唐纳德·特朗普周四呼吁参议院共和党人利用掌权的最后几周时间，通过3500亿美元的国防开支——试图“立即”推动一项按党派路线提出的资金请求付诸立法行动，该请求已搁置数月未获回应。
Donald Trump called on Senate Republicans Thursday to use their final weeks in power to pass $350 billion in defense spending — moving to jump-start legislative action “IMMEDIATELY” on a party-line funding request that has gone unanswered for months.
“我们的军队必须强大、有力、受人尊敬，”特朗普在Truth Social（真实社交）平台发文称。“共和党人必须为我们的战士兑现承诺。民主党人永远不会。时机就是现在。”该帖文发布之际，共和党人在国会山面临的时间所剩无几，需在上周中期选举中获胜、即将掌握两院新多数席位的民主党人接管权力前，在关键优先事项上取得进展。两党的民主党领袖均表示，他们将寻求结束伊朗战争——可能最早于下月通过阻挠拨款来实现。
“Our Military must be strong, powerful, and respected,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “Republicans must deliver for our Warriors. The Democrats never will. The time is NOW.”The post comes as Republicans face scant time on Capitol Hill to make progress on key priorities before Democrats assume the big new majorities they won in last week’s midterms. Democratic leaders in both parties are signaling they will seek to end the Iran war — possibly by blocking funding as soon as next month.
但特朗普此前要求大幅增加五角大楼资金的呼吁在参议院未获理睬，共和党议员在如何构建按党派路线通过的支出法案问题上存在分歧。
But Trump’s previous calls to enact massive new infusions of Pentagon funding have gone unheeded in the Senate, where GOP lawmakers have split over how to structure a party-line spending bill.
众议院通过的一份包含伊朗战争资金的预算蓝图在参议院停滞近四个月，但即便该立法也仅为五角大楼提供600亿美元——仅为特朗普所要求资金的一小部分。
A House-passed budget blueprint that includes Iran war funding has stalled in the Senate for nearly four months but even that legislation provides only $60 billion for the Pentagon — a fraction of the funding Trump is asking for.
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩本周表示，他仍“持开放态度”，考虑根据预算协调程序推进按党派路线通过的资金法案，但也表示他认为众议院需要先行动。
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said this week he remained “open” to pursuing a party-line funding bill under the budget reconciliation process but also said he believed the House needed to act first.
“我们将看看是否有政治意愿这么做，”他周一对记者说。“你知道，这需要大量时间，……才能完成所有这些其他事情。”图恩与即将出任众议院少数党领袖的吉姆·乔丹众议员（共和党-俄亥俄州）周三在闭门会议上讨论了协调程序的前景，这是两人自各自赢得领导层选举以来首次面对面会晤。
“We’ll see if there’s a political appetite to do it,” he told reporters Monday. “It takes a lot of time, as you know, and … to get all this other stuff done.”Thune and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the incoming House minority leader, discussed the prospects for reconciliation during a closed-door meeting Wednesday, the first time they had met in person since winning their respective leadership elections.
参议院共和党人周二在领导层选举前举行了长达数小时的会议，讨论试图通过一项新的和解法案，与会议员会后表示，大家实际上已同意尝试寻找一条路径。
Senate Republicans discussed trying to pass a new reconciliation bill during an hourslong meeting ahead of their leadership election Tuesday and effectively agreed to try to see if they could find a path, several senators said after the meeting.
但包括党内领袖在内的部分共和党参议员持怀疑态度，认为在对法案内容存在分歧的情况下，未必凑齐票数通过另一项纯党派的支出法案。
But some GOP senators, including party leaders, have been skeptical that there are the votes to pass another party-line spending bill amid divisions over what should be included in it.
参议院预算委员会成员、参议员约翰·肯尼迪（共和党-路易斯安那州）表示，共和党最好的机会是将任何法案严格聚焦在仅一两项内容上。
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, said Republicans’ best shot would be to keep any bill narrowly focused on only a couple of items.
“我认为我们应该真正尝试争取结果，最坏也就是失败，”肯尼迪在采访中说。“公平地说，我不认为领导层同意我的看法。” 参议院预算委员会主席罗恩·约翰逊（共和党-威斯康星州）周四表示，他认为总统介入是“好事”，且该要求与他私下听到的五角大楼高层意见一致。但他拒绝透露共和党是否掌握足够票数。
“I think we ought to actually try to get a result, and the worst we can do is lose,” Kennedy said in an interview. “I don’t think, to be fair, that leadership agrees with me.”Senate Budget Chair Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Thursday that he believed it was “good” that the president was engaged and that the request matches what he’s heard privately from top Pentagon officials. But he would not say if Republicans have the votes.
索恩本周表示，共和党人必须在感恩节前做出决定，并指出通过和解法案需要漫长的流程。约翰逊说，他希望在议员们下周启程度假前，让预算蓝图登上参议院议程。
Thune said this week Republicans would have to make a decision Thanksgiving and noted the lengthy process required to enact a reconciliation bill. Johnson said he wants a budget blueprint on the Senate floor before lawmakers leave for the upcoming holiday next week.
在特朗普周四发帖之前，众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯在采访中表示，他希望看到一项“广泛的和解法案在跛脚鸭会期推进”。“我们已经启动了这一流程，众议院已通过。希望现在大选结束，参议院能重新着手，”斯卡利斯周四说。
Prior to Trump’s posting Thursday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in an interview that he wanted to see a “broad reconciliation bill move in the lame duck.”“We started that process. We passed it through the House. Hopefully, now that the elections are over, the Senate gets back to it,” Scalise said Thursday.
同样在特朗普提出要求之前，议长迈克·约翰逊周四将矛头指向参议院民主党人，指责他们“阻挠了一切”——尽管正是共和党内部的分歧，导致参议院搁置了众议院通过的预算蓝图，而这正是党派和解程序的关键前提。
Also speaking before Trump leveled his demand, Speaker Mike Johnson pointed fingers at Senate Democrats Thursday for having “obstructed everything” — though it is GOP divisions that have left the chamber sitting on the House-passed budget blueprint, a key prerequisite for the party-line reconciliation process.
“这是一个两院制立法机构，所以我们需要参议院开展工作，”约翰逊说。
“This is a two-chamber legislative body, so we need the Senate to do their work,” Johnson said.