The tail waggiung the dog thing by a small group of House wingnuts is NOT making US Senate Republicans Happp….
Ah?
It isn’t making House Speaker McCarthy and other House Republicans Happy either……
Democrats are shaking their heads as the Republican ‘Civil War’ breaks ground again and are annoyed……..
In the end?
The House Speaker will have to continue to get Democratic help to get stuff done….
Senate Republicans are worried the House GOP’s decision to write government funding bills at levels below those laid out in the recently-passed bipartisan debt ceiling bill will create a tough road for lawmakers to avert a government shutdown.
House Republican leaders this week announced a plan to write 2024 spending bills at fiscal year 2022 levels, an attempt to assuage House Freedom Caucus members who effectively shut down all work in the chamber last week over their dissatisfaction with the debt ceiling deal struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden.
The news outraged Democrats and landed like a thud with GOP appropriators in the Senate, leaving them to scramble to get a funding bill through Congress before the end of September.
“It’s going to be a problem,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), the No. 5 Senate Republican and an Appropriations Committee member, told The Hill. “I don’t want to co-opt what Sen. Collins might say, but … we struck an agreement that will write to those numbers.”
“We’ll go into a collaborative conference, try to hash it out,” Capito continued. “But I don’t think it’s going to be easy.”
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“It doesn’t strike me as serious. … I don’t think it can pass the House and even if it does it definitely can’t pass the Senate,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), a Senate appropriator. “We’re going to have to do a bipartisan appropriations bill and they can start out with whatever partisan position they want, but this ain’t it.”
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“After narrowly avoiding a federal default, the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-led Senate are now on a collision course over spending that could result in a government shutdown this year and automatic spending cuts in early 2025 with severe consequences for the Pentagon and an array of domestic programs,” the New York Times reports.
“Far-right Republicans whose votes will be needed to keep the government funded are demanding cuts that go far deeper than what President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to in the bipartisan compromise they reached last month to suspend the debt ceiling, but such reductions are all but certain to be nonstarters in the Senate.”