Should Republican leaders have to abandon their current plan to pass a government funding bill at “flat” levels, hard-liners warn that another fiscal framework is at risk: the budget to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Rep. Chip Roy, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, cautioned Tuesday that fiscal conservatives will demand changes to the budget measure Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pushed through the House last week if Congress ends up clearing a government funding package with fresh, higher spending levels.
It’s a warning that comes 10 days until a government shutdown and amid stark disagreement among House and Senate Republicans about how to adopt a single budget resolution that would pave the way for a party-line package of tax cuts, energy policy, military funding and border security investments — the key pillars of Trump’s agenda.
With the government shutdown deadline looming ahead of March 14, Trump is personally lobbying House Republicans to support a “full-year” stopgap funding measure to keep the military and non-defense agencies running on static budgets through September.
