President Trump met Wednesday with members of the Home Freedom Caucus to debate unifying round a plan for a seamless decision to maintain the federal government open forward of a looming shutdown deadline.
Home conservatives emerged from a gathering on the White Home and signaled confidence that they might help a seamless decision (CR) as soon as it’s finalized.
“We had a great meeting with the president. The group of conservatives in the office with him all want to support the president’s agenda, and we’re going to work toward getting that continuing resolution in the form where we can pass it, just like we did last week,” Home Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) instructed reporters on the White Home, referencing the Home GOP passage of a price range decision to advance Trump’s agenda.
“To all the people that said you can never pass that reconciliation bill with only Republican votes, wait ’til next week,” Harris mentioned. “We get another chance with the year-long CR.”
Harris famous Home lawmakers are nonetheless ready to see the ultimate textual content of a seamless decision.
Trump in current days had urged Republican lawmakers to move a CR to fund the federal government by means of the remainder of the fiscal 12 months, which runs by means of the top of September. Authorities funding runs out March 14.
For years, members of the Home Freedom Caucus have reliably voted “no” on stopgaps and different spending measures that don’t codify their priorities, railing in opposition to leaders for failing to approve appropriations payments on time.
This time, they’ve signaled an openness to doing so, arguing it could assist Trump’s agenda. In addition they pointed to efforts by Elon Musk and the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) to establish authorities spending deemed wasteful that doesn’t align with the administration’s priorities.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) instructed reporters on the White Home that there’s “overwhelming support” amongst Home conservatives to provide room to Musk and White Home price range director Russ Vought to establish “cuts that need to occur.”
Roy additionally argued for freezing spending at present ranges to “hold spending in check while we identify those cuts, which keep coming out.”
