{"id":35700,"date":"2025-03-11T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-house-voting-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown-today\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:47:19","slug":"the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-house-voting-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-house-voting-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the House voting to avoid a government shutdown today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House<\/a> is poised to debate and vote on an interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown early Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This bill renews all Biden-era funding numbers. It also cuts the budget for Washington but allows the Pentagon to begin new programs and increases military pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is all about the math. The margin could be tight. That is why Vice President JD Vance<\/a> is on Capitol Hill meeting with House Republicans behind closed doors at 9 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: HERE WE GO AGAIN (AGAIN)\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump unloaded last night on Rep. Thomas Massie, <\/a>R-Ky., threatening a primary challenge. Massie is a hard no.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The administration and House GOP leaders believe a shutdown would be catastrophic and interfere with adopting Trump’s agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Democratic leaders oppose the package. They believe Republicans should pass the bill themselves since they didn\u2019t negotiate with Democrats. However, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., refused to answer when asked twice yesterday if all Democrats would vote nay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

VIDEO OF DEMS RAILING AGAINST PAST SHUTDOWNS UNVEILED BY GOP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Democrats are somewhat torn. On the one hand, they believe a shutdown could impede DOGE<\/a>. On the other, they fear that a shutdown could embolden Elon Musk to shutter programs that are closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The vote comes today sometime after 4 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even if the bill passes, the measure faces an unclear future in the Senate. Even if all 53 Senate Republicans vote yes, they need seven Democrats to break a filibuster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deadline to fund the government comes at 11:59:59 p.m. ET Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House is poised to debate and vote on an interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown early Saturday morning.\u00a0 This bill renews all Biden-era funding numbers. It also cuts the budget for Washington but allows the Pentagon to begin new programs and increases military pay.\u00a0 It is all about the math. The margin … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}