The Senate would not vote on reopening the government at the end of this week, as expected initially, as some Republican senators will participate in a high-dollar funding retreat for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) in the C island of Georgia.
The time for the decline meeting of the money-ravaging committee is strange for the senators as speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Has urged his GOP colleagues not to keep funding during shutdowns as it can open them for political attacks.
The luxurious C island is a major draw for the Republican’s weekend Republican at the resort as it gives them time to face important GOP policy makers.
The invitation to the NRSC fall meeting lists the “group rate” for the rooms at the resort, ranging from $ 495 for a garden wing room to the beach club club one bedroom suit to $ 599 in a night.
And the resort itself is a maize for golf lovers, with three impeccable curated golf courses, a spa and fitness center and a large, beautiful white sand beach.
Republican senators are usually expected to participate in the weekend that is an annual NRSC phenomenon, but does not need to do so.
This year, however, some Republican senators are nervous about the political optics of walking in a posh resort, while the government is closed, and some GOP legalists are thinking about changing their plans to fully abandon it, according to sources familiar with the hands of the back and forth.
A person familiar with the sensitive issue said that NRSC President Tim Scott (RS.C.) is advocating for shown to retreat to GOP colleagues, which have been planned for months for months.
This phenomenon was already contracted and its cost cannot be refunded.
The Senate majority leader John Thyun (Rs. D.), who reopen the government in a standoff with the Democratic leaders, is not thrilled with the possibility of Republican senators, who meet with donors in a high -end resort, while thousands of federal workers have been inflated and can miss their next passkek according to the source.
Johnson shared the worry of the the world and told his Republican colleagues earlier this week Not to keep funding during shutdownHe does not want Democrats to use such events as political gunpowder, realizing that Republicans are now high base in deadlock.
Sen John Curtis (R-Yuta) said that he does not plan to attend the NRSC fall meeting as he would travel to Utah later this week.
“I don’t know that there is a correct answer for me. I will not go there,” he said, referring to the C island event. “Utah has some situations, one was on a shooting [Mormon] The church in Michigan, the second was the death of the President of the Church. Because of that I am going home to attend his funeral. ,
Curtis warned that the Republican needs to be “sensitive” how their actions are considered during a shutdown.
He said, “I asked the clerk to stop his salary, I think it is very important that we are sensitive to things,” he said, revealing the Congress’ decision to end the salary of the Congress during Shutdown.
The Senate is not expected to hold any votes over the weekend after three votes on the house-passed government funding bill this week.
A NRSC spokesman said that democratic obstacle is a major issue for the government to fund the government.
Joana Rodriguez said, “While Shumor shut down the government to provide illegal free healthcare, the Republican is united. The record presence of the NRSC Retreat suggests that Republicans are concentrated on a mission: Protecting and growing the majority of President Trump’s Senate’s Senate,” Joanna Rodigaz said.
People planning to participate in the weekend program received an email from NRSC on Thursday, destroying Democrats for shutdown. Email attacked the NRSC advertisement, which attacks Sen John Ossoff (D-GA) and voted with Shumor and explained: “These incidents are already reserved and contracted-even beyond our current tenure in NRSC, beyond our current tenure-and both our costs and present rooms are non-worthy.”
Republican sources also suggest that Senate Democrats have been scheduled to raise a money raising retreat in the end of next week, when the government can still be closed.
