Rep. Ralph Norman backs Trump's plan to avoid government shutdown, pushes for Congressional term limits

Norman said "what's different now" is the DOGE effort to find waste, fraud and abuse - the congressman, who noted that Elon Musk, under Trump's direction, has been discovering "excess spending," indicated that it will "take time" to sort the good from the bad in the federal government.

"We've never had that before," he noted. 

Trump has been talking up the idea of a continuing resolution.

"Government funding runs out next week, and Democrats are threatening to shut down the Government - But 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," the president declared in a Truth Social post. 

"Conservatives will love this Bill, because it sets us up to cut Taxes and Spending in Reconciliation, all while effectively FREEZING Spending this year, and allowing us to continue our work to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. VERY IMPORTANT - Let's get this Bill done!"

Norman said that he thinks during the next six months the "12 appropriation bills for the '26 budget will be passed on time."

The proposal would limit politicians to three House terms and two Senate terms, though it stipulates that terms held prior to the ratification of the amendment would not be counted.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and more than a dozen other GOP senators are pushing the proposed Constitutional amendment in the Senate. 

Norman, who indicated that working as a lawmaker in D.C. is not "rocket science," suggested that people with business experience, who have made and lost money, are equipped for the role.

Many "people have never done that," he said. "They lived on the public, ah, dole for a long period of time," he said, calling former President Joe Biden a "prime example."

The public does not think politicians should simply "live on the federal government," Norman said. "The founders did not, the Constitution did not intend that."