Worried about a rapidly shrinking US House majority for 2025….
US Senate Republicans want to settle and pass appropriations bills before Trump gets sworn in….
(Musk and Ramaswamy will be gradually forgotten by a Congress that won’t want to give up it’s power to decide how the Govt’s money is spent)
Republicans will have a majority in the Senate ….
But at the start in January, the Republican House majority could as small as 1 or 2 ….
And Republican’s in the House normally do infighting…..
Despite Trump, or the GOP WingNuts…
The vast majority of Republicans in Congress do NOT want to see a Government shutdown….
GOP senators fear Trump’s first 90 days in office will get bogged down in fights over spending cuts that could divide the GOP and sap energy from an effort to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
And they worry the same spending fights that paralyzed the GOP-controlled House in 2023 and 2024 will plague the even smaller House GOP majority next year.
“I hate it, I think it’s a mistake,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said of the plan favored by House Republicans to pass a government funding stopgap that lasts until mid- or late March.
“Speaking of rebellious House members, House Republicans, I think they’re making a mistake forcing the CR into March,” he said, using the abbreviation for continuing resolution. “I think it’s a bad strategy. I just think clearing the deck would have been so much better.
Cramer warned that lawmakers will be forced to juggle the leftover spending bills in February and March while they’re processing Trump’s Cabinet picks and putting together a budget reconciliation package to secure the border….
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As a result, a single House Republican lawmaker may be able bring the lower chamber to a grinding halt to gain leverage for his or her demands.
The House GOP has a reputation for disorder, and it has been difficult for Johnson to get it to march in step, Lawmakers in the Senate are already speculating over who might cause the biggest headache.
“For the first three months, Johnson has a margin of one,” Cassidy said of the Speaker…
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Congress needs to pass a temporary government funding bill by Dec. 20 to avoid a shutdown…..
Note…
They are already working a Defense Bill…..
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