Trump asks Republicans to join CR to avoid government closure

The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of LA-LA. The first 100 days of the mandate of President Donald Trump.

Given the lack of support of the Democrats, Johnson is betting on Republicans who can greatly muscle for themselves in the 99 -page legislation that would keep the federal agencies financed until September 30.

Congress must act to avoid a partial government closure before Friday, March 14. Despite the dozens of conservative defections in continuous resolutions in the last two years, Trump requested on Saturday for Republicans to join to support the bill.

“The Chamber and the Senate have gathered, under the circumstances, a very good Financing Law (‘CR’)! All Republicans must vote (please!) Yes next week,” Trump wrote about TRUTHSOCIAL. “Great things come to the United States, and I am asking everyone to give us a few months to get to September so that we can continue to put the ‘financial chamber’ of the country in order. Democrats will do everything possible to close our government, and we cannot let that happen.”

Congress presents an expense plan after Trump asks Republicans to avoid the closure of the government

“We have to remain united, without dissent, fight for another day when the moment is correct,” Trump added. “Very important. Make the United States great again!”

Even so, some Republicans have already pointed out that they would not support the CR.

“I am not voting for the continuous resolution budget (omnibus of cutting paste) this week,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Posted in X on Sunday. “Why would I vote to continue with waste fraud and the abuse Doge has found? They told us that the CR in December would make us go when we would fight. Here we are in March, throwing again! Wtfo.”

Meanwhile, representative Ralph Norman, RS.C., said he has never voted for a continuous resolution, but is on board with Johnson’s effort. He says he has confidence in Trump and the Government’s efficiency department, led by Elon Musk, to make a difference in the nation’s debt. “I don’t like Crs,” Norman said. “But what is the alternative? Negotiate with the Democrats? No.”

In a call with journalists on Saturday, republican leadership attendees of the House of Representatives described how the bill provides $ 892.5 billion in discretionary federal defense expenses and $ 708 billion in non -defensive discretionary expenses.

The assistants emphasized that the bill was “closely coordinated” with the White House, as long as Trump was not stopped by the measure completely, noting that he has not yet reviewed the specific pages.

It includes an additional $ 8 billion in defense dollars in an apparent attempts to facilitate the concerns of the National Hawks, while the non -defensive expense that Congress appropriates would decrease annually by approximately $ 13 billion.

There are also an additional $ 6 billion for medical care for veterans.

REP. Ralph Norman supports Trump’s plan to avoid the closure of the government, drives the limits of the Congress mandate

The White House has requested an additional expense in areas that were not present in the last extension of government financing, known as “anomalies.” Among the anomalies requested by Trump and being complied with by the bill, funds are added to Immigration and Customs Control (ICE). Attendees said that financing is intended to comply with “a deficit of operations that dates back to the Biden administration.”

“That money, most of that, has already been forced before the start of this administration. Therefore, that request reflects an existing hole,” said a source.

The bill also guarantees that the expenditure limits located under a prior bipartisan agreement, the Fiscal Responsibility Law (FRA) are followed. Fra demanded no more than an increase in federal expenditure of 1% in fiscal year 2025.

The non -defensive discretion -spending cuts would be eliminating some “secondary agreements” carried out during the French negotiations, said the leadership assistants of the Republican Party. Legislators would not have the opportunity to request funds for special pet projects in their districts known as assignments, another area that Republicans are classifying as savings.

The bill does not cover most government spending, including Social Security and Medicare. Financing for these two programs is in autopilot and does not regularly review the Congress. Even so, Democratic leadership issued a statement on Saturday saying that they were worried, the bill does not take measures to protect those programs and Medicaid, which Republicans are looking to help pay for the tax cuts to extend in Trump’s first mandate.

“We are voting no”, a trio of democratic leaders of the Chamber, including the leader of the minority of the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries representative, Dn.y., he said.

The main Democrats in the Chamber and Senate Assignments Committees, the Representative of Connecticut, Rosa Delauro, and the Washington senator, Patty Murray, issued statements that criticized the legislation.

Murray said the legislation “would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over federal expenditure, and more power to choose winners and losers, which threatens families in the blue and red states.” Delauro, in an X post, called the CR “a power grip for the White House.”

Senator Susan Collins, R-MAINE, who directs the Senate Assignments Committee, said the approach must be to prevent a closure because the closures have negative consequences throughout the government.

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“They require that certain essential government employees, such as the border patrol agents, the members of our military and coastal guard, the TSA quarries and the air traffic drivers, report without certainty about when they will receive their next payment check,” said Collins. “We cannot allow that to happen.”

Elizabeth Elkind de Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.