{"id":132954,"date":"2024-12-03T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132954"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:34:59","slug":"congress-faces-shutdown-dilemma-that-could-mess-with-trumps-first-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132954","title":{"rendered":"Congress faces shutdown dilemma that could mess with Trump&#8217;s first 100 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">WASHINGTON \u2014 As Congress returns this week for one last burst of activity before it wraps up the session, it faces a key deadline of Dec. 20 to avert a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Democrats and Republicans appear resigned to passing a continuing resolution, or CR, that would temporarily fund the government into early 2025 \u2014 most likely March \u2014 as they run out of time to strike a full funding deal this year. The two parties haven&#8217;t even agreed on an overall spending level for the new fiscal year, let alone how to allocate the money across parts of the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., alluded to the inevitability of a short-term bill Monday, saying, \u201cWe need to keep divisive and unnecessary provisions out of any government funding extension, or else it will get harder to pass a CR in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For Republicans, that is a double-edged sword.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The upside for Republicans in punting the deadline is that they would have more leverage to shape government funding in the new year, with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House and the GOP taking control of the Senate and maintaining a narrow House majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The big downside is it would create a critical deadline early in the Trump presidency, potentially taking valuable time away from confirming his nominees through the Senate and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republicans-eye-tax-breaks-border-funds-clean-energy-cuts-trump-return-rcna181927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the big party-line bill that Republicans are looking at<\/a> to extend his tax cuts and advance his immigration and border security agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to do a lot of things at the same time,\u201d House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said of the first 100 days of Trump\u2019s second term. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be walking and chewing gum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some Republicans would have preferred not to get bogged down with a funding deadline early in the new Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere are a lot of things I would prefer. But realistically, we\u2019re not going to put together a budget between now and Christmas. It\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told NBC News. \u201cI expect us to have a CR probably through the middle of March. I expect that CR to be pretty thin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kennedy added that Congress is likely to attach &#8220;$30 [billion] to $40 billion of disaster relief&#8221; to the CR, including funding for states hit by hurricanes this year. &#8220;It won\u2019t be enough, but it\u2019ll be enough to get a start,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Funding the government is usually a messy process that requires bipartisan support, as the bills are subject to the Senate\u2019s 60-vote threshold. Democrats have significant power to shape the legislation regardless of the deadline; they hold the majority now, and beginning next year, Republicans will have 53 senators, far short of the 60 needed to control the process themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another dynamic is that passing another massive Christmastime funding package would be a nonstarter for many House Republicans, and it could imperil House Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s bid to get re-elected to the position on Jan. 3, particularly with the already slim GOP majority shrinking further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another drawn-out speaker fight could also complicate Trump&#8217;s presidency, albeit in different ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Johnson&#8217;s office had no comment on the length of a CR, saying it hasn&#8217;t been settled yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, which writes funding bills, said there&#8217;s little time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOnce they decide what they\u2019re going to do \u2014 if they\u2019re going to try to get any of these appropriation bills done before or whether they\u2019re going to do a CR for all of them until March \u2014 I mean, that\u2019s the real debate. We can\u2019t get all of them done,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We could probably negotiate if we got a top-line number. We could probably negotiate several, maybe seven or eight, of the bills and get them done by the 20th, but would have to get that number fairly soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cSo my guess is \u2014 and it\u2019s just strictly my guess \u2014 is that we\u2019ll do a CR for everybody until end of March,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/congress-faces-shutdown-dilemma-mess-trumps-first-100-days-rcna182084\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 As Congress returns this week for one last burst of activity before it wraps up the session, it faces a key deadline of Dec. 20 to avert a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132954\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}