{"id":13076,"date":"2025-09-10T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-what-the-cr-timing-dispute-is-really-about\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:02:07","slug":"capitol-agenda-what-the-cr-timing-dispute-is-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-what-the-cr-timing-dispute-is-really-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: What the CR timing dispute is really about"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration wants a stopgap funding plan through Jan. 31. Appropriators are prepared to go their own way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about more than a date \u2014 it\u2019s the latest proxy battle in the larger clash<\/a> over whether to pursue a deal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies and attach it to a plan funding the government through September 2026.<\/p>\n

Appropriators want a much shorter continuing resolution to allow for full-year funding negotiations and a possible health care deal \u2014 Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is pushing for the Friday before Thanksgiving. The White House is allied with GOP hard-liners in wanting a punt past the subsidies\u2019 Dec. 31 expiration date.<\/p>\n

Yet to weigh in directly on the fate of the expiring tax credits is President Donald Trump, who will ultimately need to endorse any agreement.<\/p>\n

A funding-plus-subsidies deal could be the only way to avoid a shutdown at some point this year. That\u2019s not to say it will be easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will probably kill Republican votes in order to add Democrats,\u201d Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) said about the possible tradeoff.<\/p>\n

Democrats are dealing with their own split over when to take a stand. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he thought there could be a \u201cstraightforward\u201d stopgap funding plan now and a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d deal involving the insurance subsidies later. But others, like Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), said now is the time to fight, ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need to have a high price, and so that price could be saving the ACA,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, however, is insisting on a \u201cclean\u201d CR this month \u2014 and he confirmed to Blue Light News Tuesday that means no subsidies extension \u2014 while also floating the possibility of a deal later this year. So if Democrats decide to put up a fight now, that would be an easy recipe for a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

What else we\u2019re watching:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2014 NDAA vote: <\/b>House GOP leaders will need to keep their ranks unified in a narrow, partisan vote Wednesday to approve the annual defense authorization bill. Rules Republicans, in a party-line vote Tuesday, cleared the way for debate on 298 amendments to the NDAA but granted Democrats zero individual amendments for debate. Armed Services ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) has declared he will vote against final passage if the partisan GOP amendments are adopted.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Oversight marks up DC bills: <\/b>House Oversight will mark up more than a dozen bills Wednesday designed to strengthen law enforcement in the District of Columbia and chip away at the capital city\u2019s autonomy to set its own rules and regulations. It comes the same day Trump\u2019s order seizing control of the local police force expires.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Shaheen briefs on ACA credits: <\/b>Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) will brief congressional staff Wednesday at an event hosted by the Small Business Majority and the National Women\u2019s Law Center on the looming expiration of enhanced ACA tax credits. Shaheen authored the original legislation expanding the credits, and her pitch comes as vulnerable House Republicans continue to push their leadership for a one-year extension.<\/p>\n

Jordain Carney, Nicholas Wu and Connor O\u2019Brien contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration wants a stopgap funding plan through Jan. 31. Appropriators are prepared to go their own way. It\u2019s about more than a date \u2014 it\u2019s the latest proxy battle in the larger clash over whether to pursue a deal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies and attach it to a plan funding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}