House Republican leaders released textbooks on the bill on Saturday, providing funding to the government until September, avoiding the government’s closures set since midnight on March 14th.
Page 99 suspension funds invoiceknown as a continuous solution (CR), it will fund government operations for the remainder of the fiscal year. Government funding plans are widespread backing At the House Republican Congress, GOP leadership staff said, is the product of close coordination with the Trump administration to ensure that the government spends less money. (Related: James Kerrville says Dems, who was defeated by immigration after hearing Biden hears “a ridiculous distance”)
House Democrats are expected to oppose StopGup’s fundraising bill. It was criticized GOP lawmakers refused to insert language into texts that cut unnecessary spending, including President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The bill’s text is “clean,” and includes the lowest amount of unrelated language to fund the government through year-round CR, according to House GOP leadership staff.
The CR reduces spending below the 2024 level and does not include policy riders who have tanked additional emergency funds, disaster declarations, or previous suspension financing bills. The CR text includes an additional $6 billion in veteran healthcare, which will moderately increase defense spending and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) funds to patch the operational shortages launched under the Biden administration.
Nondefense’s spending is reduced by $13 billion, particularly from the FY24 level, with the CR also including requests to cancel the $20 billion IRS enforcement fund.
CR continues to move to Trump and his Doge to dismantle, including USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. However, House Republicans are intended to implement Doge Cuts in the 2026 spending process.
Senate Republicans, including Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham; push Elon Musk will create a withdrawal package during a Senate GOP luncheon with MUSK on Wednesday that will allow Congress to revoke allocated funds by simple majority votes in both rooms.
WASHINGTON, DC – March 5: White House President, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (L) arrives on March 5, 2025 to meet with US Senate Republicans in Washington, DC, and walks with US Senator Rickscott (R-FL). The CR text is closely coordinated with the Trump administration, but it funds in particular the institutions that Musk has dismantled. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
With the majority of House Democrats expected to oppose CR, Mike Johnson will need unanimity of GOP lawmakers to pass the CR from GOP lawmakers, taking into account the 218-214 majority.
Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massey frequently voted for government spending bills and opposed the GOP budget resolution, which passed the House on February 25th slightly. announcement He votes for “No” in CR.
Trump met with the GOP’s fiscal Hawks at the White House on Wednesday to measure CR’s support. House Freedom Caucus Speaker Andy Harris told the Daily Call News Foundation that funding the government through CR will allow House Republicans to prioritize passing the president’s first-year legislative agenda through the budget adjustment process.
StopGap Government Funding Bill needs support from at least eight Senate Democrats to overcome the filibuster in the Upper Chamber given Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Pledge Opposed to CR. Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has I said He will not vote to shut down the government, effectively giving at least one democratic vote to a GOP-backed plan.
House Democrat leaders have shown they are against the CR – and the GOP’s efforts to keep the government open have been in “dear colleagues.” letter Released on Friday.
“Hospital Democrats are enthusiastic about bills protecting Social Security, Medicare, Veterans Health and Medicaid, but Republicans have chosen to put them in the chopping block to pay billionaires’ tax cuts,” the House Democrat leader wrote. “We can’t support measures that rip off life-saving healthcare and retirement benefits from everyday Americans as part of a Republican scheme to pay for the massive tax cuts of wealthy donors like Elon Musk. Medicaid is our redline.”
According to House GOP Leadership Staff, CR Texts does not touch on Medicaid or essential spending programs and provides additional $6 billion in funding for veteran healthcare.
Democrats just can’t get sarcasm.
They love to remind Americans of the dangers of government shutdowns.
But they are against clean CRs that keep the government open. pic.twitter.com/tbqsuiv4ee
– Speaker Mike Johnson (@speakerjohnson) March 8, 2025
House Republican campaign division denounced House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday for opposing the CR.
“House Democrats have confirmed they want the government to be shut down, but now they’re following,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “They don’t intentionally reduce our country’s security and prosper just to score political points. House Democrats will always put politics on people.”
Trump approved a CR approach to keeping government operations running during Wednesday’s true social post.
“The government’s funds will be gone next week and Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. But I have worked with great House Republicans to work together on an ongoing resolution to fund the government until September, giving it the time we need to tackle our agenda,” Trump said. I wrote it We urge GOP lawmakers to support CR on the true social of March 5th. “Conservatives will love this bill because this year we are setting it up to reduce the tax and spending of the settlement while still being able to continue working. Very important – let’s complete this bill!”
House GOP leadership is expected to increase the bill as early as Tuesday for floor voting.
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