House Republicans unveiled on Saturday A six -month stopgap government funding schemeIt tries to cut the Nondefense programs while boosting the funds for defense.
The GOP before the Shutdown Deadline of Friday, from the Trump-Employed Strategy drawn to Democrats’ work. The rollout of the bill has begun crucial drags to Lock support for the leadership.
The scheme tries to fund the government by September. While it is considered a constant resolution (CR), the Republican says that the 99-Pana bill is below the bilateral funds of its funds, as part of a bilateral fund deal last year, as leadership faced a rising pressure from its right part to stop the government’s costs.
The Republicans say the scheme will allow a moderate increase in defense funds of about $ 6 billion at the level of fiscal year 2024, though below the previous levels agreed in 2023 under a bilateral cost-limit deal for the financial year 2025. Major changes.
The bill will also provide funds to the already authorized salary increase for the junior registered military personnel.
The Republicans say the stopgap measure will increase funds for veterinary healthcare and housing, and will fund the WIC program. But overall funds for non-defense programs will decrease by about $ 13 billion compared to the level of fiscal year 2024. The Republican says the bill will also reflect the request of the IRS fund.
House GOP -led employees said before the introduction that the Bill was composed by the White House for coordination coordination. GOP Hardliners, who have long opposed the CRS, have indicated that they are open to supporting the Trump -backed strategy.
“House and Senate have kept with very good funds bill (‘CR’), under the circumstances! All Republicans should vote (please!) Yes next week. “After the introduction of the bill, Trump posted on Truth Social.
“When the time is right, we will not fight the next day – one has to fight. Very important. Make America great again! “He said.
However, the Democrats have come out in strong opposition to the strategy.
Top Democrat of the House Appolation Committee, Rap. Rosa Delaaro (C Conn), on Saturday, criticized the fund’s plan, in which the move was “a power grab for the White House and allowed more billionaire Alon Musk and President Trump to steal from the American people.”
He wrote on Social Platform X, “On October 1, they cut $ 23 billion from their own bills,” he wrote, “Republican toxic exposures funds (to care for burning peats, agent orange and other toxic substances). You can’t make this material.”
Government programs have been running on Stoppag APP since the beginning of FY 2025. But Democratic negotiators raised concerns about potential consequences that by the end of the financial year, CR defense programs and military effectiveness, health care costs, Wildland Fighters, Veterans Services and Food Assistance Programs could be improved.
At the same time, their Republican counterparts have tried to blame the Democrats at Stoppug APP, while quoting their pressure to ensure that the administration will spend money according to the direction – which GOP. Leaders have pen as a nonstarter.
In the last Congress, due to the thin majority of the Republican, the GOP to pass the funds in the house. Democratic support was key to leadership. And given that the control of the Home GOP has only been compressed in the current Congress, taking the Republican leadership risk to advance a strategy as a go-it-alone approach, which deals with bilateral expenses struck in 2023.
Home Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees (DNY) said this week that the Republican fund is on his own to find votes to pass the bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) told reporters earlier this week that he thought that the Republican could “pass it with party lines”, but he added that he believed that “every Democrat” should vote for the law.
But if all Democrats vote “no”, then GOP to pass the bill. Leadership will require unknown in their conference. And on Thursday, a small number of hardline Rs SERV Chichuto indicated that they were still not sold on a strategy, which some Republicans will be arrested by the Lock Lock.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arrie.) Told reporters on Thursday, “I am afraid of it,” when the stop-running APP was brought to the floor since September, it was asked how it would vote.
“I talked to the President,” Rap. Tim Burchet (R-Ten) also said on Thursday, after noting that he had not yet said “on the board” with the plan. “I just got some questions. Is she really getting clean? Is the allocation going to add a lot of updates to the Pentagon? “
Some rigorous Conservatives warned in front of the release that their support for the stopg APP plan could be at risk based on the Tag Tag, while pressing for SE Fats for any possible -D -S ns, including areas such as defense.
At the same time, Defense Hawks has alarmed how to rent in recent weeks under the scheme of defense programs.
“The cost of preventing war pale compared to the cost of fighting. If the Congress is not ready to invest in a hindrance today, then discussions on China’s urgent urgency to China’s ‘Passing Threat’, “Senate Republican leader Mitch Mic Kakel (KY) wrote in an Op-ed of Washington Shington Post.
The House Republican is expected to take a quick action on the law, keeping an eye on the floor vote on the move with Tuesday.
Update at 2:02 pm
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