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White House, GOP leaders sway votes for rule on spending bill
↵↵After a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep.
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↵↵After a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep.
↵↵President Donald Trump publicly endorsed the deal Thursday night and called on both parties to support it.
Trump postedon his Truth Social platform that Democrats "want Trillions of Dollars to be taken from our Healthcare System and given to others, who are not deserving — People who have come into our Country
"We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary [Pete] Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that his administration will make sure military personnel get paid Wednesday when their checks are due, despite the partial government shutdown.
Trump later clarified in a Truth Social post that negotiations haven’t begun yet, and that he’d only talk to the Democrats about health care once they "allow our Government to re-open."
Trump said in a social media post that he’d meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to go over "which of the many Democrat Agencies" should be cut as the GOP seeks to make the shutdown
And with neither side willing to blink so far, the tit-for-tat verbal jousting playing out on social media may be inching the country closer to a shutdown that neither party claims to want.
wrote on his Truth Social media platform.
Current funding for federal agencies expires after Sept. 30, with a partial government shutdown beginning the next day unless President Donald Trump signs stopgap legislation.
Last week, Trump posted a photo to Truth Social of Edward Coristine, who is known as "Big Balls," shirtless and bloodied, after allegedly being beaten by two 15-year-olds.Â
"A shutdown would allow DOGE to shift into overdrive," Schumer said, giving Trump and Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk "a much broader field of destruction."
Democrats have denounced the CR as a "blank check" and a "power grab" by the Trump administration to spend money however it wishes.
Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who voted against the CR, drew a threat from Trump to work against his reelection next year.
President Donald Trump gave the measure his seal of approval on Saturday, which could be what Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., needs to get it through the House when the chamber votes, likely on Tuesday.
As the fires still raged, Trump went to Truth Social and placed blame for the fires on Newsom.
"Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good Deal for the American People," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
should go from here." ’In the middle of the game’ Johnson offered no hint of what a Plan B could look like as he spent days trying to shore up support for his bill that included a priority pushed by Trump
Trump has without evidence stoked on social media and in a presidential debate the idea that Democrats were looking to add noncitizens to voting registration lists and vote, and House panels held hearings
Two of the times he broke with Trump in 2020 on the same bill, the annual defense authorization that Trump vetoed.