disaster relief after Helene and Milton. (Getty Images)

A source declined to comment when asked by Fox if there was an effort to include last-minute provisions in the overall measure for Syria or the drones.

In early October, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News Digital that Helene would likely be “one of the the most expensive storms than the country has ever met.”

The Biden administration has requested more than $100 billion in disaster relief funding after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling on Republican leaders to reject President Biden’s request for disaster aid.

President Biden, accompanied by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (R), gives an update on the government’s response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 11, 2024 in Washington, d.c.

The group is calling for a reduced package covering what is “absolutely necessary”, to be offset by spending cuts elsewhere.

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“Congress should not pass a $100 billion supplemental disaster funding bill, which Democrats will use to shore up their own unrelated priorities, in the waning days of Democratic control in Washington just before Republicans take control of the White House and both chambers,” he said. The House Freedom Caucus statement was read.

“The House should consider only what is absolutely necessary at this time to provide critical relief to hurricane victims and farmers, and pay for it with offsets from wasted spending elsewhere in government, and then wait for President Trump to take over to better manage disaster relief.”

Failure to pass new spending through appropriations bills or a stopgap measure could result in a partial government shutdown before Christmas.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.