Watch Shutdown Government: GOP moves forward with a short -term bill because Democrats reveal the opposition

The congress has one week to pass the expenditure bill that will prevent the closure of the government, but parliamentary members from both parties are not in the same yard about how they will move forward.
DPR Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Said he was aimed at holding a vote on Tuesday in the DPR with a clean short-term bill that would fund the government at the current level until the end of September 2025, but the details of the proposal were still unclear.
The leaders say they hope to release the legislative text soon on Friday, but that is likely to launch to the weekend.
“I believe we will continue it along the party line,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday. “But I think every Democrats must choose this [continuing resolution]. This is a fundamental responsibility that we must do to fund the government, and a clean CR with some small anomalies is not something they must choose, so we will see what they are doing. “
President Donald Trump has lobbied House Republicans to support the move, including hard players who usually vote against sustainable resolution.
“Conservative will like this bill, because it makes us get taxes and expenses in reconciliation, everything temporarily freeze expenses this year,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social on Wednesday.

Parliament speaker Mike Johnson responded to questions from the news media when he walked to the DPR’s room to vote in the Democratic Representative from Texas Al Green in the US Capitol in Washington, March 6, 2025.
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Johnson is only able to lose one defender if all members choose and are present, which means he almost certainly needs Democratic assistance to pass the size.
Representatives of Thomas Massie, R-Ky., And Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, said they would choose not to be on a sustainable resolution-presenting challenges for Johnson, who navigated the majority of tight homes.
Democratic leaders of the top house explicitly said on Friday in a letter to colleagues that they would oppose the Johnson Funding Bill, with the reason it could cause road cutting to programs such as Medicaid.
“The Republican party has decided to introduce a sustainable resolution of partisan which threatens to cut funds for health care, nutritional assistance and veterans’ benefits until the end of the current fiscal year. That is unacceptable,” they wrote.
“We cannot support the actions that tear the benefits of health care and retirement that sustain the life of the daily Americans as part of the Republican scheme to pay massive taxes for their rich donors such as Elon Musk,” they added. “Medicaid is our redline.”

The majority leader of the Senate John Thune was accompanied by Sens. Tom Cotton, Shelley Moore Capito, Senator John Hoeven and Senator James Lankford spoke to reporters at the US Capitol, February 25, 2025 in Washington.
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Any funding bill also needs to clean the senate, where democratic support will be very important. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Has vowed to vote against the law, which means that at least eight Democrats will be needed so that funding proposals can be passed.
Democrats so far keep their cards close to what they will do if presented with such bills. Many Senate Democrats say the resolution of six months, as proposed by Johnson, will be a “disaster,” but they also only expressed their interest to kill the government.
Some Democrats prefer plans that will see the ratification of a shorter stopgap step to allow work completion on the full year allocation bill.
But if Johnson passed his plan and the house fled from Washington, there might be some alternative options that were left that did not trigger at least a short closure of the government.
Government funding is one of the few fields in which Democrats, which have encouraged ways to challenge Elon Musk’s slaughter through the government efficiency department, can emphasize their leverage. Are they in the end to use this bill to make the establishment, and at risk of killing the government, it still needs to be seen.