Washington-the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican for Saturday, announced a short-term financing bill that would avoid a closure at the end of next week and keep the government at the end of September.
Johnson has said that he will bring the project of financing to the floor for a vote earlier next week, probably on Tuesday, before the money ends on Friday night. It is not clear that you have the votes to approve any of the cameras, since it was not negotiated with the Democrats, so it is an important proof for the new Republican triumph in a mandatory law of the law of passage that requires a bipartisan support to become law.
President Donald Trump has supported Johnson’s approach and said he will sign the bill if he reaches his desk, which would avoid a closure of less than two months in his mandate.
“All Republicans should vote (please!) Yes next week,” Trump wrote in a social publication of the truth shortly after the bill was published. “I ask everyone to give us a few months to get to September so that we can continue to put in order the” financial house “of the country. Democrats will do everything possible to close our government, and we cannot let that happen.”
Continuous resolution, or CR, includes an increase in defense spending while reducing non -defensive discretionary expenditure. It does not expand the budget for additional emergency funds, disaster designations or community projects, also known as assignments.
“There is no Christmas tree effect here,” said a republican leadership staff of the House of Representatives. “It is just what we need to finance the government and allow that to happen.”
The representative Rosa Delauro, D-Conn., The main Democrat in the Assignment Committee, criticized the legislation within the moments of her release on Saturday.
“I firmly oppose this continuous resolution of the whole year, which is a capture of power for the White House and also allows the unmoved billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump to rob the US people,” he said. “By essentially closing the book on negotiations for financing invoices throughout the year that help the middle class and protect our national security, my colleagues on the other side of the corridor have given their power to an unzhined billionaire.”
Even before the release of the bill, democratic leaders of the House of Representatives came out in opposition to Johnson’s plan, warning that emerging legislation could lead to expenses of expenses to areas such as medical attention, nutritional assistance and veteran benefits.
The abyss between the two parties in the continuous resolution raises the possibilities of a closure. If the Democrats of the House of Representatives are unified against the bill, it is not clear if Johnson and the Republicans could muscle through the Chamber in a vote of the party line, as they did with the budget resolution last month.
With a majority of 218-214 of the wafer, only two republican defections could derail the measure. And the representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., A vocal critic of Johnson, has already promised to vote.
“It is obviously a challenge for us,” said representative August Pfluger, Republican of Texas, president of the Conservative Republican Study Committee, after organizing a meeting on funds with key republicans of the Chamber and the Senate.
If Johnson can promote the Stopgap bill through his camera next week, all eyes would be in the Senate Democrats. Republicans have an advantage of 53-47 there, so the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., would need to ensure seven democratic votes to reach the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster.
Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., Vice President of the Assignments Committee, set the bill, describing it from a “continuous resolution of the fund of funds that would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over federal expenditure, and more power to choose winners and losers, which threatens families in the blue and red states.”
None of the parties is pressing for a closure, but they continue to defer in how to avoid one. For Republicans, you could distract them and delay them from approving a reconciliation package necessary to address Trump’s agenda on border safety, energy and tax cuts. And the Democrats have demanded railings on the president’s power on the expense led by Congress, to which the Republican party opposes.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have been criticizing Trump, their multi -million dollar advisor Musk and the Republicans of Congress for reducing federal expenditure and saying goodbye to thousands of federal workers. And in a letter to colleagues on Friday, Democratic leaders warned that a CR could impose more cuts that they called “not acceptable.”
But a closure would exceed millions of federal workers in each part of the country.
