Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) correctly points to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for the funding fight itself.
In Congress’s upper House, Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has already backed the clean funding bill, which includes a funding boost for the United States Secret Service.
By providing roughly six months of government funding, the Republican Speaker’s plan would have prevented a second funding fight later this year and ensured that should Trump win November’s election, his agenda and budget would be what dictates Congress’s priorities.
While House conservatives view Johnson’s initial stop-gap funding plan’s defeat as a victory and believe the threat of a government shutdown gives them greater leverage over Senate Democrats and Joe Biden’s White House, in truth, it has likely paved the way for a current “clean” continuing resolution and another funding fight in December.
The new continuing resolution sets up a second funding fight just before the lame-duck Congress ends—and gives Democrats another chance to potentially hamper Trump’s budget priorities.
The National Pulse breaks down where the current funding fight began, where things stand now, and where it will likely head in the next few critical days.
While continuing resolutions are not unusual for Capitol Hill as a stop-gap measure to buy time for Congress to—in theory—pass larger budget bills, the government funding drama is always heightened heading into a presidential election.
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