26 Mar 2025 11:11 am
not every house republican agreed the plan. they did not like it but johnson and trump insisted.DeezerShoove » 26 Mar 2025, 7:54 am » wrote: ↑ Four replies in a row...
Hint: I can't do a **** thing for your "cause".
Are you contacting your congressman so you can get a pre-printed thank you note in return?
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... n-00213112
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson still have to convince a small group of fiscal hawks to back their funding plan to avert a government shutdown by the March 14 deadline.A group of House Freedom Caucus members and other budget hawks who are deeply skeptical of supporting short-term measures to fund the federal operations are heading to the White House Wednesday for a 2 p.m. meeting with Trump. The president is expected to push for Republicans to fall in line and vote for Johnson’s continuing resolution to fund the government at current spending levels through the end of September.Johnson can’t afford any serious defections at this point. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said in an interview Monday that he’ll vote against the funding plan on the floor. But he is open to supporting the key procedural vote to allow debate when Johnson brings up the matter on the floor early next week.Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who said in an interview Wednesday morning that he’s still undecided over the funding plan, will be at the White House meeting Wednesday afternoon. Freedom Caucus member Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) is also not yet on board with the gambit.“I’m going to have a conversation with the administration and get an idea of if there’s a strategy to actually reduce the deficits, and he said tonight, to balance the budget,” Burlison said in an interview after Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday evening.But Burlison indicated he could be convinced: “I’m willing to give them the runway and the latitude if they say this is necessary. I’ve been burned by other people, but Donald Trump has never burned me, and I think that he’s a ma