Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
It seems that only a few weeks ago, there was a crisis in Capitol Hill, since legislators tried to avoid a government closure.
Well, you have a good memory. But you don’t have to have a long one. The reason is that a government financing drama developed in Washington just before last Christmas. President of the Mike Johnson house, R-La., Thought that he had forged an agreement that could approve the Chamber with a coalition of Democrats and Republicans. It would also pass through the Senate with Democrats who carry part of the load to overcome a filibuster.
Everything seemed good until the legislators saw the size of the invoice. President Trump, then elected president, intervened. He did too ELON ALMIZCLE and Vivek Ramasswamy.
And the bill was roasted.
Democrats are heading together on Trump address acrobatics
President Donald Trump helped obtain the bill of the Republicans of the House of Representatives on the line. (Getty images)
Legislators rushed to gather a thinning bill to avoid a closure of the Christmas government, and hit everything until mid -March.
Guess what?
It is mid -March.
Legislators could not solve a general expenses package to work until next fall. This occurred after the expenses plan that we are talking about now had to resolve the past autumn. In fact, many Republicans of the House of Representatives complained that legislators failed to advance the 12 bill of individual expenses for the book. The house has completed some. The Senate? None. That was under the administration of the leader of the majority of the Chuck Schumer Senate, DN.Y., when the Democrats directed the show last year. Zero bills under the new leader of the majority of Senate John Thune, RS.D., this year.
CNN stunned by the numbers of ‘shocking’ surveys that show public support for Dux expense cuts
Do not forget that Johnson seized the controversy in October 2023, promising to handle the invoices of assignments one by one. But reality was established. The circumstances forced Johnson to advance in multiple Stopgap spending packages, often with democratic help. Finally they financed the government by 2023 in April 2024.
This is the reason why government financing crises constantly become constantly.
Republicans of the House of Representatives published the text of a Provisional Expenditure bill during the weekend. Renew the financing numbers at the Biden level, but also makes some cuts to social spending programs and the budget for the city of Washington. However, there are small increases in pentagon financing. There are few democratic priorities reflected in the bill. However, the Republicans of the House of Representatives, who control the Chamber, demand that the Democrats join them to help approve the bill. Democratic votes may be necessary when Republicans have a thin majority. The representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., He already said he was a no unless he received “a wolf.”
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramasswamy (Getty images)
During an appearance in “Meet The Press” by NBC last week, Johnson said that Democrats should help because “government financing is always bipartisan. It must have partners on both sides of the hall to do it.”
Johnson has needed the Democrats to approve Government Financing Law since he assumed relief. In fact, Democrats may have saved Johnson’s relief last spring. There was a wink and wink that Democrats can try to cushion any attempt to expel him, especially because he was willing to support a plan to finance Ukraine.
And Johnson, together with his predecessor, the former president of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, faced criticisms of preparing bills to avoid government closures that needed the Democrats to approve.
“President Johnson has betrayed (our trust) by approving three CR to maintain the open government and then forcing us to approve, or vote in a two-part omnibus, the second is today,” said representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of G-GA., Last year.
She threatened to remove the speaker when a temporary spending measure arrived last year.
“This bill was basically a dream and a list of desires for the Democrats and for the White House. It was completely directed by Chuck Schumer, not our Republican President of the Chamber,” Greene added.
Representative Andy Biggs, Republican from Arizona, was one of the eight members of the Republican party who voted to eliminate McCarthy as a speaker in 2023. Throughout that summer, Biggs criticized McCarthy for how he handled expense invoices and a measure to avoid a collision with the debt roof.
“The speaker formed a coalition with Democrats to obtain a national debt of $ 4 billion of $ 4. and I am still worried because he has not repudiated that coalition,” Biggs said in June 2023.
Former representative Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., He is responsible for triggering the resolution that led to the disappearance of McCarthy. The transgression of McCarthy? After the Chamber tripped to approve its own expenses package before a government financing deadline in September 2023, McCarthy put a clean expenditure measure on the floor that passed with democratic help. McCarthy was out of the door four days later.
Former representative Matt Gaetz is responsible for triggering the resolution that led to the expulsion of McCarthy. (Reuters)
“We are going to force him to a monogamous relationship with one or the other,” Gaetz said at that time.
Florida’s Republican accused McCarthy to jump “in the back seat” with the leader of the Hakeem Jeffries House of Representatives, DN.Y.
So now the Republicans of the Chamber have created a bill that appeals to the Republicans. And they expect Democrats to help them support him.
“The threat of the closure is in them at that time. Therefore, it is better to go on board,” said representative Jake Ellzey, Texas Republican.
Ellzey pointed out that if all Senate Republicans support the package, it would correspond to at least seven Senate Democrats help break a filibuster to advance the plan. Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate. But 60 years are necessary to overcome a filibuster.
“And if we close, it is in them,” Ellzey said.
Democrats find rich in republican criticisms, despite the enigma of the Senate numbers.
“This is a matter of why they can’t rule?” Representative RO Khanna asked, R-CALIF. “You chose a Republican president. You have a Republican Chamber. A Republican Senate. They should be able to have the votes to finance the government.”
Representative RO Khanna questions the witnesses during a round table about the ethics of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, June 11, 2024. (Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP through Getty Images)
Khanna also criticized the approach of the Republican Party “Take or leave” when they were not part of the negotiations for this particular bill. The Democrats demanded restrictions on doge and guarantees on the maintenance of programs in federal agencies, together without cuts to social programs.
Click here to get the Fox News application
“It is false for them to expect democratic votes without compromising,” Khanna said. “You can’t say ‘vote for it in my terms'”.
This can be a week full of potholes. The Chamber plans to approve the bill and omit the city, leaving the Senate holding the bag. Democrats are discussing whether it is better to keep the government in operation, since they support federal workers. Simultaneously they fear that a government closure can invite more Doge cuts.
But despite the fact that this seems other government closure battles, it is slightly different. You can never expect things to be the script when the president Donald Trump And Elon Musk is involved. Some argue that their interference with the December bill was only a snack. We will know for Friday night if this threat of government closure is like everyone else, or not.
