The backdrop of Trump’s speech before Congress is a possible closure of the government

A possible closure of the government was combined when President Donald Trump goes to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, where he will surely face a divided audience after his sustained effort to reduce the bureaucracy of the United States.

The main leaders of the Congress have not yet reached an agreement to maintain the lights on in the capital of the Nation before the deadline of March 14 to finance the federal government, and the time is falling short.

As the Democrats seek to defend public officials from the massive shots, their leaders have pressed so that the language would be inserted into a government financing bill to ensure that the Trump administration adequately directs the funds assigned by Congress, an effort to delay the Department of Government Efficiency Efficiency Efficiency efforts of Elon Musk.

But Republicans have made it clear that they will not accept those demands, calling them unprecedented.

To illustrate the gigantic abyss among them, many Democrats bring recently fired federal workers to attend Trump’s address to show the impact of the cutting of Federal Musk agencies.

Of his five guests, the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., invited two federal workers dismissed, including a USAID worker and a veteran of the disabled army.

The Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego de Arizona invited Kyle Rahn, a disabled veteran of the army who served three Iraq tours before working in the National Security Department, which was fired last month.

Democratic representative Brad Schneider of Illinois invited Adam Mulvey, a 20 -year -old army veteran who served several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and was fired from his role in the Federal Lovell Health Care Center in Spring Grove, Illinois, on February 13.

The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, suggested that Duxes’ cuts should be part of Fiscal Government’s financing negotiations 2026, which kicks the proverbial can to another year.

But the speaker said that the house controlled by the Republican Party is looking at a draft Financing Law of the Clean Government in the short term that would extend the current levels of expenses until the end of September 2025, but the details of its strategy remain without being clear.

A short -term measure “would ensure that the Government can remain open while we begin to incorporate all these savings that we are finding through the effort of dogs and these other sources of income that President Trump’s policies are bringing to the table,” Johnson argued in “Meet The Press” of NBC on Sunday.

Trump supported this plan last week, asking for a continuous clean resolution, even when hard -line Republicans press Johnson so that they do not join again in a bipartisan bill with the Democrats, who are not inclined to help Trump with anything.

Some Republicans have already expressed concerns, including Texas Republican representative, Tony Gonzales, who says he did not vote in any continuous resolution.

“I am not in the CR. Congress must do your job and approve a conservative budget! CR are the code for the continuous deposit of fraud, waste and abuse, ”Gonzales published in X.

The moderate representative of the Republican Party of Nebraska, Don Bacon, raised concern about a clean measure since military financing would remain flat.

“A continuous resolution (CR) is bad for our military and weakens our national security. A CR means that new weapons programs cannot begin. A one year means that we do not take the construction of an army that will deter China, Russia and Iran, ”Bacon said in X.

Johnson can only afford to lose a Republican if all members are present and vote and will surely need to trust democratic votes to avoid a closure. Thirty -four Republicans voted against the current 3 -month financing measure that will expire in less than two weeks, illustrating the need for bipartisanship to the edge of a closure.

Meanwhile, the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the Republicans of moving away from the negotiations, rejecting the characterization of the situation by the speaker.

“Democrats from the House of Representatives are committed to finance the government in a way that promotes economic well -being, health and safety of everyday Americans,” said Jeffries in a statement on Sunday.