Home Republicans on Tuesday launched textual content for a stopgap invoice that funds the federal government at present ranges by way of Nov. 21 and boosts safety funding for public officers.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stated the Home plans to vote “by Friday” on the measure, saying it “will keep the government funded and operating at current levels while we continue all this work” on common appropriations payments.
Along with extending funding, it meets the Trump administration’s request for a further $58 million for safety for public officers — $30 million for the chief department, and $28 million for the Supreme Court docket — plus a $30 million increase in safety funding for safety for members of Congress.
The $30 million increase in funding for member safety will probably be deposited in a mutual assist account to reimburse native police for funds spent to guard members of Congress, based on a Home GOP management supply.
The invoice additionally features a funding repair for the District of Columbia for fiscal 2026, coming after Congress handed a funding invoice earlier this 12 months that left the district with a $1 billion shortfall. And it contains a number of different budgetary anomalies that have been requested by the White Home, in addition to an extension of authorizations pertaining to well being care and veterans affairs.
Democrats have signaled opposition to such a funding invoice, calling for any stopgap to incorporate provisions to remove cuts to Medicaid that Republicans handed into regulation earlier this 12 months and to increase Reasonably priced Care Act (ACA) subsidies expiring on the finish of the 12 months.
“In exchange for their vote to fund the government, some Democrats said they wanted Republicans to repeal our very popular and very effective reforms to the Medicaid program … Zero chance that we will do that,” Johnson stated.
On the expiring ACA subsidies, Johnson stated: “That is a December policy issue, not a September funding issue.”
If all Democrats vote in opposition to the CR, Republicans can afford to lose not more than two GOP votes, assuming all members are current and voting.
No less than 4 GOP members have signaled opposition to a short-term CR: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who stated it could be “disloyalty” to Trump to increase funding ranges first authorised beneath former President Biden; Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), who recurrently votes in opposition to CRs; Rep. Victoria Spartz (Ind.), who usually alerts opposition to funding measures earlier than voting for them; and Rep. Warren Davidson (Ohio), who decried “another CR for the sake of more government.”
Davidson, although, signaled on Tuesday morning he may very well be satisfied to vote for it: “Any time there’s a CR, it’s like, in order to do what? What is the play call from here?”
