Democrats release their own stopgap funding bill as House GOP plows forward

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Source: The Hill

03/10/25 9:26 PM ET


Congressional Democrats rolled out their own short-term funding patch to keep the government running beyond Friday’s shutdown deadline, as House Republicans barrel forward with a Trump-endorsed plan in the face of staunch opposition from the other side of the aisle.

The bill would keep the government funded through April, a sharp contrast to the roughly six-month stopgap being pushed by Republicans and President Trump.

“There is a very clear alternative to House Republicans’ plan: immediately passing a short-term patch to prevent a senseless shutdown and finishing work on serious, bipartisan funding bills that invest in working Americans, keep our country safe, and ensure our constituents have a say in how federal funding is spent,” Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), top Democrats on the appropriations committees in the Senate and House, respectively, said in a joint statement.

“Today, we are introducing a short-term continuing resolution to do just that. Congress should work together in a bipartisan way to prevent a shutdown and invest in working families and communities in every part of the country,” they said. The long-shot bid comes as House Republicans are expected to vote on their funding plan as early as Tuesday.

Read more: https://thehill.com/business/budget/5187247-democrats-stopgap-funding-bill/

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House Appropriations Committee Democrats' PRESS RELEASE - DeLauro, Murray Introduce Short-Term Continuing Resolution, Call on Congress to Pass Bipartisan Funding Bills

House Appropriations Committee Democrats' BILL (PDF) - here

Senate Appropriations Committee Democrats' BILL (PDF) - here

[OrlandoDem2]

1. Good! Now let's be their echo chamber and post this everywhere and repeat it over and over!

I’m glad they’re standing for something!

[Autumn]

2. Any idea what's in the bill? The Hill seems to think what's in it is not importanst enough to

mention.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. None of the sources had it but I just found it in the House Appropriations Committee Democrats' Press Release

Have added that to the OP.

[Autumn]

4. Thanks for the links.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. No problem!

[FemDemERA]

6. What's with the $174,000.00 to the Texas

Rep Sylvester Turner’s daughter? Page 5, line 18, Sec. 174 in both the bills.

Inserting individual personal payments in congressional bills doesn’t seem right. Shouldn’t beneficiary funds be part of a reps benefit plan and administrated by an office, not relying on being included in random bills that may or may not become law? What am I missing here?

Turner died this month. He became rep after Sheila Jackson Lee died and did good things. I’m not saying shouldn’t be benefits, I just don’t understand this way of making that happen.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/sylvester-turner-12275763

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He was divorced

and his ex-wife had plead guilty and had been sentenced to prison for a trust fund theft - https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Ex-assistant-district-attorney-gets-prison-in-1858620.php

So perhaps somewhere his daughter was or needed to be explicitly designated as a beneficiary since he was "new", and might not have had chance to complete all of the beneficiary forms.

[FemDemERA]

11. Thank you. I wondered if

It had something to do with him being new. I don’t remember seeing individual people in a bill before and didn’t know that could be done.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. There are literally thousands and thousands of bills

that have been passed over the years and I expect many "little" things like that are inserted in thm (notably an appropriations bills like the supplementals that come out regularly). It's whether you are willing to comb through what can be hundreds and hundreds of pages long and maybe find a "Miscellaneous" section where it is inserted.

[Hotler]

7. ...

[Deminpenn]

8. Good move

Now Dems can vote for something rather than just against the Rs plan. This should also help keep Ds who are being targeted by Rs in the fold

[DallasNE]

10. Nothing Makes Sense Anymore

Nothing is stable right now so how do you pass spending bills in an unstable environment? A CR funds the old reality before 100,000 employees were fired (or whatever the exact number is). Are they just replacing employees with contract employees? I mean, we're dealing with ready, fire, aim with every single government department. Government by chaos will break down. Then what?