Trump blindsides Senate Republicans by endorsing rival House budget plan | Trump administration
Donald Trump has directed the budget of the Republican budgets in the Senate by supporting the competitive parliament option, leaving the leaders of the Republican Party scrambling to save their agenda just weeks before the possible government closed.
The intervention of the sudden president came just hours after the Senate Republicans He moved to pay their proposal consisting of two tracks, as he instead announced that he wanted a “beautiful, beautiful draft law” through the reconciliation process at home.
“Unlike the Lindsey Graham version of the very important legislation that is currently being discussed, the decision of the House of Representatives implement the full first agenda of America,” Trump has published on the social truth.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thun, admitted that he was remotely. He told reporters after the emergency leadership meeting on Wednesday.
The announcement of Republicans in the Senate is forced to review their carefully planned agenda this week on a thinner package aimed at covering the provisions of defense, border security and energy.
The timing is already narrow, because Congress decreases March 14 deadline To pass the bill that would avoid closing, forcing hundreds of thousands of federal employees to go without pay. Although Republicans control both rooms, the majority is very thin, they will need democratic sounds to pass any funding procedure.
In the Senate, where Republicans operate 53 seats, at least 60 votes are needed to overcome filbuster. Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, who works with a small majority 218-215, is facing similar mathematics problems and internal drama.
Johnson He immediately claimed victory On Trump’s support for the parliament’s plan, saying that Republicans in the House of Representatives “are working to provide President Trump’s full agenda – not only a small part of it.”
But his proposal faces resistance from Republicans who are concerned about the proposed merits of the merits – cut off Trump himself On Tuesday, Fox News refusedSay “Medicare, Medicaid – None of these things will be touched.
“If a front bill is placed, which gives courage the benefits that my neighbors depend on, I will not vote for him,” said Republican Congress member Rob Presnan.
The White House, Vice President JD Vance, sent to meet Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, in an attempt to soften the tensions as both rooms wrestle with how to strengthen the Trump agenda. But it is clear that it will be difficult to persuade some members of the Senate.
“I am not sure [the House budget could] He passed the House He told reporters.
The House of Representatives is still in a break until next week, leaving the Republicans of the Senate alone in Capitol Hill to draw their next step.
