{"id":2417127,"date":"2025-03-28T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-on-house-to-pass-dc-funding-fix-to-spending-deal-freeze-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:10:19","slug":"trump-calls-on-house-to-pass-dc-funding-fix-to-spending-deal-freeze-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-on-house-to-pass-dc-funding-fix-to-spending-deal-freeze-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls on House to pass DC funding \u2018fix\u2019 to spending deal freeze &#8211; 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\">32<\/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-calls-on-house-to-pass-dc-funding-fix-to-spending-deal-freeze-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=2417127&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>Former President Donald trump has urged the House of Representatives to swiftly approve a funding fix for Washington, D.C. to prevent a potential $1.1 billion budget cut.In a statement on Truth Social, Trump emphasized the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White ... Releases List of President ...s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">restore public safety<\/a> in the capital, noting the importance of having &#8220;Great Police&#8221; back on the streets. The Senate has already passed the funding &#8220;fix,&#8221; which is designed to allow D.C.&#8217;s 2025 budget to proceed without interruptions, but the House has yet to act on it due to a recess. Trump\u2019s call for action comes as he adn D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are collaborating to enhance the city&#8217;s safety and aesthetics, with initiatives that include increasing police presence and removing homelessness from federal lands. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/off-to-a-bad-start-putin-schools-biden-with-one-phone-call\/\" title=\"Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call\">related executive order<\/a> is set to establish a D.C. safe and Lovely Task Force to tackle these issues.  <\/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 calls on House to pass DC funding &lsquo;fix&rsquo; to spending deal freeze<\/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_2077067\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> called upon the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-of-representatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House<\/a> to pass a funding fix to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>&lsquo;s budget &ldquo;IMMEDIATELY&rdquo; to avoid $1.1 billion in cuts, which would likely sail through the chamber on a bipartisan basis.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to Truth Social, Trump said Washington needs to become &ldquo;CLEAN and SAFE again!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3361639\/jasmine-crockett-top-dem-spox-gop-inflammatory-remarks\/\">Jasmine Crockett dubbed &#8216;Top Dem Spox&#8217; by GOP after string of inflammatory remarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3356743\/house-democrats-profanity-language-trump-verbal-obscenities\/\">House Democrats go blue in more ways than one: Off-color language flies, ratcheting up civic damage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3362030\/stefanik-proud-team-player-un-ambassador-nomination-pulled\/\">Stefanik &#8216;proud to be a team player&#8217; after UN ambassador nomination pulled<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We need our Great Police back on the street, with no excuses from the Mayor, or anyone else,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">president wrote<\/a>. &ldquo;The House should take up the D.C. funding &lsquo;fix&rsquo; that the Senate has passed, and get it done IMMEDIATELY. We need to clean up our once beautiful Capital City, and make it beautiful again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/114240434953893474\/embed\" class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>The continuing resolution, or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">short-term spending deal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3343899\/house-gop-passes-stopgap-funding-bill-help-trump-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">passed by the House<\/a> in March did not include a standard provision for Washington&rsquo;s budget. This forces the city to adhere to the same local budget freeze that Republicans are applying to other federal agencies and return to the levels in its 2024 budget approved by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>To alleviate that, the Senate passed a stand-alone &ldquo;fix&rdquo; that would allow D.C.&rsquo;s 2025 budget to move forward without any disruptions. However, the House left for a week-long recess after avoiding a government shutdown and did not take up the funding fix before then.<\/p>\n<p>If the House does put the funding fix on the floor, it will join a host of legislation expected to come up for votes in the coming weeks, including the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a compromised budget resolution, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3358881\/new-parent-proxy-voting-gop-schism-anna-paulina-luna-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">potentially the new parent proxy voting bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Punchbowl News <\/em>reported that House Republicans will take up the funding fix before the Easter and Passover recess, but the legislation will not likely come to the floor next week. The offices of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s calls to pass the funding fix comes as he and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser have been collaborating on ways to fulfill the president&rsquo;s campaign promise to improve public safety in the nation&rsquo;s capital. Bowser appealed to Trump through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3342293\/construction-crews-begin-dismantling-blm-plaza-near-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several favorable moves<\/a>&nbsp;in recent weeks, helping to soften his views after criticizing the district&rsquo;s crime rates and saying he wants to &ldquo;take over D.C.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3342986\/dc-officials-decry-cr-plan-strip-district-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DC OFFICIALS DECRY CR PLAN TO STRIP DISTRICT OF FUNDING: &lsquo;FISCAL SABOTAGE&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president signed the &ldquo;Make Our Nation&rsquo;s Capital Safe&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3361962\/trump-signs-make-our-nations-capital-safe-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">executive order<\/a> on Thursday, establishing the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force. The body will surge law enforcement officers in public areas, strengthen pretrial detention policies, and crack down on crimes and fare evasion on the D.C. Metro.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the executive order also creates a program to &ldquo;beautify&rdquo; Washington; the National Park Service will rapidly clear all homeless encampments and graffiti on federal lands as part of the program, and there will be restorations for federal buildings, monuments, and memorials.<\/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_2077067\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2077067\"}});<\/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 urges House to quickly pass DC funding fix to prevent $1.1 billion cuts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2417128,"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\/Donald-Trump-unions-collective-bargaining.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[52406,3653,41188,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2417127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dc-funding","tag-house","tag-spending-deal","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Donald-Trump-unions-collective-bargaining.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417127","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\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417131,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417127\/revisions\/2417131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}