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Trump twists GOP lawmakers’ arms as authorities shutdown looms

Editorial Board Published March 11, 2025
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President Donald Trump is working the telephones to persuade Home Republicans to vote for a authorities funding invoice that will make billions in cuts to infrastructure tasks, training, and veterans’ well being care whereas additionally rising funding for Trump’s deportation drive and permitting co-President Elon Musk to make devastating cuts to the federal funds that might crash the financial system.

Home Republicans, who didn’t negotiate with Democrats on the plan, are hoping to move the funding invoice and depart city, which they assume will enable them in charge a authorities shutdown on Senate Democrats if the Senate fails to move the laws earlier than the federal government runs out of cash on Friday at midnight. 

However with a particularly slender majority, and with Home Democrats in agency opposition to the plan, Republicans must hold their whole convention collectively to get the funding invoice over the end line. And that is requiring Trump to twist arms to persuade the handful of GOP holdouts to vote for the invoice.

Trump is promoting the plan to Republicans by telling them that despite the fact that the funds doesn’t make the large cuts to federal companies that Republicans need, co-President Elon Musk and his so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity will merely refuse to spend the cash Congress is appropriating within the funding invoice. 

Politico reported:

Trump and White Home officers have been telling GOP holdouts who need extra spending cuts that the administration will pursue impoundment—that’s, holding again federal funding already appropriated by Congress—in keeping with two Republicans who have been in a latest assembly with the president.

That’s the primary motive Home Democrats say they firmly oppose the funding invoice, and plan to vote towards it en masse.

“Republicans temporarily control the House, Senate and the presidency. Instead of using their majority to make life better for the American people, Donald Trump and House Republicans are crashing the economy and hurting hard-working American families. And now extreme MAGA Republicans want to shut down the government,” Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries stated on Tuesday. “The House Republican so-called spending bill does nothing to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Quite the opposite. The Republican bill dramatically cuts health care, nutritional assistance for children and families and veterans benefits. It is not something we could ever support.”


Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky

For now, in keeping with Politico, Reps. Tony Gonzales, Tim Burchett, Cory Mills, Wealthy McCormick, Beth Van Duyne, Kat Cammack, Andy Ogles, and Brian Fitzpatrick haven’t but agreed to vote for the invoice. In the meantime, Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is a agency no.

Nevertheless, Ogles posted a video to X on Monday evening that stated that as long as the invoice doesn’t change, he’ll “likely support it.”

And Trump is working the telephones to get the remainder of these lawmakers onboard—one thing that might occur as Republicans have proven again and again that they’re too scared to be on the improper facet of their Expensive Chief.

Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts made that time Monday evening at a Home Guidelines Committee assembly by which Republicans teed up the funding invoice for a vote as early as Tuesday earlier than the total Home.

“You probably will have the votes because even the so-called principled conservatives who don’t like [continuing resolutions], I think they are suffering from Victoria Spartz syndrome, where on Monday they are a hard ‘no’ and then on Tuesday they are a hard ‘yes,’” McGovern stated, referring to the Indiana Republican lawmaker who stated she was voting towards Trump’s invoice to slash Medicaid funding with the intention to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, solely to show round and vote for it.

Home Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday stated he’s assured the invoice will move, predicting that Massie would be the solely Republican to vote “no.”

Because the clock ticks right down to Friday at midnight, when the federal government is ready to expire of funding, Trump is rising more and more indignant at Republicans not but on board with the plan. He publicly threatened to recruit a main challenger towards Massie, who isn’t anticipated to vary his choice to vote towards the funding invoice.

“Congressman Thomas Massie, of beautiful Kentucky, is an automatic ‘NO’ vote on just about everything, despite the fact that he has always voted for Continuing Resolutions in the past,” Trump wrote in a submit on Fact Social. “HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED, and I will lead the charge against him. He’s just another GRANDSTANDER, who’s too much trouble, and not worth the fight. He reminds me of Liz Chaney before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!). The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch. DO I HAVE ANY TAKERS???”

(It is value noting Trump has tried to oust Massie in a main up to now, and failed.)

In the end, whereas the federal government funding invoice isn’t but on agency floor, Republicans have just a few issues going for them.

And by no means underestimate Republicans’ skill to fold beneath strain from Trump.

 

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