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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

House Republicans pass a bill to fund the government through September 30th,

putting the pressure on Senate Democrats and Chuck Schumer to follow suit or shut down the government at midnight Friday.

Meantime, the House bill tries to save the GOP from a hard vote on Donald Trump's

trade wars, as the latest is a presidential threat to put 200% tariffs on European wine.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board

member, Manet Uquay-Brua. Will Democrats shut down the government? That might seem like a novel

question after years of watching Republicans in the House struggle to get these government

funding bills over the finish line. But in the new GOP Congress 2025, the roles have been reversed.

On Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson was successful in keeping the House GOP together to pass a

continuing budget resolution through the end of the fiscal year. The vote was 217 to 213 with Republican Thomas Massey in the no column and Democrat

and Jared Golden in the yeses. And now this goes over to the Senate. Chuck Schumer, as we

tape this on Thursday afternoon, is still pitching an alternative stopgap 30-day funding bill

that Republicans are saying is a non-starter. Here he is on the

Senate floor on Wednesday. Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans

chose a partisan path drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from

congressional Democrats.

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