Posted on 09/18/2025 4:56:37 PM PDT by fluorescence
House Republicans plan to vote Friday morning on a short-term measure to fund the government as a shutdown deadline nears, hoping to keep pressure on Democrats who have signaled they will vote to shut down the government if Republicans don't cave to Democratic demands to restore cuts to Medicaid and extend Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced Thursday afternoon that the House would vote on the measure at 10:20 a.m. Friday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed cautious optimism Thursday that Republicans will pass their 52-day continuing resolution on Friday -- a week ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government.
"I think we have the votes and I think it's just very unfortunate the Democrats are trying to play partisan games when we're in good faith trying to fund the government," Johnson told reporters as he arrived at the Capitol on Thursday. "So, this is a clean, short-term CR. There's no tricks to this at all. It's a total good faith effort to allow appropriators on both sides of the aisle to continue their work. I don't know how they can object to it. I really don't."
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The funding plan proposes $30 million in additional member security over a more than seven-week stretch -- giving each member of Congress around $7,500 each week to spend on security -- more than double their own congressional salary. The package also includes $58 million to meet the Trump administration's request for supplemental funding for the executive and judicial branches.
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Senate and House Democrats unveiled a counter funding proposal that would only extend government funding until Oct. 31 and include health care-related proposals like rolling back Medicaid cuts in Trump's megabill that passed earlier this year.
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Cut
The
Spending
shut it down please.
It’s an embarrassment when one party controls both houses of Congress and the presidency and can’t get the budget approved on time. Then we have a government shutdown, government workers get sent home. When the budget gets passed, those government workers get paid for having done nothing. That in itself is government waste, and the elected branches are to blame for that.
Let Shoomer and the boyz shut it down. I think the Americans still have enough brain cells to figure out Shoomer and their boyz in the Party of Death, Destruction and Assassin are the idiots who shut it down.
Put the heat on the rats. An executive order stating that government workers will not be paid if not working sounds like a great idea. No work for no matter what reason equals no backpay. It’s only the non-essential people who are told to stay home anyway.
Filibuster
No more CRs! Follow the Constitution! Do an actual budget!
Shut it down moron.
Congress hasn’t passed a budget on time since 1996.
I have no problem with the government being shut down.
But they said a shutdown was the worst thing and would be an end to their democracy.
Maybe that was the plan?
Never expect anything from a Democrat.
Agree . Why didn’t Speaker Johnson cancel August recess and knock this out then?
Shut it down.
Stop kicking the can down the road. STOP IT! Put together a REAL budget (as the Constitution demands), pass the budget, and live within a budget.
It would be nice if the electorate held their representatives accountable for dereliction of duty.
The Democrats aren’t worried. The Repubs have folded. Always have. Always will. I’m beginning to think that our RINOs are secret trannys, having had their cojones removed, along with their spines.
I would LOVE to see obamacare welfare ned. Surprise suckers, here’s how much your free affordable care really costs.
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