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One House Republican, Rep. Tom Massie, R-Ky., voted against the legislation.

Trump, for years, has attacked Massie, a fiscal conservative who often votes opposite of the majority of his party.

House Republicans on Tuesday advanced their bill to avert an end-of-the-week government shutdown, teeing up a final vote on the legislation later in the day. The chamber voted 216-214 to adopt a rule — which governs debate on legislation — for Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) continuing resolution. The measure would keep the government funded through Sept. [...]

President Donald Trump is working the phones to convince House Republicans to vote for a government funding bill that would make billions in cuts to infrastructure projects, education, and veterans’ health care while also increasing funding for Trump's deportation force and allowing co-President Elon Musk to make devastating cuts to the federal budget that could crash the economy.House Republicans, who did not negotiate with Democrats on the plan, are hoping to pass the funding bill and leave town, which they think will allow them to blame a government shutdown on Senate Democrats if the Senate fails to pass the legislation before the government runs out of money on Friday at midnight. But with an extremely narrow majority, and with House Democrats in firm opposition to the plan, Republicans will have to keep their entire conference together to get the funding bill over the finish line. And that's requiring Trump to twist arms to convince the handful of GOP holdouts to vote for the bill.Trump is selling the plan to Republicans by telling them that even though the budget doesn’t make the massive cuts to federal agencies that Republicans want, co-President Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency will simply refuse to spend the money Congress is appropriating in the funding bill. Politico reported:Trump and White House officials have been telling GOP holdouts who want more spending cuts that the administration will pursue impoundment—that is, holding back federal funding already appropriated by Congress—according to two Republicans who were in a recent meeting with the president.That’s the main reason House Democrats say they firmly oppose the funding bill, and plan to vote against it en masse.“Republicans temporarily control the House, Senate and the presidency. Instead of using their majority to make life better for the American people, Donald Trump and House Republicans are crashing the economy and hurting hard-working American families. And now extreme MAGA Republicans want to shut down the government,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Tuesday. “The House Republican so-called spending bill does nothing to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Quite the opposite. The Republican bill dramatically cuts health care, nutritional assistance for children and families and veterans benefits. It is not something we could ever support.”Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of KentuckyFor now, according to Politico, Reps. Tony Gonzales, Tim Burchett, Cory Mills, Rich McCormick, Beth Van Duyne, Kat Cammack, Andy Ogles, and Brian Fitzpatrick have not yet agreed to vote for the bill. Meanwhile, Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is a firm no.However, Ogles posted a video to X on Monday night that said that so long as the bill does not change, he will “likely support it.”And Trump is working the phones to get the rest of those lawmakers onboard—something that could happen as Republicans have shown time and again that they are too scared to be on the wrong side of their Dear Leader.Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts made that point Monday night at a House Rules Committee meeting in which Republicans teed up the funding bill for a vote as early as Tuesday before the full House."You probably will have the votes because even the so-called principled conservatives who don’t like [continuing resolutions], I think they are suffering from Victoria Spartz syndrome, where on Monday they are a hard ‘no’ and then on Tuesday they are a hard ‘yes,’" McGovern said, referring to the Indiana Republican lawmaker who said she was voting against Trump's bill to slash Medicaid funding in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich, only to turn around and vote for it.House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said he’s confident the bill will pass, predicting that Massie will be the only Republican to vote “no.”"We'll have the votes. We're gonna pass the CR. We can do it on our own,” Johnson said at a news conference.xMike Johnson: "We'll have the votes. We're gonna pass the CR. We can do it on our own."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-03-11T14:28:50.837ZAs the clock ticks down to Friday at midnight, when the government is set to run out of funding, Trump is growing increasingly angry at Republicans not yet on board with the plan. He publicly threatened to recruit a primary challenger against Massie, who is not expected to change his decision to vote against the funding bill."Congressman Thomas Massie, of beautiful Kentucky, is an automatic 'NO' vote on just about everything, despite the fact that he has always voted for Continuing Resolutions in the past," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED, and I will lead the charge against him. He’s just another GRANDSTANDER, who’s too much trouble, and not worth the fight. He reminds me of Liz Chaney before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!). The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch. DO I HAVE ANY TAKERS???"(It's worth noting Trump has tried to oust Massie in a primary in the past, and failed.)Ultimately, while the government funding bill is not yet on firm ground, Republicans have a few things going for them.First, Punchbowl News reported that as many as five House Democrats could miss the vote, which would give Johnson breathing room. And never underestimate Republicans' ability to fold under pressure from Trump. Thank you to the Daily Kos community who continues to fight so hard with Daily Kos. Your reader support means everything. We will continue to have you covered and keep you informed, so please donate just $3 to help support the work we do.

It becomes a Schumer shutdown at this point

Republicans are unveiling a new plan to fund the government past the coming shutdown deadline next week.

A group of eight House Republicans in the Congressional Hispanic Conference sent a warning shot to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on the chamber’s budget resolution that outlines sweeping cuts as part of advancing President Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda, adding to the complexity of getting enough support in the slim GOP majority to advance it on [...]

New Congressional Hispanic Conference Chair Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) plans to make the group of around a dozen Hispanic House Republicans a more vocal and organized bloc — building off the record Hispanic and Latino support for President Trump and the Republican ticket in the 2024 election. “Everyone talks about us, everyone likes to kind of [...]

U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales also indicates an openness to shutting down some federal agencies.

Ascension Parish residents and local officials are united in their objection to the idea of a proposed test well that could later become a carbon capture and sequestration site.

Donald Trump is getting ready to battle Congress as he returns to the White House. But Washington has a way of pushing back against presidents. New York Times reporter Carl Hulse discusses the prospects of "governing by crisis."

Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas., has been residing in an assisted living facility for the past several months

More than 30 House Republicans voted against the government funding bill to avert a shutdown on Friday night. The legislation cleared the lower chamber with a 366-34-1 vote, surpassing the two-thirds requirement needed as the Republican House leadership brought it up under the suspension of the rules process. Every member of the Democratic caucus, outside [...]

Senate leaders on Friday announced committee assignments for the 2025 session that begins on January 8.

Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, D-Denver, on Friday announced committee assignments for members of the Democratic Senate caucus.

Republicans who vote against party leaders’ preferred candidate could be barred from running in primaries. Lawsuits could follow.

Speaker Mike Johnson is still trying to protect attorney general nominee and now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz from public scrutiny, reiterating his demand that a report from the House Ethics Committee into allegations that Gaetz had sex with minors be kept sealed. The damning report into Gaetz’s behavior was set to be released last week. However, Gaetz abruptly resigned hours after Donald Trump nominated him to be the country’s top law enforcement officer. It was almost certainly an effort to keep the Ethics report from being released, as the committee no longer has jurisdiction over members of Congress once they are out of the chamber.“There’s a very important reason for the tradition and the rule that we always, have almost always followed. And that is that we don’t issue investigations and Ethics reports on people who are not members of Congress,” Johnson said in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “I’m afraid that that would open a Pandora’s box because the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee is limited to those who are serving in the institution.”But not all Republicans agree with Johnson.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Republicans have won full control of Washington, but Democrats will retain two key levers of power to shape legislative outcomes in Donald Trump’s second term.

We're updating results for city council races in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas. Here are the latest returns.

Former President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will end the use of billboards to advertise illegal immigrant rights to those in federal custody.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance tried to stop the bleeding from the Republican presidential ticket, after a comedian made a racist joke about Puerto Rico and Latinos at a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.Vance said Monday night that people need to get "over it" and "stop getting so offended" at the joke, in which Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" and made a vulgar comment about Latinos and ejaculating without protection.“A comedian told a joke, and I don’t think that’s news worth making,” Vance told a reporter at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, according to NBC News.Vance added, “Maybe I’m old fashioned, or maybe I just grew up with a grandmother who had an especially foul mouth. But you know what I do? You know what I do when I think a joke is dumb or not funny? I don’t laugh.”But voters don’t seem to be buying Vance’s argument, as the outrage over the so-called “joke” is not going away. The media, usually averse to calling things racist, has been unafraid to label Trump’s MSG rally as such.

WASHINGTON — The battle for the House is ultracompetitive one week away from Election Day, with both parties bracing for potential narrow majorities come January but seeing their own paths to victory.

Bacon-themed products are on display in Rep. Don Bacon’s campaign office in Omaha, Neb., on Oct. 16, 2024.

The word that comes to mind is “overwhelmed.”

The state of Colorado has suspended a program that allows people to buy a state flag that has been flown over the Capitol. The problem? The program recently gave a flag to Gays Against Groomers.

Latino House Republicans are building out campaign infrastructure to protect their members and grow their numbers, at times directly competing with their Democratic counterparts, who have a huge head start. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is leading efforts to elect more GOP Hispanics to the House through the Hispanic Leadership Trust (HLT), a PAC launched in [...]

The state of Colorado has suspended a program that allows people to buy a state flag that has been flown over the Capitol.

More than 600,000 migrants with criminal records are in American cities and towns. The policies of the Biden-Harris administration have effectively erased our southern border.

it's looking like she's riding into Revelations

Just as Vice President Kamala Harris has gotten the media to play along regarding issues caused by nominally legal immigrants flooding into unprepared cities and overwhelming local services, she faces [...]The post ICE Releases Disturbing News About Illegal Immigrant Murderers and Rapists at Worst Possible Time for Kamala appeared first on The Western Journal.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

The violent street gang known as Tren de Aragua has been making advances throughout the United States and drawing national attention in the process.

U.S. leaders and lawmakers are reacting with joy after the arrest of two Sinaloa cartel leaders this week, putting a dent in the ambitions of a top drug cartel.