Paul Ryan Confident the House Will Pass Bill to Approve Short Term Funding

January 18, 2018 Share Print 0

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that he had “confidence” the House would pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown.

His comment came as doubts emerged about the Senate’s ability to approve the short-term funding legislation his chamber hopes to pass Thursday. As several Senate Democrats and even some Republicans said they would oppose another stopgap spending plan, third-ranking GOP Sen. John Thune said he was “concerned” the bill would not have 60 votes to pass the Senate, according to Politico.

Ryan put the burden on Senate Democrats to back the proposal — which would extend government funding to Feb. 16 and reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years — and avert a government shutdown. Republicans control the House, Senate and White House, and the House can pass a spending plan with only GOP votes.

The Senate will need support from nine Democrats, if all Republicans back the legislation.

“If the Senate Democrats want to shut the government down, if the Senate Democrats want to deny funding for our troops, if the Senate Democrats want to stop funding CHIP for unrelated issues — that’s a choice they would make, I don’t think it’s a good choice for them to make — but that would be their decision to make,” Ryan told reporters on Thursday.

via CNBC

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Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.