The GOP of the Senate struggled with Trump Aid Cutts before financing the deadline

The Senate Republicans are made with President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $ 4.9 billion in foreign aid funding and that ramifications may be on the imminent deadline to finance the government.

The Democrats of the Senate had previously warned after the first round of the GOP with views that any other attempt at funding approved by the Congress would be a red line, and that this could lead to Democratic legislators holding their support for an extension of the financing of the short -term government, known as the continuous resolution (CR).

The Trump administration’s decision last week last week with a pocket termination, which bypasses the 45 -day window necessary for a typical packet of claws, rocked the Democrats in the Senate and has alarmed some Republicans to find a path to keep the government open.

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President Donald Trump in the White House oval office in Washington, DC, August 6, 2025. (Bonnie Cash / Upi / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“The last thing in the world we have to do is give our Democratic colleagues any reason not to try to go ahead with the credits process,” said Senator Mike Rounds, Rs.d.

“It concerns me, and once again, we must put the credits process on the right track,” he continued. “We are going to do our best to get this thing this year. We are committed. It is better that the Congress resumes its authority on this subject. Stop taking continuous resolutions, do the credits process.”

Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., On the other hand, was everything for the move and was not worried about the impact it could have on a closure.

“I am concerned with more expenses of these negotiations,” he told Fox News Digital. “Once again, you are not going to worry about everything that cuts expenses or reduces the size and scope of the government. I am absolutely for that, no matter how we do it.”

However, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., will probably need democratic support to advance the bills of spending, not to mention a CR by September 30, thanks to the threshold of the obstruction of the upper chamber, given that a handful of republicans never vote for the financing of extensions.

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The majority leader in the Senate, Senator John Thune, speaks during a press briefing at the American Capitol on July 22, 2025 in Washington, DC (Getty Images / Alex Wong)

The cycles and other members of the Senate credits committee are favorable to highlighting with the bills of expenditure and have so far managed to advance three with bipartite support.

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, who in July warned that the first packet of claws of $ 9 billion in Trump would have “great implications” on the credits process, argued that the Democrats in the Congress were united in their desire to continue working on invoices with the Republicans.

He warned that the Republicans “would face their greatest test under the Trump administration”, either to work through the aisle or to face a closure.

“However, near the deadline for funding, the Republicans threaten once again to go alone, heading for a closure,” said Schumer.

Thune also remained determined to see the legislators adopting the dozens of invoices necessary to finance the government, but recognized “inevitably, it seems that (we) need a CR for a certain time in the foreseeable future”.

And he warned that the Democrats could try to use the last package of claws “as an excuse” so as not to finance the government.

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“This is all that it will be an excuse, because they know that I am engaged, the Senator (Susan) Collins is committed, our conference is committed to work constructively to try to finance the government through the normal credits process,” he said.

Meanwhile, some Republicans wondered if turning to Clawbacks was the best way to fight discounts and argued that such measures were already cooked in the annual process of credits.

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When the news of the package has surfaced, the president of Senate credits, Susan Collins, R-Maine, has accused efforts of recovery of “appropriate funds without approval of the congress constitute a clear violation of the law”.

Senator Kevin Cramer, RN.D., told Fox News Digital that he was not worried about the legality of the decision to know if turning to the Clawbacks was “the most effective way to obtain cutting cuts”.

“I think the credits process is a better way, and we have had some success, and I would like to continue continuing and trying, you know, avoid a stop and go back to regular order,” he said.