The fallout among the House GOP conference from President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt limit agreement that shuttered the House floor last week could have a second act as the government nears another shutdown deadline.
Last week, a group of House conservatives blocked legislation from advancing on the floor, in part, due to their opposition to the Biden-McCarthy deal, arguing that it didn’t go far enough to reduce federal spending.
As a concession to the House Republican conference’s most conservative wing, appropriators are expected to propose federal spending levels lower than the threshold in the Biden-McCarthy deal, which Democrats are already speaking out against.
“This moves us in the direction of, you could say a CR [continuing resolution], but in October, we’re looking toward a shutdown,” Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, recently said.California Rep. Pete Aguilar, chairman of the House Democratic Conference and […]
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