By Sarah Ferris, NCS
(NCS) — Donald Trump signed a sprawling spending package deal into legislation Tuesday, ending the partial government shutdown after simply three days however creating one other funding cliff for the Department of Homeland Security in two weeks.
Trump and GOP leaders had pushed laborious for his or her members to fall in line regardless of their very own non-public grumblings concerning the invoice, desirous to keep away from a debilitating shutdown just like the one which paralyzed Washington for 43 days final fall.
The House earlier Tuesday handed the package deal in a tough-fought victory for each Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who needed to cajole the fractious GOP convention to again a deal that solely quickly funds DHS and excludes sure conservative priorities.
Both GOP leaders spent the final a number of days furiously attempting to quash a final-minute conservative revolt, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, over calls for for stricter voter ID legal guidelines. Luna and others had demanded {that a} voter ID invoice be connected to the funding package deal — ignoring their celebration leaders who wished to punt the problem and keep away from a dragged-out funding battle.
Trump personally spoke with Luna and others on the White House, along with phoning particular person members and dispatching his workforce to Capitol Hill to assist lock down the votes for a swift finish to the partial shutdown. GOP leaders have privately tried to assuage conservative holdouts that they’d discover one other strategy to push for the stricter voter ID invoice, whereas acknowledging it doesn’t have the votes within the Senate.
Rep. Andy Ogles, who withheld his votes due to the voter ID invoice, mentioned he didn’t get any commitments from management however added, “I think we’re working on a plan.”
For many government businesses, Congress’ spending invoice now gives lengthy-awaited certainty after months of contentious funding talks, in addition to that prolonged fall shutdown. The invoice — which funds three-quarters of government businesses — would barely scale back Congress’ spending general, however rejects cuts to packages just like the NIH, Pell Grants, and election safety grants.
It additionally funds Trump priorities like a navy pay increase and new investments in air security. And it slashes funding for worldwide support packages, following the White House’s choice to shutter USAID final 12 months.
But Congress couldn’t agree on a price range for one key division: the Department of Homeland Security.
“The real fight begins over the Homeland bill,” Johnson informed reporters Tuesday, previewing the bruising political battle that lies forward with Democrats over modifications to federal immigration enforcement.
Trump had privately agreed to the DHS funding stopgap with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as a strategy to diffuse the escalating nationwide debate over ICE after the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Trump and Democrats now have two weeks to strike an settlement on methods to rein in federal legislation enforcement, particularly Immigration and Customs Enforcement — or face one other shutdown for the division that features businesses from TSA to FEMA.
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