Republicans bristle at Trump request to delay shutdown deadline

Source: The Hill

09/10/25 5:22 PM ET


Republicans are showing early resistance to President Trump’s request for a short-term funding bill, which would kick this month’s government shutdown deadline into next year. The Trump administration’s latest ask of Congress called for a stopgap funding bill, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), to keep the lights on through January.

But some Republicans worry the move would stick federal agencies with another year of flat funding. “I just think that we get into January, get into the new year, that it’s less likely we’ll do any appropriation bills and we’ll have a yearlong CR,” Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a GOP spending cardinal, told The Hill on Tuesday.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who also serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Tuesday that while he recognizes Oct. 1 “is not a doable date” for appropriators to finish their annual funding work for fiscal 2026, he’s not “prepared to support a CR that’s a long-term extension.”

GOP appropriators in both chambers have been pushing for a stopgap to last through sometime in November, at the earliest, to keep pressure on lawmakers to finish their annual funding bills.

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