Washington – A confrontation on how to avoid a government closure intensified on Monday when President Donald Trump asked Republicans to write a fund of financing law on their own and eliminate the Democrats from the process.
But any financing bill, including a stopgap to buy more time, requires 60 votes to approve the Senate, where Republicans control 53 seats and, therefore, need at least seven democratic votes.
Democratic leaders say that Republicans are following Trump’s wishes and are refusing to negotiate, making a more probable closure. The Congress has until 11:59 pm on September 30 to find a solution or the government will close.
“Our position remains this: we want to maintain the open government by participating in a bipartisan negotiation where we can address some of the serious damage that Donald Trump has caused to our medical care system and help the Americans with the cost of living,” said Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., on the floor on Monday night.
Trump recently said in “Fox and Friends” that Republicans should not “bother” with the Democrats and that “we have to obtain republican votes, that is all”, what Schumer condemned.
“When Donald Trump said in Fox News that Republicans do not even bother the Democrats, then he is responsible for making a closure more likely,” he said. “This afternoon he doubled again, publishing online that Republicans should do so only in their partisan upbringing [continuing resolution]instead of committing to the Democrats to maintain the open government. “
Schumer argued that if there is a closure, Trump’s statement and republican actions would make them responsible. “If one side refuses to negotiate, they are the ones that cause closure,” he said.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., said that the Congress controlled by the Republicans will try to approve a seven -week financing bill at the existing expenditure levels to give the parts more time to negotiate. Democrats should rise on board, he said, to avoid a span of financing.
“We will present a clean resolution to ensure that there is no reason for Democrats to oppose this bill and delay approval,” Thune said Monday. “And my hope would be that we could do this as soon as this week and then continue the bipartisan work in allocation invoices.”
“But I have some concerns,” he added. “Because incredible as it may seem, the Democrats seem to be looking to close the government.”
Democrats have not established a specific set of demands that win their votes, in addition to emphasizing that they want changes in the medical care system. The party is divided over how aggressive it is, and some press by an extension of Obamacare subsidies expired and others saying that they should also demand a reversal of Trump’s Medicaid cuts in their “great and beautiful bill.” And below the fair there is a reluctance by some Democrats to allow a closure, which would be economically harmful.
The first step would be to approve a short -term financing bill in the Chamber, where Republicans can pay only two defections mostly thin before democratic support requires. And may need multiple Democrats to vote Aye; Several legislators of the Republican party already say that they oppose any draft short -term financing law, known as a continuous or “CR” resolution, including the representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Warren Davidson de Ohio.
“This CR would be a copy of Uniparty’s expense bill under Self -Biden,” Massie wrote in X. “I did not vote for those expense priorities when Biden was president and I will not vote for them now.”
Davidson said in X: “I already hated the thought and approaches to status quo (soft incrementalism in the best case), so I am in another CR in the sake of more government.”
Greene said she would betray Trump. “I can’t wait to see how to vote for the CR becomes a Trump loyalty test,” he wrote in X. “When in all real reality, it is a disloyalty to him when approved a biden policy loaded with omnibus.”
Others are also skeptical.
“He will have problems,” said representative Andy Harris, R-MD., Said the president of Caucus de la Libertad Hard of the right, on a seven-week Stopgap bill at existing expenditure levels.
The representative Tim Burchett, R-Ten., He told NBC News: “I would like the leadership to come to talk to us. I see where they have talked about how we have reduced this treatment. Well, they have not made an agreement with the membership. And I know four votes ‘no’ on the Republican side at this time.”
Trump asked the Republican Party of the House of Representatives to join and support the measure.
“In times like these, Republicans have to stay united to fight the Democratic demands of the radical left, and vote ‘Yes!’ In both votes necessary to approve a clean CR this week outside the House of Representatives, ”Trump wrote in Truth Social.
If the legislation approves the Chamber, where it needs a simple majority, it will establish a confrontation in the Senate that faces the Republicans against the Democratic minority. Until now, only a Democrat has said that he will support a continuous resolution: John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
“I’ve always had the same hard rule: you never turn off the government … or maintain the maintenance of the open government as a hostage,” Fetterman told NBC News.
He said “completely” also supports the extension of ACA financing.
“That should be something independent, that’s not like ‘I’m going to close our government,'” he said. “It is a trap. It is the incorrect thing … Our nation does not need more chaos at this time to close to the government. That is the incorrect answer … it is dangerous at this time.”
But Senator Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, said he is very skeptical of a short-term law project unless he addresses medical care costs.
“I would have to listen to some very, very good reasons, what you will produce,” he said in an interview. “And how it will contribute to a bipartisan solution that will demolish the premiums of the Americans.”
