Negotiators are working to finalize the text of the continuing resolution, which must be passed before midnight on Friday, or federal funding will lapse for a slew of government agencies. However, several GOP lawmakers are upset with the details they have seen, which include billions of dollars in additional funding for unrelated policies on trade, healthcare, and more. 

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“It’s a total dumpster fire,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) said. “This is why I ran for Congress, to try to stop this. Sadly, this is happening again.” 

The funding bill, which has yet to be finalized, is set to extend current government funding levels until March 14. Although complete details are not known, the continuing resolution is expected to include billions of dollars in disaster relief to respond to hurricanes Helene and Milton, as well as economic assistance for farmers. 

As a result, many conservative lawmakers are criticizing Johnson for what they call an omnibus spending bill in disguise — a term for a package of costly appropriations bills that the speaker has vowed not to ram through.

Lawmakers pointed to the roughly $10 billion in farmers’ assistance that is expected to be included in the bill as an effort to keep the agriculture industry afloat as Congress continues to hammer out its annual Farm Bill.

“Farmers are being dangled. Americans that suffered through natural disasters, they’re being dangled with disaster relief. And I think that’s incredibly unfair,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told reporters. “If this is going to turn into a three-month omnibus basically, then why aren’t we doing the heavy lifting on the upcoming debt ceiling situations that we have to deal with in March?”

The speaker pushed back on characterizations that the funding bill is similar to the typical Christmas omnibus, arguing it is a clean extension that includes necessary aid. 

“This is a small CR that we had to add things to that were out of our control. We’ve got manmade disasters,” Johnson said. “I wish it weren’t necessary. I wish we hadn’t had record hurricanes in the fall. And I wish our farmers were not in a bind so much that predators are not able to lend to them.”

But while some lawmakers are upset with the bill’s contents, most are upset with the lack of information about the details in the three-month CR just days before lawmakers are supposed to vote on it. 

“Same crap we already knew,” one House Republican said of the briefing Johnson gave on Tuesday morning. “No text. No timeline.”

It’s not clear when the legislative text will be published, but Johnson said he expects it sometime Tuesday. That would begin the 72-hour window Republicans require for lawmakers to review its contents before bringing it to the floor for a vote. 

If Johnson adheres to that 72-hour time period, which he says he intends to do, that would tee the bill up for a vote sometime Friday — just hours before the shutdown deadline at midnight. The bill would then need to go through the Senate and arrive on President Joe Biden’s desk to avoid a lapse in federal funding. 

Johnson committed to Republicans behind closed doors on Tuesday that he would stick to the 72-hour rule, but not all lawmakers seem convinced, with one Republican telling the Washington Examiner the speaker “clearly is OK if we don’t.”

Johnson also told reporters he wants to advance the CR through regular order and pass it through the House Rules Committee rather than bringing it up under suspension and relying on Democrats to move it across the finish line. However, that could be easier said than done, as some conservatives on the powerful Rules Committee have indicated opposition to the spending bill.