Trick or Treat: Congress faces 'chamber of horrors' as government funding deadline looms
2025-08-11 23:21:06
It was mid -July. and House of Representatives It was already in the summer.
This is almost the same time in time for Halloween decorations such as giant yard skeletons and peanut butter in Reese and began to embody them in stores.
That was not fake. Halloween is the major consumer holiday coming in the calendar.
I mean, what will you buy to decorate the Day of Workers?
But there is a nervous alignment between July and Halloween when it comes to Congress. If you start seeing Halloween in July, this is practically in October in terms of Capitol Hill. the reason? Congress has not ended The annual spending bills before the annual August holiday, and this means that the enemy will be to end it by October 1, which is the deadline for avoiding the closure of the government.
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At the same time that the rest of the nation begins to think about ghosts and goblins on Halloween.
The deadline for financing is sufficient to convert the Capitol in the United States into a room of terror throughout September. Always Congress Withdrawal to complete Spending measures in July. Then, August comes and fears about spending bills like a ghost. Then the credits bills, such as mummies, rise from their coffins when Congress returns in September. The battle is about avoiding the closure of the government as a vampire. Most other legislative activity absorb outside Congress until there is a deal. This is because most members do not want any part of the government closing. Legionships from both sides know that government financing is one of the most important points of reflection in the political evaluation.
Let’s study where to stand with government financing.
Congress approved the StopGAP bill to avoid the closure of the government in March. The temporary spending package funded the government until September 30, the end of the federal fiscal year. The House of Representatives approved the bill. But legislators are concerned about closing the potential government because breaking the wick on this measure requires 60 votes. This necessitated support for some Democrats because Republicans have only 53 votes in the Senate.
In the last minute, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. , It will help Republicans break the metal. Shomer did not vote with yes on the draft law itself. But the Democrats in New York argued that avoiding the closure at that stage was better than carrying one during the era of President Trump – Eileon Musk, who was fully enabled in Doug.
Some hands in the Capitol Hill and the Congress observers fear that the government may be closed for a long time if it is closed. Shomer and other Democrats confirmed that the president and musk will use this as a messenger to never reopen some parts of the government because they lack financing from Congress.
Progressive people did the Shomer’s symptoms not to extract a great concession from President Trump and the Republicans in Congress, which reflects democratic values and priorities. The liberals used Schumer’s decision as a justification for demanding the new democratic leadership in the Senate. The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, DN.Y. He will choose in the Scheomer maneuver, and he avoids questions from journalists about the break.
White House Budget Director Ross Four says he wants less partisan credits. This is good. But this is about mathematics. Republicans in the House of Representatives must adhere to each other to pass any spending package there. house Mike Johnson speakerR-La. , You can only lose three votes and still pass a draft law without democratic assistance. Likewise, the Republicans of the Senate can lose three votes there as well. But the real obstacle is filibuster. This is where 60 votes are necessary. This means that the Republican Party must rely on Democrats – assuming that they are ready to help.
It is not really clear whether Republicans can adhere to approval Package of spending. Keep in mind that almost certainly any spending scale must simply renew all current financing on a temporary basis. Many Republicans were tired of these credits-especially since Johnson promised to do things differently as soon as the match claimed the defendant in October 2023. He remembered that some conservatives helped the former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R California, less than two years ago because he supported the temporary spending plan.
Some Republicans began to lose his patience with Johnson in spending plans. But remember that most Republicans will support any allocations to plan the copper applause of the Republican Party – as long as it has the blessing of President Trump.
So you may defend a more partisan process. But this will not lead to the achievements of politics and priorities of spending on the Republican Party unless the Democratic Republicans are convinced to play the ball.
Here is another dynamic: Some members of the conservative freedom gathering are hinting that they simply want to restart the current levels of financing again. Yes, legislators agreed to these spending plans under President Biden and the Democratic Senate. Therefore, many federal government are still working under democratic spending plans. But Democrats will ask for more money for the upcoming spending round. The same with some Republicans. So voting to renew old money – regardless of who paid it – is less than that Congress could have been spent. For this reason, some members of freedom of freedom suggest that this will be a reduction in actual spending.
They are not wrong. Federal spending is always on an upward path. This would restrict matters and praise the annual spending curve for the first time in decades.
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So, if your goal is to reduce financing, this may be the most logical option under the current political circumstances.
Remember, it is about mathematics.
Moreover, the Republicans only agreed to the financing discount covers that Dog requested. Congress has issued a bill to reduce $ 9 billion from the Public Broadcasting Corporation and external aid. This is not much. Republicans can almost approve this draft law. How they cancel the other financing still must be seen. However, Republicans can illuminate all the old money – then prepare the hawks in the budget, will try to resume other spending by later future consolidation packages in the fall or winter.
But Democrats will not go to that. They saw that while the Republicans fell the Hershey tape into a trick or their bag – then they exchanged it to the rock music.
It is not clear whether the Democrats have explored the soap of Republican windows in the Capitol this fall if Republicans tried this maneuver. But this could be an opportunity to find out.
This leads us to the puzzle facing Shomer. One may wonder how politics has changed since March – though President Trump Musk is no longer in the league with each other. But progressive people expect Schumer to demand the king’s ransom in exchange for the democratic voices that destroy it.
In other words, Johnson and Shomer faces decisions with frightening dimensions soon.
It may seem as if October 1 is a long road below the calendar. it’s not. To ignore the complexity of this matter is the legislative equivalent of drainage via the cemetery.
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