With time running short to avoid a government shutdown at the end of next week89k, President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are pitching Republicans on a stopgap bill that would keep federal dollars flowing at current levels through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

The idea is something of a surrender by Republicans, as it would maintain spending at levels enacted under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and does not account for the cuts being made by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency. But the president and speaker are embracing it as a way to avoid a politically damaging shutdown fight among Republicans while still affording Mr. Trump wide latitude to slash spending on his own in defiance of Congress.

“I am working with the GREAT House Republicans on a Continuing Resolution to fund the Government until September to give us some needed time to work on our Agenda,” Mr. Trump wrote Wednesday on social media. “Conservatives will love this Bill, because it sets us up to cut Taxes and Spending in Reconciliation, all while effectively FREEZING Spending this year.”

It is unclear whether the plan could pass by midnight on March 14 and avert a shutdown. Mr. Trump’s appeal was aimed at soothing far-right House members who traditionally have opposed government spending bills, particularly stopgap measures that lump together money for every federal program without reducing funding for any of them.

He hosted hard-liners at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and encouraged them to support the extension, and some skeptics emerged saying they were considering doing so. They noted that Mr. Trump had already shown a willingness to ignore spending legislation and pursue deep cuts on his own.

But members of both parties on the appropriations committees in the House and Senate are deeply opposed, arguing that it would starve some departments of needed funding and cede too much power over spending to the executive branch.

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The police believe the person whom the gunmen were targeting was among those killed,9x999 cassino Scott Thurmond, the city’s police chief, said at a news conference on Sunday morning. He said the shooters had approached the scene in a vehicle, got out, opened fire and then fled in the vehicle. The police said they believed the shooters had used machine gun conversion devices, which alter semiautomatic weapons so that a single pull of the trigger can empty a gun’s entire magazine.

But many of their smiles shrank when they were asked about the embattled Republican nominee for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has been under fire since CNN reported this week on the lewd comments he made on a pornography website several years ago. According to CNN, Mr. Robinson wrote on the site that he was a “black NAZI,” that he enjoyed watching transgender pornography and that slavery was not bad. He also recounted on the site how he went “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a teenager.

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