US Government Set To Run Out Of Money At Midnight Friday

Meadows said that leadership and the White House “seems to be very confident that they have the votes”, but Meadows said they did not have enough support as of Wednesday evening.

“We owe it to the employers in the country to get this done before then and get it to the president”, the senator said, noting employers need to know if their employees will be able to stay in the country.

Ryan also said he wants to reach a compromise on immigration but won’t bring such a measure to the House floor unless President Donald Trump supports it. “And he’s not indicated what measure he’s willing to sign”. Republicans there need the support of nine Democrats to pass any funding measure.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) this month said “shame on any of us” if Congress were to let the government shut down over politics, and Sen. Republicans have said this notion of “parity” is a non-starter.

White House chief of staff John Kelly met on Wednesday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to make the case that Trump had “evolved” on his signature campaign promise to build a wall the length of the U.S. border.

Before Bannon had a public falling-out with the president over the former adviser’s comments in a new book about the Trump White House, the expectation had been that Bannon’s involvement might tempt Trump to interject himself into some those fights.

Republicans saw including a CHIP extension as crucial to winning some Democratic support for the stopgap spending plan.

“It is the intransigence of so many who say don’t talk, don’t negotiate, it’s my way or the highway” that has led to this point, said Schumer of NY. “And clear direction from the White House has value”. The Trump-state Democrats, whose votes are needed to keep the government open, could pay a big political price for a shutdown. “It’s the worst way in the world to run the military and the government in general”. Republicans had hoped that including CHIP funds would entice Democrats to vote for the bill, according to the Times. John McCain, R-Ariz., is not in Washington when the vote occurs.

Many Democrats are already opposed to another short-term fix, leaving Republicans to rely on their own divided caucus to advance the measure.

He said Trump and the Republicans want to pursue a “policy of intransigence” as they did when pushing the president’s health care legislation as well as the tax reform bill.

Of the 26 seats now held by senatorswho caucus with Democrats up for election this year, 10 are in states Trump won in 2016.

The last-minute confusion over CHIP further complicates spending negotiations that were stalled when Trump rejected a bipartisan Senate immigration plan meant to pave the way for a long-term spending agreement.

Neither Shah nor other White House spokespeople answered TPM’s questions about Trump’s sudden change in position.

But not everyone was sold.

The sticking point right now is immigration.

One potential sweetener is the full reauthorization of the Child Health Insurance Program, which Republican leaders might include in their stopgap spending bill.

Trump has only given his blessing to one plan, authored by House conservatives, a plan aimed squarely at courting GOP votes in the House.

A U.S. defense official also told CNN the military gets paid on the 1st and 15th of every month.

The House of Representatives could vote on the measure as early as Thursday, and if it passes, the bill would go to the Senate. If the Republicans want to demonstrate competence, now would be a great time to start.

“They do not have the votes”.

“I am optimistic that we can begin 2018 with a bipartisan, two-year funding agreement that meets several critically-important objectives”, McConnell said at the beginning of the new year.