{"id":35877,"date":"2025-03-12T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/big-win-trump-touts-federal-funding-bill-passage-in-the-house\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:32:35","slug":"big-win-trump-touts-federal-funding-bill-passage-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/big-win-trump-touts-federal-funding-bill-passage-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Big win’: Trump touts federal funding bill passage in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> touted the House\u2019s passage of a funding bill to keep the government up and running, labeling it a “big win” for America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House passed the funding measure by a 217 to 213 margin Tuesday evening, mostly along party lines. The legislation is now headed to the Senate, where lawmakers must pass the measure before Friday or else face a partial government shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Big WIN for Republicans, and America tonight,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday night. “Congratulations to ALL!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House referred Fox News Digital to Trump\u2019s post when asked for additional comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP-BACKED BILL TO AVERT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PASSES HOUSE DESPITE MUTINY THREATS\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The funding bill largely extends funding levels approved during fiscal 2024 as part of the House\u2019s continuing resolution (CR) until Sept. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, there are some funding changes included in the resolution, including an additional $8 billion in defense spending, $6 billion in veterans healthcare and nearly $1 billion to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations. The measure also cuts $13 billion in non-defense spending.<\/p>\n

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., broke with Republicans and voted against the measure Tuesday evening, while Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, also split with his party and voted in favor of the measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has said he plans to vote against the measure in the Senate because he claims it doesn\u2019t do enough to curb government spending. As a result, the bill will require support from at least eight Democrats to pass the 60-vote threshold.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TOP CONSERVATIVE GROUP VOWS TO WORK CLOSELY WITH PRESIDENT AFTER PAST CLASHES WITH TRUMP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/a> told reporters Tuesday that Trump pushed all Republicans to vote for the continuing resolution, cautioning that voting against it would stall progress the Trump administration has made so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He is encouraging all Republicans to vote yes on this clean CR, which freezes funding at current levels and will prevent the Democrats from getting their long-awaited government shutdown,” Leavitt said Tuesday. “Voting against this CR will hurt the American people and kill the incredible momentum that President Trump has built over the past 51 days.”<\/p>\n

The House Rules Committee passed the legislation on Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Elizabeth Elkind and Kelly Phares contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump touted the House\u2019s passage of a funding bill to keep the government up and running, labeling it a “big win” for America.\u00a0 The House passed the funding measure by a 217 to 213 margin Tuesday evening, mostly along party lines. The legislation is now headed to the Senate, where lawmakers must pass … 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-35877","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\/35877","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=35877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}