Republican lawmakers are urging President Trump to back a clean, short-term funding resolution and refrain from seeking to attach an array of controversial MAGA priorities that might provoke a government shutdown.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing themselves for whatever special provisions Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought may demand from congressional negotiators in both parties.

They’re sending a clear message to Trump and the White House that keeping the short-term funding bill as simple and noncontroversial as possible will maximize the chances of avoiding a shutdown that could boomerang on the GOP ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Monday it would make sense for the White House to keep its re

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