Rep. Ralph Norman Backs Trump’s Shutdown Plan, Calls for Congressional Term Limits

As President Donald Trump pushes for a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), a House Freedom Caucus member advocating for congressional term limits, said Thursday that while he typically opposes such measures, he supports this one.

Norman stated that “what’s different now” is the DOGE initiative to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse. He pointed out that, under Trump’s direction, Elon Musk has been identifying “excess spending” and emphasized that sorting the good from the bad within the federal government will “take time.”

He said, “We have never seen that before.”

Trump is promoting the idea of a continuing resolution.

The president stated in a post that “Funding for the Government will run out the week after next, and Democrats have threatened to shut the Government down – but I am working on a continuing resolution to fund the Government through September so we can work on our Agenda.”

The Conservatives will LOVE this Bill because it allows us to reduce Taxes and spending in the Reconciliation process while also effectively freezing spending this year. This bill will allow us to make America great again. This Bill must be passed!

Norman believes that the 12 appropriation bills of the budget for ’26 will be approved on time in the next six months.

This congressman has been in the House of Representatives since mid-2017. He is proposing a Constitutional Amendment that would limit the term for federal legislators, preventing them from staying in D.C.’s power bubble decade after decade as certain politicians currently do.

Dozens of House Republicans, and even a few Democrats, are backing the proposal, which Norman re-introduced this year. It previously fell short of clearing the House Judiciary Committee in 2023, with several Republicans voting against advancing it.

It would restrict politicians to a maximum of three House and two Senate terms, but it would exclude terms that were held before the ratification.

Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and over a dozen GOP senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to the Senate.

Norman said that being a legislator in Washington D.C. was not “rocket-science” and suggested that those with experience of business, including having made or lost money, were well equipped to take on the job.