House Republicans have released a plan to avoid a government shutdown. The stopgap bill would fund the government through November 21 and increases security for public officials.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the “short-term, clean continuing resolution” will “keep the government funded and operating at current levels while we continue all this work and doing our jobs and getting the remaining bills done.”
“This will not be a partisan CR, it’ll be a clean, short-term continuing resolution, end of story,” he reiterated. “And it’s interesting to me that some of the same Democrats who decried government shutdowns under President Biden appear to have no heartache whatsoever at walking our nation off that cliff right now. I hope they don’t. I hope that they’ll work with us so we can all do our jobs here. We get a short-term CR done, complete the appropriations bill, and get back to the regular order that we have all seen as necessary so we can be good stewards of taxpayers’ funds.”
President Trump weighed in on the bill’s development. “Congressional Republicans, including Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson, are working on a short term ‘CLEAN’ extension of Government Funding to stop Cryin’ Chuck Schumer from shutting down the Government,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“In times like these, Republicans have to stick TOGETHER to fight back against the Radical Left Democrat demands, and vote ‘YES!’ on both Votes needed to pass a Clean CR this week out of the House of Representatives,” Trump urged. “Democrats want the Government to shut down. Republicans want the Government to OPEN. Democrats love CRIME, Republicans make our Country SAFE — WE HATE CRIME. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT”
