Washington (AP) – The house passed the legislation on Tuesday to avert partially state closure and financed federal authorities by September to ensure critical dynamics, since the measure now changes to Senate, where the support of non -partisan support is required to bring it through the finish line.
The Republicans needed overwhelming support from their members to adopt the financing measure, and they received them in the votes of the house votes from 217-213.
In the Senate you need support from at least eight democrats to send the legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk. It is one of the largest legislative tests of the second term of the Republican President and causes Vice President JD Vance to attend Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning to receive support.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
“Here is the end result. If the Democrats of Congress refuse to support this clean CR, they are responsible for each troop who misses a salary check for every flight due to reduced personnel at TSA, for any negative consequence that is due to the government’s closure, ”said Johnson.
Johnson’s strategy had the support of Trump, who asked the Republicans to “remain united – no contradiction – fought for another day when the timing is correct.”
Legislators said that the legislation would not remove defense expenditure of $ 13 billion from the levels of the 2024 budget year and that defense expenditure would enhance $ 6 billion, which for both categories rather flat changes compared to a total topopline of almost $ 1.7 trillion in the event of discretionary expenses. The draft law does not cover the majority of government expenses, including social security and medicar. These two programs are financed on Autopilot and is not regularly checked by the congress.
Democrats are mostly concerned about the discretion that the law template of the Trump administration gives for expenditure decisions. You are already worried about the efforts of the administration to make the Vocational Department for State Efficiency or Doge by the billionaires Trump consultant Elon Musk. And they say that the expenditure calculation would stimulate the effort.
Expenses are usually equipped with specific financing guidelines for crucial programs, but hundreds of these guidelines fall after legislation. The administration will therefore have more scope for the redesign of the priorities.
In a democratic memo, for example, said the government’s legislation would enable money to prevent money from fighting fentanyl and instead using it on mass postponement initiatives.
“This is not a clean CR. This draft law is an empty check, ”said Rep. Rosa Delauro from Connecticut, the Supreme Democrat in the House Appropriations Committee. “It is an empty check for Elon Musk and President Trump.”
MP Tom Cole, the Republican Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, admitted that the continued decision was not the result he was looking for, but said that it was time to end the cycle of compact -term financing extensions. This will be the third in the past few months. He accused Democrats of containing Trump’s authority for expenses.
“We will not limit a Republican Senate and a Republican House of a Republican president from the legitimate exercise of the executive authority,” said Cole.
Usually the Republicans had to work with Democrats to create a cross -party measure that can support both sides. This is because Republicans almost always lack the voices to adopt output calculations themselves.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md. And chair of the House Freedom Caucus, said he supported this because this would not lead to a massive catch expenditure calculation and reduce expenses.
“This is not the continued solution of her grandfather,” said Harris.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., But was still a holdout. He was the only Republican who voted no on the procedural vote and said that he would also vote against the bill.
Trump went on massie on social media and called him a “grandstand that has too much trouble”.
“It should be primed and I will conduct the indictment against him,” Trump wrote online.
Massie replied with the statement that Trump attacks me today and Canada. The difference is: Canada will lower at some point. “
The democratic leaders of the pets came out strongly against legislation. It was less clear how strongly they would make members in competitive battlefield districts to follow their leadership.
“This republican closure does not contribute to improving the American dream. It undermines it, ”said the democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., before the vote.
At this point, democratic leaders in the Senate generally seemed to emphasize patience and waited whether the Republicans could muscles the law before they commented.
“We will see what the house is doing first,” said the upper democratic Senator Chuck Schumer from New York.
Nevertheless, several one -tier Democrats criticized the measure. Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey said that he was stunned that the Republicans “tried to die from something that is their way or the highway”.
The Democrats also stopped an alternative law on Monday evening, which the government financed until April 11th. The legislation could serve as a plan B if the efforts led by GOP get stuck.
Both parties prepared to accuse others when the bill failed.
“It looks like they are trying to close the government,” said Johnson about Democrats.
“When the government closes with a Republican House, a Republican Senate and the Republican President, this will only be due to the fact that the Republicans have advanced with a terrible, party, take-or-leave-it law,” said Rep. Dan Goldman, DN.Y.
The expenditure law could also have a significant impact on the government of Colombia’s district.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, a democrat, said the proposal would require that the district would reduce the spending of 1.1 billion US dollars in the next six months because he has already passed a balanced budget and is in the middle of the financial year. This means that civil servants said cuts on critical services such as education and public security.
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Associated Press Writers Leah Askarinam, Gary Fields and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
