US politics – Trump making to calls to try to avert government shutdown

The Speaker of the House, at present Mike Johnson, is where the buck stops with trying to get the Continuing Resolution (this is the stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown, usually abbreviated in this context to CR) passed.

Johnson, though, has a wafer-thin majority of Republicans in the House. And many Republicans want the CR to include measures to curtail government debt, instead of it growing at a breakneck pace. Hence, their support is wavering.

Trump has been enlisted in efforts to put the pressure on to support the debt-growth bill. Government funding runs out on March 14. The pressure is indeed on.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.