Republicans split into strategies in limited days to prevent government shutdowns
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Before the next fiscal year begins on October 1, we are already brewing ways to avoid government closures.
By then, House members and Senators will need to enter into agreements for federal funding. And while that deadline is still a few weeks away, the Congress’ August break means that both chambers will only have 14 days during the session that will reach the agreement.
That’s not an easy feat, given that both House and Senate Republicans are working with the three-seat majority.
Meanwhile, the feasibility of short-term extensions of government funding levels in 2025 (2025) has already been excluded.
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The House and Senate only have 14 days left in sessions left before the government funding deadline. (Fox News digital photo illustration)
Some fiscal conservatives in the House have suggested that they could fall behind the full year CR. This is the idea that mainstream Republicans and defence hawks are bal.
“I think we should start a plan. Year-round CR“House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md. told reporters last week.
R-Mo is a member of a conservative group. “I’m sure I’ll be open to that,” Rep. Eric Burrison told Fox News Digital. But he added, “But in reality, CR is like surrender.”
R-Ariz. Others like Election MP Eli Crane of “I don’t like CRS, but I’ll see how it unfolds.”
However, one House GOP lawmaker who spoke with Fox News Digital under conditions of anonymity argued that it could have a dangerous effect. About military funding.
“That’s absolutely ridiculous,” the lawmaker said. “It destroys our defense. So if it’s an all-encompassing CR, it’s against everything they’ve said so far. But when did it stop the Free Caucus?”
The idea of expanding the level of government funding the previous year has traditionally been a dislike for Republicans, especially in the House of Representatives, when lawmakers tried to pass a 12-year, personal supply spending bill.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris said he will support CR all year round. (Getty Images)
But that hasn’t been accomplished for years. Republicans have worked for the president for months Donald Trump’s “Big and Beautiful” policy bill, GOP lawmakers acknowledge that they have precious time left.
Many of these lawmakers suggested that some kind of short-term CR would likely give them more time to reach the contract, avoiding a temporary shutdown.
“So we’re going to have to do something because it looks like the bills are struggling to move,” Rep. Lloyd Smucker told Fox News Digital. “And I think if you’re doing a CR that brings funding levels closer to where you are now, then a lot of the members of the meeting will support it.”
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A source close to the House Budget Committee told Fox News Digital that it believes the short-term CR is likely a scenario but has not mentioned the outlook for the year.
“We don’t know we’re there yet, but if that’s an available option, we can’t guarantee that we can afford a government shutdown, especially under full control, by Republicans.
Meanwhile, a small group of conservatives warns that they are dedicated to opposing all forms of CR.
Senate majority leader John Tune and House Speaker Mike Johnson must shepherd the two rooms towards agreement. (Getty Images)
“I’m not voting for the September 30 CR. That’s completely unacceptable,” Senator Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote in X last week. “I’m giving everyone enough notice.”
R-Ariz. Rep. Andy Biggs of the 201025 level was set under the Biden administration.
“Why do you want to do Biden’s policy and budget?” asked Biggs.
And many Senate Republicans scoffed at the idea of extending another government funding, let alone a year-long CR. Rather than continuing the state of last-minute government funding, most people want to actually give a shot in the budget-based process.
“I’m not interested in a year-long CR,” Senator Minecround told Fox News Digital. “I think Congress should be responsible for actually considering spending. I don’t think it’s appropriate to have a CR that is basically a continuation of the Biden era.”
The round and other approvers want to pass something that has not been achieved since the late 1990s. However, time is diminishing for lawmakers. The house is already on a break and the upper room may stick to part of August.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of R-Alaska claimed that the spending process, which has been largely bystanded for years due to the CRS, is still working, but warned that it could be undermined by another government funding extension or more retirement packages from the White House.
“I have the opportunity to be on the floor with my budget bill before I take a break in August,” she said. “So I refuse to say that spending is ‘very broken.’ ”
So far, the Senate Budget Committee has finished work on six fundraising bills and has overcome the key hurdles of the House fundraising bill for military construction last week. The House has passed two of the 12 individual budget bills, two already accounting for about half of discretionary funding.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of R-Alaska said the spending process was “not broken.” (JDRF’s Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
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Other Republicans likewise don’t want to see another funding extension, so they’ll focus on handing over Trump’s roughly $1.7 trillion budget he submitted to lawmakers earlier this year.
“Hopefully, you don’t need to go to CR, but once you get to CR, what I don’t want is what I did since I came here.
R-Kan. Senator Roger Marshall also liked to work on Trump’s budget, but lawmakers already believed he was “lagged behind the ball.”
“I would like to experience the usual orders so that all of these 12 buckets have their spending bills, all 2,400 line items on the floor and ensure that no one is obeying anywhere,” Marshall said. “I think that cuts out a lot of nonsense.”