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Senate Republicans are discussing a short-term government funding measure, perhaps lasting only two weeks, that would not include any significant money for Ukraine or disaster relief as part of a last-ditch effort to avoid a government shutdown. <\/p>\n
Senate Republicans at lunch debated proposing a clean two-week continuing resolution (CR) to buy more times for themselves to draft a border security amendment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s the idea of a short-term two-week CR,\u201d said one Republican senator who attended the Friday lunch meeting. \u201cIt would have the salutary effect of keeping the government going.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think some people are warming up to it, otherwise we\u2019re going to shut the government down tomorrow night,\u201d the senator said. <\/p>\n
Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) said he thought Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) would take the two-week CR \u201cto the floor shortly to see how it flies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other Senate conservatives spoke up in favor a short-term funding measure without Ukraine money.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a fair amount of chaos and uncertainty. There is a pretty broad agreement that a short-term CR is a much better solution than the long-term CR plus Ukraine funding,\u201d Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one takeaway from lunch is that the majority\u00a0of the conference I think would be much more open to a clean CR,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) predicted a clean short-term government funding stopgap could pass both chambers because it would move without money for Ukraine, which is a poison pill for many conservative Republicans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the most important thing is the CR with the Ukraine funding won\u2019t pass the House,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody needs to know that. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve said in the House.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing that I think will pass the House and the Senate is a clean CR without Ukraine funding on it,\u201d he added. \u201cI will allow consent on any clean CR without Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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