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The Passage of the continuous resolution Keeping the government open was a remarkable example of the revolutionary movement that makes us live.
Traditionally, a continuous resolution requires a dual agreement to get through the Senate.
Republican leaders meet democratic leaders to discuss it. And the continuous resolution becomes much more expensive – and wins much more ideological language.
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After the 2024 elections, many assumed experts said that President Donald Trump would have a hard time getting legislation through the extraordinarily narrow house Republican majority or beyond the threshold of 60 votes of the Senate.
The Republicans of the house have been in turmoil for ten years. Speaker John Boehner retired at the beginning of October 2015. His successor, speaker Paul Ryan, announced that he would not run again in the mid -2018. There was a defeat with 40 seats in that interim election. Then speaker Kevin McCarthy worked for four years to overgrow a Republican majority, but a small, bitter faction simply made his speakership untenable. It cost 15 ballot papers for McCarthy to win the speakership. He was then forced on October 3, 2023 by the same bitter dissidents.
Chuck Schumer, Left, John Thune, Right (Reuters)
Finally, speaker Mike Johnson came forward as the consensus candidate for the speaker after three controversial members have not won 218 votes. Because Johnson had not been in leadership, it represented a huge leap in responsibility. This led many to believe that he could not control the office, which eventually forced Boehner, Ryan and McCarthy.
Speaker Johnson has proved much more successful – and much more strategic – than someone expected. He also decided that he could only be effective as an ally of President Trump.
Senate majority leader John Thune was a veteran of the house who served in the Senate for 20 years. At 64 he is a generation younger than former leader Mitch McConnell. Thune has proved to be a good partner for President Trump and speaker Johnson. The three worked hard to get on the same page and work together to get things done.
If you had told a so -called expert on January 20 that Republicans could get a continuous resolution of seven months to keep the government open through the house for the rest of the tax year with only Republican voices, he or she would probably not have believed you. If you had told that the bill would be difficult for the Senate Democrats to undermine, they would have thought you were dreaming. Finally, if you told them that the speaker Johnson, President Trump and majority leader Thune would exceed the Democrats and give them no choice but to take on the constant resolution or to close the government, the experts would have rejected you.
American speaker of the house Mike Johnson shakes hands with President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
But with the help of Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, President Trump fought what would have been mentioned in Chess A fork.
A fork is an institution where your opponent is in danger. Both cannot be stored. The only choice is which to sacrifice.
The constant resolution that came out of the house was completely republican. It cut the expenses. It shifted the spending of domestic policy lines of republicans against immigration enforcement and defense. What is even more important, it has rewritten the current law to give President Trump and Elon Musk a greater flexibility to reduce expenditures and waste.
The Democrats were furious that they were taken out of the process. They were desperate to defeat the Republican effort, so that they could then offer to work with them and to develop a much more liberal and anti-change bill.
When the Democrats did not stop the speaker Johnson, they only had two choices. Both were painful.
They could all no. If the Senate Democrats were to do this, the Republicans would not be able not to pass the filibuster, and so the government would close. In this case, getting up against President Trump might have been a political victory for their base. But it would not play well with the rest of the country.
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Then the Democrats realized that President Trump was able to cut more programs and reform the bureaucracy under a key scenario than he could take the bill that they thought he already granted him too much power.
So the choice for the Democrats was to assume that President Trump gave more authority to reduce the government – or to stop the bill and to give him even more authority.
President Trump, speaker Johnson and majority leader Thune played this round brilliant and won a huge victory.
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They also proved that they could endure tax cuts, deregulation and the other priorities on which President Trump and the Republicans campaigned in 2024.
This was a big win with huge implications for the future.
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