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Republican leaders from both sides of the Capitol will on Wednesday endeavor to settle on a unified GOP plan for approaching government funding negotiations with Democrats ahead of the March government shutdown deadline.<\/p>\n

House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole<\/a> said in an interview late Tuesday night that he and Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> are hoping to land an agreement with their Senate counterparts on \u201ca path forward\u201d on how to fund government programs. \u201cThe best-case scenario is that we walk out united about what we need to do,\u201d the Oklahoma Republican said about the planned Wednesday confab with Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> and Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins<\/a> (R-Maine).<\/p>\n

While Cole said the government funding talks are \u201cnot a competition between the Senate and House,\u201d he touted the House Republican victory in approving their budget resolution on Tuesday as bolstering Johnson\u2019s stance in discussions with Collins and Thune. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe speaker pulled off a big win tonight, so I think he’s in a much stronger position as we sit down tomorrow,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is no disrespect to the Senate: I think we\u2019re the decisive chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n

With federal funding set to run out in 17 days, top lawmakers in both parties have started to preemptively lay blame for a potential government shutdown. While Republicans and Democrats say they are close to a \u201ctopline\u201d deal to set overall totals for military and non-defense programs, Democrats continue to demand conditions to restrict President Donald Trump\u2019s ability to withhold funding Congress has appropriated \u2014 an ultimatum House GOP leaders say is a nonstarter that could spur a funding lapse come March 14 if the other party holds firm to that stipulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want a numbers deal, we can get there. If you want us to try and bind the president of the United States, we’re not going to do that,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma Republican said Democrats have \u201cbargained in good faith,” however, and that he and Collins \u201cstill very much want to negotiate a deal with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cole and the dozen Republican “cardinals\u201d who chair the funding panels on his committee met earlier Tuesday night with Johnson, ahead of the vote on the budget resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe speaker left all options on the table,” Cole said. “He explained where we\u2019re at.” <\/p>\n

If top lawmakers can\u2019t hatch a bipartisan deal to fund the government in the next two and a half weeks, Cole warns that lawmakers will be forced to clear a \u201cfull-year\u201d stopgap that keeps federal cash flowing at current levels through September. And even if an overall funding agreement is reached soon, Congress is likely to need at least a short-term funding patch to wrap up more granular negotiations on each of the dozen funding bills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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