Washington (AP) – Republicans in the House of Representatives revealed a Bill spending On Saturday, it would keep federal agencies funded until September 30, moving forward with a volatile strategy that appears to be a great confrontation with the Democrats around the vicinity of government spending.
The 99 -page law will provide a slight batch of defense programs while reducing Nondepense programs without levels of 2024 in the budget. This approach is likely not supported for most Democrats who have long insisted on the movement of defense and non -defensive spending in the same direction.
Congress must behave by midnight on Friday to avoid the closure of the partial government.
Council Chairman Mike Johnson, R does not. It is also betting that Republicans can muscle legislation through the House of Representatives to a large extent.
Usually, when it comes to maintaining the government completely open to business, Republicans had to work with Democrats to formulate a scale of the two parties that both sides could support. This is because Republicans always lack votes to pass the spending laws on their own.
Decally, the strategy has support President Donald TrumpWho showed the ability so far during his term to hold Republicans in the classroom.
Trump praised the draft law, as he posted on his social reality platform, which Republicans must “stay united – no opposition – is fighting for another day when the timing is true.”
“The great things are coming for America, and I ask all of you to give us a few months to get to September so that we can continue to put the” financial house “in the country.
Republican leadership staff in the House of Representatives set the features of this procedure, saying that it will allow about $ 892.5 billion in defensive spending and about $ 708 billion in inaccurate spending. The assistants said that defensive spending is slightly higher than the level of the previous year, but the inaccurate spending was about 13 billion dollars less than last year.
This procedure will not also include the financing that individual lawmakers demand for thousands of community projects throughout the country, and are often referred to as allocations.
But the Republicans indicated that it would provide the largest wage increase for the novice soldiers who have been recruited more than 40 years ago, and it included an additional $ 500 million for the food aid program for women, infants and young children.
The draft law does not cover the majority of government spending, including social security and medical care. Funding these two programs on the automatic pilot and not reviewing it regularly by Congress. However, the Democratic Command issued a statement on Saturday saying that they are concerned, the draft law does not take steps to protect these programs and medicaid, which Republicans are looking forward to to help pay the costs of tax cuts that were passed in Trump’s first state.
“No purity,” said three Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives, including MP Hakim Jeffrez.
The most important Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, Representative at Connecticut Rosa Deloro and Senator Patti Murray, both issued statements erupted.
Murray said the legislation “will give Donald Trump and Eileon Musk more power over federal spending – and more power to choose the winners and losers, threatening families in both blue and red.”
Senator Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate Credit Committee, said the focus should be on preventing closure because closure has negative consequences throughout the government.
“They require some basic government employees, such as border patrol clients, our military and coastal guards, TSA and air traffic controllers, to submit a work report without any certainty about the date of obtaining their next salary,” Collins said. “We cannot allow this to happen.”
Trump appears to have an effect. Some conservatives who have never voted in favor of the continuous decisions have expressed a lot of openness to one last week.
MP Ralph Norman says, RS.C. He never voted in favor of a continuous decision, what legislators often call CR, but on board Johnson’s effort. He says he has confidence in Trump and Ministry of Governmental efficiencyLed by Elon Musk, to make a change in the debts of the nation.
“I don’t like CRS,” Norman said. “But what is the alternative? Negotiating with the Democrats? No.”
“Six months spending to go to determine more discounts? Someone told me how it is not a victory in Washington.”
Republicans also hope to allow them to resolve this year’s spending by devoting their full attention to extending Trump’s tax cuts and raising the nation’s debt to avoid disastrous federal payment.
Democratic leaders warn that the decision to move forward without consulting them increases the possibility of closure. One of their biggest fears is the flexibility that the legislation will give the Trump administration to spend.
The democratic leadership in both chambers confirmed that the Republicans have the majority and are responsible for financing government. They said that any legislation should have inputs from both sides.
“We have always thought that the only solution is the solution from the two parties, regardless of what,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer from New York.
Trump meets Republicans in the House of Representatives in an attempt to win their votes over the legislation. Republicans have a majority of 218-214 in the House of Representatives, so if all legislators vote, they can bear only one split if Democrats unite in the opposition. Mathematics becomes more difficult in the Senate, as at least seven Democrats will have to vote in favor of legislation to overcome filbuster. This assumes that all 53 Republicans vote in their favor.
