Donald Trump has unleashed a Republican legislator who bends the federal financing plan of the speaker Mike Johnson.
Johnson, in consultation with Trump, has proposed a plan this weekend that will offer enough money for the government to stay open until September 30.
The house is expected to vote for the measure on Tuesday afternoon and it is in the air or it will pass.
The speaker's plan is called a continuous resolution (CR) and it effectively keeps government financing at the same levels where it has been since the administration of Joe Biden.
If a CR is not accepted before Saturday, the federal government will be partially closed, which means that some agencies will not reopen until the congress has adopted a financing account.
In anticipation of the vote on Tuesday morning, Vice President JD Vance met Huis Republicans and reportedly warned them privately that if the closure arises, the Gop will bear the victim of the debt.
However, Public Trump claims that Democrats will be blamed if the financing is used up.
But rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., An avid opponent of short-term financing accounts that have voted against many CRs in the past has said that he will vote against the plan supported by Trump, which has asked the president as furious.
“Congressman Thomas Massie, from beautiful Kentucky, is an automatic 'no' voice about just about everything, despite the fact that he has always voted for continuous resolutions in the past,” Trump said.
The American representative Thomas Massie talks to the American representative Marjorie Taylor Greene prior to the address of US President Donald Trump a joint congress session last week. Massie has said he will vote against Trump and Johnson's public funding plan on Tuesday
Trump has collaborated with speaker Mike Johnson to prevent a government closure in his first 100 days in office
“He should be primaried, and I will lead the indictment against him,” claimed Republican president, indicating that he wants someone to run against Massie next year.
“He is just another brighter, who is too many problems and is not worth the fight,” the president continued.
Then Trump delivered another blow to the Republican of Kentucky.
'He reminds me of Liz Chaney for her historical, record -breaking fall (loss!). The people of Kentucky will not be in front of it, just look at. Do I have a towers ??? '
But Massie has shared that he is against the CR because it does not use the expenses useful, a concern that is shared by hard-right conservatives.
“This week I am not voting for the budget for continuous resolution (omnibus of the copy-paste),” Massie posted this weekend on X. “Why would I vote to continue with the waste fraud and abuse that Doge has found?”
“We were told that the CR would let us March in March when we would fight. Here we are in March, again punishing! '
Massie is so fierce against Stop-Gap financing measures that he held a press conference in May 2024 to announce a motion to kick Johnson from leadership.
In particular, De Kentuckian voted against all five CRS that Johnson has set since he took over the power at the end of October 2023.
His opposition that goes around is no less problematic for the speaker and Trump.
Massie speaks at a press conference outside the Capitol building and announces a motion to leave the speaker Johnson in the House of Representatives in May 2024
Massie has voted against every CR that Johnson has set up for a voice
Despite the opposition of Massie, Johnson de Kentuckiaan defended against Trump's call to be too primary. He noticed how Massie is a friend and how he will be a difficult established operator to defeat and for a potential primary challenger
Since the Republican majority of the speaker in the house is so slim, 218 – 214, the party can only afford to lose two votes on Tuesday's CR -Push.
The opposition of Massie brings Johnson and Trump into a precarious position, because just a Republican voice no, they will not have enough votes to have the expenditure account taken.
And there are many Republicans who have spoken their aversion to CR, including Rep. Tim Burchett, r-tenn., Who said he expected a phone call from Trump to talk about his voice about this issue.
When asked at a press conference on Tuesday morning whether Massie should be primarily, as Trump suggested, Johnson came across the defense of the Kentuckian.
Massie is in 'the established protection program', 'shared Johnson and noticed how difficult it would be to dismiss the Republican.
On Monday, Massie and Trump's campaign leader Chris Lacivita also spit in a spit.
The American Vice President JD Vance arrives on Tuesday for a Republican Conference meeting of the Republican Conference in the American Capitol. Republicans were found on the vote of the house about a continuous resolution that will offer a six -month financing extension and will prevent a closure of the government
After placing his opposition against the Financing Act, Lacivita replied 'Tick Tock Tommie', an indication that the days of massie are numbered.
'Someone thinks they can control my voting card by threatening my re -election. Guess what? Does not work on me, “the legislator shot back.
'Three times I had a challenger who tried to be more Maga than me. Nobody has caught 25% because my voters prefer transparency and principles over blind faith. '
Massie still has to tackle Trump's claims.
Massie, who is wearing a reversal pin that shows the American debt higher, has always been against CRS and is very pronounced about balancing the national budget.
Gleminded Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul noted that he believes in the same way that the congress is not allowed to pass other CR and says “Hell no!”
“Despite the findings of Doge van Loony Left-wing USAID programs, the Republican Expenditure Act continues to finance the very foreign aid that Elon Musk proposes to cut!” He wrote in a message on social media.
'The bill continues to spend on the inflated pandemic levels and will add $ 2 t to the debt this year. Count me like a hell no! '
Johnson has passed CRs since he took over power in the congress, and those spending levels were determined by Democrats during an earlier government.
