Early GOP rift emerges as Congress braces for shutdown fight

Source: The Hill

08/05/25 6:00 AM ET


Rifts are emerging between Republicans over how to approach next month’s government funding fight, with some pushing for leaders to try to pass new full-year spending plans and others already expressing openness to another funding patch if it means less spending.

When lawmakers return from their monthlong recess in September, they’ll have just weeks before an end-of-month deadline to keep the government funded or risk a shutdown.

Lawmakers acknowledge they’ll likely need a stopgap funding bill, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), to keep the government open come October and buy time for Congress to strike an overall fiscal 2026 spending deal. But some conservatives have already expressed backing for a full-year CR that would mostly lock in for another year funding levels set in March 2024.

“No. 1, here’s my order, pass the budget,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said last week. “No. 2, no government shutdown.” “No. 3 is, if we’re gonna have a CR, let’s do a full year,” he told The Hill, adding, “If we can’t get it done by now, we’re not going to get done anytime soon.”

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