President-elect Donald Trump's criticism of a short-term government funding bill proposed by House Speaker Mike Johnson has created turmoil in the House, leaving Senate Republicans scrambling to find a solution before a Friday deadline.
As President-elect Donald Trump 's comments tanking House Speaker Mike Johnson's short-term government funding bill sent House Republicans into a tailspin Wednesday night, Senate Republicans were left to try to make sense of the remaining pieces. Congress must act to fund the government by midnight on Friday or risk a shutdown. With the House back at the drawing board, the clock is ticking.
The nature of government funding bills means that the Senate is usually in a wait-and-see posture until the House acts. That's particularly true this time around, where Johnson has to wrangle his slim House majority into passing legislation that Trump will find palatable before the Senate decides whether they can accept it. The looming funding deadline means that the Senate will in all likelihood be forced to stomach whatever Johnson manages to pass through the House unless it is so unacceptable that Senators are willing to shut the government down over it. Democrats still run the Senate for a few more days, and the 60-vote threshold in the Senate makes compromise essential. During late votes Wednesday night, Senate Republicans weighed in on the current government funding situation with a little more than 48 hours until a shutdown.Despite the challenges now facing Congress to finish up work on government funding, there are a number of Senate Republicans who concede they weren't happy with the House proposal that Johnson put forward on Tuesday. Some are pleased that Trump got involved to encourage changes. 'This is supposed to be a CR that extends the status quo. And it's supposed to be lean and mean,' Se
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