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Trump surrenders. Trump endorses a clean CR for the rest of fiscal year. [1]
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Date: 2025-02-28
With a March 14 deadline to complete this fiscal year’s Congressional budget, it looks like Trump and Congressional Republicans have given up on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Susan Collins, the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins of Maine said “Time is running out.”
Speaker Johnson spent every day since Trump’s Inauguration Day on January 20th trying to round up support for Trump’s massive budget bill with massive cuts to Medicaid, school lunch programs, Food Stamps/SNAP and other social safety net programs -— and FAILED.
From Republican governors in Nevada, House Republican moderates and hardline GOP deficit hawks, Speaker Johnson just couldn’t pull everything together in time before the March 14th deadline to drag Trump’s Trump’s “big, beautiful bill over the finish line.
Trump, last night at 8:47 pm EST, posted his SURRENDER and said “We are working very hard with the House and Senate to pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill (“CR”) to the end of September.”
Some people may have other opinions but I believe this is Trump’s acknowledgement that his “big, beautiful bill” isn’t going to happen after all, at least not until after October 1, 2025 (The federal government's fiscal year runs from October 1 of one calendar year through September 30 of the next.)
From The Hill: Trump on ‘clean’ stopgap funding measure: ‘Let’s get it done!’ Congress has until March 14 to avert a shutdown. Negotiators appear to have hit a wall on whether to limit the president’s powers to spend the money agreed to. “It’s complicated. It’s hard. Nothing about this is going to be easy,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said. Link to Story: thehill.com/...
From Politico: Trump says he wants "a clean, temporary government funding Bill" through Sept. 30, but just how clean does he want it? Signs point to a long stopgap. Signs are increasingly pointing to a full-year government funding patch as Congress barrels toward the March 14 shutdown deadline without a deal on overall spending totals. President Donald Trump endorsed “a clean, temporary government funding Bill … to the end of September” in a social media post Thursday night . That backing came after Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune discussed the idea with Trump during a meeting Wednesday at the White House, two people familiar with the conversation told our colleague Meredith Lee Hill. Trump gave his sign-off in that meeting. A complicating factor: Senior Republicans are considering whether to shoehorn cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency into the government funding bill — a move that threatens to ratchet up tensions with Democrats and raise the chances of a shutdown. Link to story: www.politico.com/...
From Politico: ‘Time is running out’: Lawmakers scramble for a deal to stop a shutdown Short of a major breakthrough in the coming days, Congress is staring down the barrel of yet another crisis over government funding. Negotiators have insisted they are staying at the table to hash out an accord. But there’s no clear strategy to break the logjam, and House Republican leaders privately acknowledge that contingency plans need to be drawn up in case the impasse continues ahead of the March 14 deadline. “Time is running out,” Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins of Maine told reporters. Story on Politico: www.politico.com/…
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