Conservatives furious at Johnson for waiving GOP's 72-hour rule on $1.2T government funding bill

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GOP hardliners are furious that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appears poised to jettison the House GOP Conference’s rule on giving lawmakers 72 hours to review bill text before having to vote on it.

Congressional leaders released their 1,012-page, $1.2 trillion spending package just after 3 a.m. ET on Thursday, less than 48 hours before the government funding deadline at midnight on Friday.

Two sources told Fox News Digital that they expect Johnson to hold the vote sometime on Friday. The speaker himself alluded to waiving the 72-hour rule, telling reporters on Wednesday afternoon that it was "not sacred."

It’s prompted a furious backlash from members on his right flank. Many of those same members have been calling for Johnson to leverage a government shutdown to extract conservative policy concessions from the Democrat-controlled Senate and White House.

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"Would anybody do this for a car, for a house, for a toaster for that matter? It’s insanity at its height, and it's just a further deterioration of this country if we signed, if we pass this bill just because of the threat of a shutdown," Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News