{"id":2410232,"date":"2025-03-05T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-leans-on-house-rebels-to-support-funding-extension-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T23:40:03","slug":"trump-leans-on-house-rebels-to-support-funding-extension-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-leans-on-house-rebels-to-support-funding-extension-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump leans on House rebels to support funding extension- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-leans-on-house-rebels-to-support-funding-extension-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410232&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump is seeking support\u2062 from the House Freedom Caucus, a group of hardline Republican lawmakers, to push through a stopgap measure that would prevent a government shutdown when current \u2064funding expires on March 14. Key\u200d members of\u200c the \u2063caucus, including Reps.Andy harris, \u200bChip Roy, Scott Perry, and Lauren\u200d boebert, met\u2064 with Trump \u200bto strategize on maintaining government funding at current levels\u2064 through September 30. While \u200bTrump\u200c and\u2062 the\u2063 Freedom Caucus advocate for a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">long-term continuing resolution<\/a> to avoid immediate funding disputes, some Republicans\u2062 and Democrats prefer a shorter-term extension\u200c to allow for more comprehensive negotiations\u2064 over spending. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Roy, who has \u2063previously \u2063clashed with Trump, stated his renewed commitment to advancing the President\u2019s agenda, emphasizing the necessity\u2062 of reviewing the proposed legislation \u2064before \u2064any \u200bvote. meanwhile, tensions are rising within the GOP regarding support for the \u200cfunding extension,\u200b with some \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-crime-legislation-victories-and-failures-over-the-years\/\" title=\"DC ...ime legislation: successes and setbacks\">members expressing reservations<\/a>. The urgency is heightened as lawmakers blame each other for \u200bany potential shutdowns that may \u200coccur. \u2063the \u2062Freedom Caucus aims to\u200c navigate a consensus on government \u2064spending while \u2063Trump backs \u2062thier \u200binitiatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump leans on House rebels to support no-frills funding extension as Democrats balk<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2027951\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> is turning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/freedom-caucus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House Freedom Caucus<\/a>, a small group of lawmakers known for their rebel-rousing tactics, to help usher in a stopgap measure to keep the government open.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Andy Harris (R-MD), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chip-roy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chip Roy<\/a> (R-TX), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Lauren Boebert&nbsp;(R-CO) met with Trump at the White House Wednesday afternoon, where the hardline House Freedom Caucus members discussed tactics to avoid a government shutdown when current funding expires on March 14. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3338444\/house-democrat-robert-garcia-eric-adams-resign-nyc-mayor-oversight-hearing\/\">House Democrat calls for Eric Adams to step down as NYC mayor at hearing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3338071\/house-oversight-hearing-mayors-boston-new-york-denver-chicago-illegal-immigration\/\">House GOP grills sanctuary city mayors over illegal immigration: &lsquo;Public safety nightmare&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3337886\/al-green-censure-outburst-trump-joint-address-to-congress\/\">Al Green headed for censure after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-grills-sanctuary-city-mayors-on-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"... ... grills sanctuary city mayors on illegal immigration\">cane-wielding outburst<\/a> at Trump address<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;There is overwhelming support to back the president&rsquo;s agenda,&rdquo; said Roy who has notably feuded with Trump in the past after backing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) during the presidential primary last year. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3338279\/trump-joint-address-senate-gop-chips-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP CATCHES SENATE GOP OFF-GUARD WITH CALL TO END CHIPS ACT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Roy appears to have changed his attitude toward the Trump administration, telling reporters, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re ready to advance the ball next week and move this agenda forward.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump and the Freedom Caucus are getting behind a plan for a long-term continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the government funded at current levels through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. Democrats and centrist Republicans like Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) have wanted a CR for a shorter period of time to buy time to negotiate a larger appropriations bill that would have various changes from the 2024 baseline.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to work toward getting that continuing resolution in the form where we can pass it just like we did last week,&rdquo; Harris added. &ldquo;To all the people who said you could never pass that reconciliation bill with only Republican votes, wait until next week.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, was referring to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3330032\/house-passes-trump-budget-resolution-mike-johnson-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">narrowly passing<\/a> a GOP budget resolution in a 217-215 vote last week after hard-line conservatives almost tanked the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is also hoping to avoid a government shutdown by passing the long-term CR, a move that in past times House Freedom Caucus members have opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Johnson is pushing forward, with Trump&rsquo;s blessing, and hard-line conservatives appear to be falling in line.<\/p>\n<p>The House members gathered outside the White House also told reporters they advocated to keep spending levels at their current levels for the rest of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The move, Roy said, gives Elon Musk&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency and Russ Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget room to &ldquo;do their job&rdquo; slashing federal spending and the workforce. <\/p>\n<p>But Democrats have stated they won&rsquo;t support a CR that doesn&rsquo;t put limits on Musk&rsquo;s DOGE by requiring the Trump administration to spend funds appropriated by Congress. And with a tight GOP margin in the House, their opposition could prove a headache for Johnson who faces several factions within his party. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> he would not support the stopgap measure through September. He claimed that Roy and Rep. Jim Jordon (R-OH) would have to &ldquo;sell me on it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Rich McCormick just told me he is NOT for the full year to September, clean CR being pushed by House leadership as of right now. <\/p>\n<p>He then pointed to Chip Roy and Jim Jordan&mdash;notoriously against CRs&mdash;who are showing support for it, saying they will have to &ldquo;sell me on it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lauren Green (@lauren_greennn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauren_greennn\/status\/1897344480304623889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sn_handler\/status\/1897386276393005523?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> Republicans intend to move forward with the long-term CR <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114079208701433194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"backed by Trump\">backed by Trump<\/a>. Meanwhile, bipartisan talks continue, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lauraeweiss16\/status\/1897362400426516885?s=46&amp;t=vgOs3L9Jdw1koLNS5Z1G3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> they are working on their alternate spending plan with topline numbers &ldquo;imminent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers, however, have already begun the blame game if a shutdown is not averted. <\/p>\n<p>Perry appeared to blame any possible shutdown on Democrats when speaking to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are literally hoping and praying for a shutdown to stop the momentum of what the president&rsquo;s agenda is and what the America agenda is,&rdquo; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Although House Freedom Caucus members stand behind Trump&rsquo;s desire for the continuing resolution they still want to see the legislation before voting. <\/p>\n<p>Harris claimed, &ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t seen the final &hellip; form of the CR. In concept, the president has said he needs this for his agenda. We support the President&rsquo;s agenda.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The speaker has not yet released the text,&rdquo; Roy added. &ldquo;So until we see the text and we see what we&rsquo;re talking about with respect to anomalies for defense and for veterans, for all of the things that matter, we got to read the bill. I know that&rsquo;s shocking that we want to see 72 hours to read a bill.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lauren Green contributed to this report.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sn_handler\/status\/1897386276393005523\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2027951\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2027951\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump seeks House Freedom Caucus support for funding extension<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2410233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/House-Freedom-Caucus-at-White-House-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51600,51601,51599,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2410232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-funding-extension","tag-government-funding-2","tag-house-rebels","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/House-Freedom-Caucus-at-White-House-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410239,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410232\/revisions\/2410239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}