House passes bill to keep government from shutting down

“We’ve had our meeting just about a half an hour ago, a teleconference with a bunch of agencies to tell them to start to implement their lapse plan, the next step in preparing for a lapse in funding, that’s what we call a shutdown”.

As floor debate opened on the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused his Democratic counterpart, Sen. That’s what the House passed Thursday. “It is risky, it is reckless and it is wrong”, he told reporters. Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee that Trump will be more favorable then.

The 230-197 vote came just over a day before current funding is set to run out at midnight Friday.

A growing number of Republicans came out in the past two days against the GOP spending measure, putting the bill in jeopardy in the Senate and giving Democrats confidence that they can push their position. The Office of Management and Budget is responsible for coordinating and enforcing a shutdown, which would send all non-essential federal workers home unless they’re funded outside the annual appropriations process. That person was not authorized to speak publicly about the private negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity. The chiefs of staff for each man – John Kelly for Trump and Mike Lynch for Schumer – also attended.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that her caucus was “greatly strengthened” by the unity they showed by opposing the spending bill on Thursday.

“Republicans control the House, they control the Senate and they control the presidency”, said Sen.

All that said, we are where we are. Members of Congress continue to get paid in a government shutdown.

Despite the delay, though, both Republicans and Democrats have said they support funding the program.

What happens in a government shutdown?

“They’re in charge”, Schumer said Friday as he entered his Capitol office. “There’s nothing the House can do in that kind of short order”. But the optics of Trump rubbing elbows with wealthy donors while the federal government is shuttered might be bad enough to maroon him in Washington.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday night that, if approved by the Senate and signed into law, would fund the government until February 16. But, he added, “we’re planning for it as though it’s 100 percent”.

President Donald Trump will not leave for a weekend at his Palm Beach estate unless a government shutdown is averted.

“We already have a bill that we know can pass the House-because it already did”.

Quite a way for the President to spend the one year anniversary of his inauguration. President Trump tweeted about the possibility Friday morning. If they want Democratic votes top help keep the government open, the spending bill should be negotiated to reflect some Democratic priorities.

A test vote on a filibuster by Senate Democrats appeared likely before the shutdown deadline.

Trump has also sought to cast blame on the Democrats in the event of a shutdown, tweeting Thursday, “A government shutdown will be devastating to our military. something the Dems care very little about!”

Most Senate Democrats oppose the short-term spending bill, called a continuing resolution, because it does not include protections for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US illegally as children. Republicans have argued government funding and immigration should be handled separately.

Republican Senator Mike Rounds, who had earlier said he could not back the bill, on Friday said in a statement that while the measure was “not ideal”, he would support it after being assured that other legislation to adequately fund the US military would be raised soon.