Republicans have separated on a strategy with limited days to prevent the government closure

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An intra-large battle is already preparing on how to avoid a government closure before the start of the next fiscal year on October 1.
The legislators of the Chamber and the Senate will have to conclude an agreement on the financing of the federal government at that time – and although this deadline is still in weeks, the recreation of the congress means that they have only 14 legislative days with the two chambers in session to reach an agreement.
It will not be easy, given that the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate work with majorities with three places.
Meanwhile, there are already divisions sown on the viability of a short -term extension of the government’s financing levels for the 2025 financial year (FY2025), known as continuous resolution (CR).
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The Chamber and the Senate only have 14 days in session together before the government’s financing date. (Fox News Digital Photo Illustration)
Some tax conservatives of the room have suggested that they could put themselves behind a CR for the whole year, an idea that traditional republicans and defense hawks fell.
“I think we have to start planning an annual CR,” the journalists told last week. “A funding freezing in a 2.7% inflation framework is in fact a real reduction in the size of the government’s scope.”
Representative Eric Burlison, R-MO., A member of the conservative group, told Fox News Digital: “I would be open to this.” He added, however, “but really, a CR is a kind of surrender.”
Others, like the representative Eli Crane, R-Ariz., Said: “I never like CRS, but we will see how it goes.”
But a GOP legislator who spoke with Fox News Digital under the condition of anonymity argued that this could have dangerous effects on military funding.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said the legislator. “It destroys our defense. I mean, if it is a CR encompassing everything, it is … contrary to everything they said before. But when it stopped the Caucus Freedom?”
The idea of extending government funding levels of the previous year has been traditionally anathema for the Republicans, in particular the Chamber, where legislators have tried for several years to spend 12 individual spending invoices and on subject.

The president of the House Freedom Caucus Andy Harris said that he would support an annual CR. (Getty Images)
However, it was not something that has been accomplished over the years. And with the Republicans having spent months working on the “big and beautiful” “Political Bill of President Donald Trump, the legislators of the GOP admitted that they ended up with a little precious time.
Many of these legislators have suggested that a kind of short -term CR could probably give more time to appropriars to conclude an agreement while avoiding temporary closure.
“I mean, we seem to have trouble getting the credit bills, so we will have to do something,” said representative Lloyd Smucker, R-P-P., Told Fox News Digital. “And I think that if we do a CR that keeps funding levels near where they are now, many members of the conference will support this.”
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A source close to the Chamber’s credit committee told Fox News Digital that they thought that a short -term CR is a probable scenario, but had not mentioned the prospects of a year.
“I do not yet know that we are still there, but if this is the option available, we certainly cannot afford a closure of the government – especially under the total control of the Republicans,” said another member, representative Scott Fitzgerald, R -Wis., Told Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, a small group of conservatives warns that they devote themselves to opposing any form of CR.

The head of the majority of the Senate John Thune and the president of the Mike Johnson room must direct their two chambers towards an agreement. (Getty Images)
“I do not vote for a CR of September 30. It is completely unacceptable,” wrote the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., According to X last week. “I give adequate notice to everyone.”
Representative Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Stressed that the levels of the 2010 financial year have been set under the Biden administration.
“Why would we like to do the Biden policies and budget?” Biggs asked.
And many Republicans of the Senate have fun of the idea of making another extension of the funding of the government, not to mention a one -year CR. Most of them really want to give a chance to the credit process rather than pursuing the status quo of the financing of the last -minute government.
“I have no interest in a one -year CR,” said Senator Mike Rounds, Rs.d., at Fox News Digital. “I think the congress must really assume the responsibility to look at the expenses. I do not think that the CR, which is essentially the continuation of an era of Biden, is appropriate.”
Rounds and other collectors want to see the process through, something that has not been accomplished since the late 1990s. But time is slim for legislators, since the house is already evident and that the upper room can remain for a part of August.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, argued that the credits process, which has been widely sidelined for years because of the CRS, could still work, but warned that it could be compromised by another extension of government funding or more packages of white house attractions.
“We are going to have the opportunity to be on the ground with a credit bill before taking the break for August,” she said. “I therefore refuse to say that the credits are” quite broken “.”
Until now, the Senate credit committee has completed its work on six financing bills and has gone through a key obstacle to the Chamber’s financing bill for military construction and the GOLD last week. The House of Representatives has adopted two of the 12 bills of individual credits, although the two already represent approximately half of the discretionary funding that Congress must establish.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said the credits process was not “broken”. (Jemal Coutesse / Getty Images for JDRF)
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Other Republicans also do not want to see another extension of financing and prefer to focus on the passage of the budget of around 1.7 billion of Trump dollars which he submitted to legislators earlier this year.
“I hope we don’t have to go to a CR, but if we get to a CR, what I don’t want is that I don’t want an eruption expenditure bill, what we have done since I was here,” said senator Rick Scott, R-Fl., Told Fox News Digital.
Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Also present tackling Trump’s budget, but thought that the legislators were already “late at the ball”.
“I would like to go through a regular order where we consider the 12 buckets in the credit bill, every 2,400 line articles, piece per piece on the ground, and make everyone defend their bridges in nowhere,” said Marshall. “I think it will cut a lot of nonsense.”