Washington Submit: “With lower than every week to go earlier than a March 14 shutdown deadline, President Donald Trump and Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are pushing for a invoice that might lengthen present funding ranges till the top of the fiscal yr in late September.”
“The measure unveiled Saturday, often called a seamless decision, or CR, would stave off a politically pricey shutdown if it passes.”
“However it could additionally imply that Republicans, who management each chambers of Congress and the White Home, would largely maintain funding set by President Joe Biden final yr, reasonably than enable the appropriations committees to set new spending ranges — hardly the win they had been hoping for.”
NOTUS: “The invoice, which is 99 pages lengthy, isn’t precisely a straight extension of present funding. All through the laws, a whole bunch of line-items get completely different quantities than their present appropriation — some extra and a few much less. Total, the laws reduces spending by $8 billion, although it doesn’t codify any of the cuts made by Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity.”
Axios: Home Republicans launch 100-page spending invoice to forestall shutdown.
