Washington – President Mike Johnson and the Republicans of the House of Representatives expressed confidence on Tuesday that they can promote a Stopgap financing bill and avoid a government closure at the end of the week.
Democratic leaders firmly oppose the six -month financing patch, launching Republicans for promoting a bill that had no part in the configuration. But the leaders of the Republican party dared the Democrats to vote against the bill and risk a closure.
“We will have the votes. Let’s pass the [continuing resolution]. We can do it on our own, ”Johnson told journalists after snuggling with base Republicans. “Democrats should do what is responsible, follow their own advice in each previous scenario and maintain the open government.”
The vote is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. If he deletes the Chamber, the Financing Bill would move to the Senate, where he would need 60 votes to break a democratic filibuster. And that is uncertain.
Money for the federal government is exhausted on Friday night.
Even if Johnson can approve the Financing Law, backed by President Donald Trump, the margin will be tight. Republicans have a tiny majority 218-214 in the Chamber, which means that Johnson can only allow a drop-out of the Republican Party if all members are present and voting. The conservative representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Has already promised to vote against him, which led Trump to threaten to “lead the position” to expel Massie in his 2026 primaries.
Any Democratic absence could give Johnson and the Republicans a little more of breathing space.
But Republicans do not want to take risks. Trump and his main assistants have been calling undecided republicans and urging them to support the financing bill, several sources told NBC News. And before the vote on Tuesday morning, Vice President JD Vance curled up with the Republicans of the House of Representatives in the Capitol, brought together support for the bill and urged them to stay together.
A positive signal for Johnson: the Freedom Freedom Caucus of the extreme right, which is often a thorn next to the leadership, has supported the Stopgap bill.
“I am 100% behind this continuous resolution,” president of Caucus, Andy Harris, Republican for M-MD, said Tuesday. “This is not the continuous resolution of his grandfather. This is a different type of spending invoice.”
The 99 pages bill is not a “clean” financing extension that generally maintains expenditure at existing levels. The bill of the Republican party slightly increases military spending and also requires some cuts in non -defensive discretionary money, frustrating the Democrats. In addition to that, the Democrats said, the Republicans structured the bill to remove control from Congress to finance certain federal programs and deliver to the Trump administration more flexibility on how to spend money.
The Democrats also want railings about Trump and the attempts of the multimillion -dollar advisor Elon Musk to reduce or freeze some federal expenses.
“This project of republican and reckless republican spending law cannot protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which we know are in the Republican Court Block,” said the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.Y., arguing that the Financing Law will lay the bases for the deepest expenses of expenses in a deeper expenses in a reconciliation package future. “It represents devastating cuts in an attack against older people, families and veterans. We cannot support this bill.”
In the Senate, Republicans have a majority of 53-47. With Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Saying that he will vote against the bill, at least eight Democrats would need to vote for it to approve.
Several Democrats say they are looking to see what happens in the camera vote before announcing their position.
“I have to wait to see the impact it has on Arizona,” Senator Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, said Tuesday.
Senator Angus King, an independent of Maine who is hunted with the Democrats, said Tuesday that he worried that the Trump administration could try to make a closure as painful as possible. It is also undecided in the bill.
“That is one of the things we have to consider. We are dealing with people, many of whom, I suspect, they think a closure would be good,” said King, “and could prolong it and use it to expand the president’s power even beyond what they are already considering … this is not normal.”
Senator Andy Kim, Dn.J., also maintained his dry dust.
“I have not left publicly at this point, just because I want to see what the camera does,” he said, aligning with the main Democratic appropriators who want an extension of one month to negotiate a new financing agreement. “I still hope there is space for the extension of 30 days,” Kim said.
Ryan noble, Rebecca Kaplan, Frank Thorp v, Melanie Zanona, Julie Tsirkin, Syedah Asghar and Kate Santaliz contributed.
