Republicans in the House of Representatives revealed on Saturday a measure to finance the government until September 30, which increased spending on the bold army and Democrats to oppose this and the risk of closing the government that will begin after midnight on Friday.
99 pages legislation It would slightly reduce spending in general from the levels of financing last year, but will increase the spending on the army by $ 6 billion, referring to the Republican defense hawks fears that stop Bentagon’s measures. It will not include any Fund for any allocating projects In the regions or countries of the legislators, approximately $ 13 billion provided, according to Congress assistants.
The draft law provides a slight batch of funding for migration and customs – an additional $ 485 million – but it gives the administration more flexibility in how the agency is spent. It also increases the funding of the federal program that provides free groceries for millions of women and low -income children, known as WIC, by about $ 500 million.
It was not clear whether the legislation could pass the Republican Congress. Mike Johnson spokesman will need to move in the bill through the majority of his very narrow home on Tuesday and have only two or two votes to spare them if Democrats are unanimously opposed. Pressure will quickly turn to the Senate if Republicans in the House of Representatives can approve the legislation, which raises the question of whether Democrats will install monitoring against the bill and lead to a closure.
While the Republicans in the Conservative House of Representatives have dug in the past and opposed the bills of spending, forcing Mr. Johnson to rely on Democrats to keep the government open, President Trump called on the Republicans to the union and pay this measure so that he and the Republicans in the Capitol Hill could.
Mr. Trump wrote on his social media website on Saturday: “The great things are coming for America, and I am asking you all to give us a few months to reach us until September so that we can continue to put the” financial house “in the country.
Soon, both senior Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate explained on Saturday that they were strongly opposed, saying that it would provide a lot of discretionary power of the Trump administration and the effort led by Elon Musk to reduce spending on federal programs significantly.
“I strongly oppose this continuous decision for the entire year, which is the seizure of power for the White House and also allows the billionaire that Illon Musk and President Trump have not been verified to theft from “By closing the negotiation book for the entire year financing bills that help the middle class and protect our national security, my colleagues handed over the other side of the corridor their strength to the unleashed billionaire.”
But Senator Susan Collins, Republican Maine and Chairman of the Senate Credit Committee, said that she was tending to support the legislation even though she preferred to pay new individual spending measures.
“Our focus should be on preventing the unnecessary and costly government closed on Friday, March 14th,” Ms. Collins said in a statement. “The government closure by its nature failed to judge effectively and has negative consequences throughout the government.”
She and the other leaders in the spending panels in Congress were in talks from the two parties in recent days aimed at finding a way to pass traditional spending bills, which would give Congress more saying how federal funds are spent and testing the Trump administration’s willingness to go to challenge legislators in spending cases.
But the time has run out of negotiations, and Mr. Johnson and administration officials made a decision that it would be in favor of the White House to freeze funding for this year and deal with any changes that could convince Republicans to accept the party’s votes mainly.
“The Congress – not Trump or Musk – must decide through the two -party accurate negotiations how to invest in our states and provinces – and whether the critical programs that support students, old warriors, families, and patients are funded or not,” Senator Batti Murray of Washington, the Supreme of the Senate Credit Committee, said in a statement.
The government has been working on a series of stops known as October 1, due to the failure to pass annual spending bills. The approach is not effective because it does not change spending on changes in circumstances.
This year will be the first time that the Pentagon has worked under a continuous decision for a year, and the Trump administration has requested additional flexibility to make adjustments to its military spending.
