The Republican duo plans to force the legislators to stay in DC to finance the government

First on Fox: A pair of Congress Republicans is determined to keep the government open and forced their colleagues to stay in Washington, DC, to do so.

Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., And representative Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, plan to introduce legislation that would maintain city legislators until an extension of the government’s financing in the short term, known as continuous resolution (CR), or expense bills are adopted to avoid a partial closure of the government.

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Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., Illustrated in the building of the Dirksen Senate office on March 14, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker)

The Congress still has no plan in place to ward off a closure by the deadline of September 30, and both sides of the aisle have already started the annual game of blame for which party would hold the partial closure.

So far, the Senate has advanced a trio of expenditure bills, while the Chamber has only succeeded two – although the legislators of the lower chamber were preparing to advance the bill on energy and water credits on Thursday.

Lankford said in a statement to Fox News Digital that while the country’s debt slips beyond 37 billions of dollars, “Congress cannot continue to avoid the difficult choices to repair it.”

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Representative Jodey Arrington chairs a meeting of the Chamber’s Budget Committee at the American Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Government closed does not solve the debt problem, it worsens all of this,” he said. “The best way to finish the negotiation of the difficult problem is to keep the congress in Washington until the end of the budget. This puts pressure on the legislators, not on families and important services.”

If the Congress fails to set up an agreement to keep the government open, the duo bill would trigger an automatic CR “over 14 -day periods” which would remain in place until the legislators adopt the 12 bills of credits or would conclude an agreement on a bill.

The bill would also oblige the congress, their staff and the members of the management and budget office (OMB) to stay in DC until the work is finished.

No request for adjournment or recreation should be made for more than 23 hours, compulsory quorum calls every day to guarantee attendance, and no other legislation would be authorized to be examined until a CR or expenditure invoices are adopted.

“In the real world, if you don’t do your job, there are consequences,” Arrington said in a statement at Fox News Digital. “However, when the Congress fails to pass the credits in time, the burden lies outly on workers – taxpayers, the elderly and our men and our women in uniform.”

Meanwhile, collectors in the House and Senate work to find a path to follow on an agreement.

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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., said that he hoped that the CR would come from the Chamber, on the basis of the negotiations between the president of the chamber credits, Tom Cole, R-Okla., And the president of the Credits of the Senate Susan Collins, R-Maine.

“My hope would be that whatever CR is like, it is clean and that it allows us to buy time to make a regular credits process,” he said.

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But the move of the White House last week to cancel $ 4.9 billion in foreign aid funding thanks to a “pocket termination”, some Republicans fear that he can compromise the bipartite nature of the credit process in the Senate, where Democrats will be necessary to keep the government open.

Until now, it seems that the Democrats of the Senate are not ready to completely overthrow their Republican counterparts, but require that they be involved in negotiations to create a CR.

“If the Republicans of the Chamber, however, take a different path and try to browse a partisan CR without any contribution from the Democratic members of the Congress, and they suddenly note that they do not have the votes they need to finance the government, well, then it is a republican closure,” said Senator Patty Murray, of Washington.