EXCERPT:
JOHNSON: “Here’s what’s happened. You know, the House and Senate appropriators worked very well together bicameral, bipartisan, committee-led process. Especially after the 43-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history last fall. No one wanted to put that pain on the American people again — the Democrats forced it. We were insistent that we would not allow that to happen. But, you know, I tip my hat to everybody, appropriators in both parties, who got this together. After the Senate acted over the weekend, we will now have 11 of 12 separate appropriations bills approved by both chambers. Because they modified our package, they sent it over a little differently, which means we’ve got to address the bills again. So they’re going to separate the Department of Homeland Security bill. Our intention is by Tuesday to fund all agencies of the federal government except for that one. And then we’ll have two weeks of good-faith negotiations to figure it out.”