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I prefer, obviously, always prefer to move bills, individual bills, or at least bundled, packaged. But, you know, we're running out of time, and so we've got a short window to work with,
Thune said on Tuesday
We’re negotiating right now, and we’re not going to get into the private details,
he told reporters at his weekly press conferenceI would say, at this point, all options are on the table,
he addedThere is by no means agreement on poison pills or new riders that have never been part of these end-of-the-year bills,
she saidIf Republicans don't want to govern, they just need to give us a couple votes and we'll put Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker chair,
he saidThey want to limit, tie the hands of the president on what he is able to do with the expenditures in the executive branch — that’s never been done before,
Johnson said Tuesday
I do not. But my focus is on getting an agreement on the money, on the funding.”
Asked whether she thinks it’s possible to strike a deal unless Democrats relent on their executive power demands, Collins told NBC News
If you appropriate the money — you agree in the House, you agree in the Senate, the president signs the legislation — how can you then decide that that’s not what it’s going to be? Now there are some in the administration that would like to do that, and we just want to be sure that what we’re doing, make sure that the dollars ... are going for the purposes intended,
DeLauro told NBC NewsWe’re close on the numbers. We’re pretty far apart, still, on trying to limit presidential powers,
Cole told reportersThat is the absolute bare minimum, and it is frankly not asking a whole lot. Republicans should not be so eager to let Elon Musk cut off cancer research or clean energy jobs in their districts. They should not follow Elon towards a shutdown,
she addedWe have made some suggestions, and they have them,
she saidThere’s not much middle ground there. You either have it or not,
he saidAnd it creates a whole new host of separation-of-powers questions anyway that could make the whole thing unconstitutional,
he saidThey’re closer to it, they’re more granular, they’ll understand and be able to really implement thematically what they’re trying to do with DOGE, ... but to avoid some of the unintended outcomes that they have to go back and reverse.”
Tillis said,
I can tell you, it has to be done,
Bean saidWe will not give them one single vote, and I will not be silenced because we will continue to fight."
Vowing that Democrats would not support the resolution, Stansbury declared
This is not a budget resolution—this is a blueprint for suffering,
she said
Yeah, I think we're looking through and considering all the various possibilities at this point of how to comply with it,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital in a statement
There's still not agreement. We're close, but there's still not agreement on the topline and the allocation under that for defense and non-defense. I've made four different offers. The last one was a joint offer with Tom Cole, and it was a very fair offer, as were all the others."
She explained
We cannot just reach an agreement, pass a bill, and then stand by while President Trump rips our laws in half,
Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash., said recently, her office noted