Republican duo plan forces lawmakers to stay in DC to fund the government

First on Fox: A pair of congressional Republicans are determined to open the government and are willing to force colleagues to stay in Washington, D.C. to complete the task.

senator James RankfordR-Okla. and R-Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington plans to introduce legislation that will keep lawmakers in town until short-term government funding extensions (called Continuing Solutions (CRs)) or spending bills are passed on to avoid partial Government shutdown.

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Congress still has no plans to block the closure by the September 30 deadline, and both sides of the aisle have already started the annual blaming game of which party will have partially closed.

So far, the Senate has raised three spending bills, while the House has only passed twice – although members of the House of Commons are elevating Thursday’s energy and water grant bill.

Rankford said in a statement to Fox News numbers State debt Crawling over $37 trillion, “Congress cannot avoid the difficult choice to solve the problem.”

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Rep. Jodey Arrington, Chairman of the Housing Budget Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on May 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg by Getty Images)

“Close down the government doesn’t solve the debt problem, which makes the situation worse,” he said. “The best way to end the negotiation problem is to leave Congress in Washington until the budget is completed. This puts pressure on legislators, not families and important services.”

If Congress fails to reach a deal to keep the government open, the two-person bill will trigger an automatic “rolling 14-day period” of automatic CR until lawmakers pass all 12 appropriation bills or enter a deal with the speeding bill, which will remain the same.

The bill will also force Congress, their Office of Employees and Management and Budget (OMB) to stay in DC until work is completed.

This will require no adjournment or rest periods of more than 23 hours, mandatory Quorum calls daily to ensure attendance, and no other legislation is allowed to be considered until the CR or expenditure bill is passed.

“In the real world, if you can’t get the job done, there are consequences,” Arlington said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “However, when Congress fails to pass the grant on time, the burden falls directly on hard-working Americans – taxpayers, seniors and our men and women in uniforms.”

Meanwhile, House and Senate approvers are working to find a way forward in the deal.

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Senate Majority Leader John ThuneRs.D. He said he hopes that CR will be based on negotiations between the housing grant chairmen, which originated from housing Tom ColeR-Okla. and Senate Appropriations Chairman Susan Collins, R-Maine.

“I hope it’s clean regardless of the CR looks and allows us to take some time to go through the regular grant process,” he said.

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But the White House acted last week to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funds through a “bag revocation”, with some Republicans worried that it could harm the bipartisan nature of the Senate funding process, where Democrats are needed to keep the government open.

So far, it appears that Senate Democrats are not ready to fully assist their Republican counterparts, but instead ask them to participate in negotiations to develop a CR.

“But if House Republicans go a different route and try to jam through partisan CR without any comment from Democrats in Congress, they suddenly find that they don’t have the votes of our caucus to fund the administration, that’s the closure of Republicans, that’s a Republican shutdown,” said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington.