The president of the House of Representatives, Johnson, optimistic about the vote to avoid closing, but the Democrats are not
Republicans of the House of Representatives plan to vote on Friday morning in a short term to finance the government as a closing deadline approaches, hoping to maintain pressure on the Democrats who have indicated that they will vote to close the government if the Republicans do not yield to democratic demands to restore the cuts to Medicaid and extend the subsidies of Obamacar will established to expire at the end of the year.
The leader of the majority of the House of Representatives, Steve Scalise, announced Thursday afternoon that the camera would vote on the measure at 10:20 am on Friday.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, expressed caution optimism on Thursday that Republicans will approve their continuous resolution of 52 days on Friday, a week before the deadline of September 30 to finance the government.
“I think we have the votes and I think it is very unfortunate that the Democrats are trying to play partisan games when we are trying to finance the government,” Johnson told reporters when he arrived at the Capitol on Thursday. “So, this is a clean CR in the short term. There are no tricks in this at all. It is an effort of good faith to allow the appropriators on both sides of the hall to continue their work. I don’t know how they can object. I really don’t do it.”
With a close advantage of 219-213 over the Democrats, Johnson can afford to lose only two Republican deserters in a vote on approval. Several hard -line Republicans have indicated that they intend to vote against them, although the speaker has repeatedly overcome the latest working business, even if President Donald Trump’s arm change will bring the final votes to the heel.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, waits for an ecumenical patriarch and archbishop of Constantinople Bartholomew I to join him in a photo in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 17, 2025.
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For his part, Trump urged the Chamber’s Republicans to support the “clean” financing bill on Thursday afternoon.
“All camera Republicans must unify and vote yes!” Trump posted on his social media platform. He also repeated his statement that the leader of the Chuck Schumer Senate minority and Democratic legislators want a government closure.
The financing plan proposes $ 30 million in additional security for a period of more than seven weeks, which gives each member of the Congress about $ 7,500 each week to spend on security, more than double their own salary of Congress. The package also includes $ 58 million to comply with the Trump Administration of Supplementary Financing for Executive and Judicial Branch.
That funds supplants a pilot financing program that legislators had used for the safety of members following the shooting aimed at state legislators in Minnesota during the summer.
The minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, has expressed his opposition to the financing bill and it is likely that the Democrats continue their leadership and vote against him.
“We will not support a bill of partisan spending law that Republicans are trying to attack the throat of the US people who continue to destroy medical care. No one who follows what Republicans have done to start the medical care of the US people can reasonably suggest that responsible legislators should do something else that aggressively retreated to protect the medical care of the US people,” he said Jeffries to the reporters this week.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, speaks along with Senator Chris Murphy and Senator Tina Smith during a press conference on freedom of expression legislation, in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 8, 2025.
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The Senate Democrats and the House of Representatives presented a proposal of counterfill funds that would only extend government financing until October 31 and include proposals related to medical care such as Medicaid cuts in Trump’s Megabill that was approved earlier this year. This plan is not a beginning with the Republicans who control the majorities in both cameras.
However, the Republican Plan presents a real challenge in the Senate, if you approve the camera, it requires at least seven democratic votes to reach 60 votes by approval.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, has urged the Senate Democrats to support the short -term measure, arguing that the bill is a clean extension of funds.
“There is nothing here about President Trump,” Thune said on the Senate floor this week. “This is a clean financing resolution, a short -term bipartisan financing resolution, to allow the assignments committee to do its job.”
