Drawn-out talks to avoid a catastrophic default are causing a temporary pileup on lawmakers' other priorities, including spending bills, a trillion-dollar farm package and mammoth defense policy legislation.
That more fluid timeline prompts a different kind of panic for GOP leaders, who are staring down enormous deadlines this fall on spending, Pentagon policy and the farm bill.has vowed to pass all 12 bills on the floor — a departure from recent years when congressional leaders would compile a massive spending package mostly behind closed doors — which will be a particularly difficult feat with a four-vote margin.
“We didn’t want to distract from the debt ceiling negotiation. … We don’t need to be the center of attention and, again, we need final numbers,” said Rep.And it’s not just appropriators who have started to sweat. The House Armed Services Committee had to delay considering its mammoth annual policy bill for the Pentagon, though with a deadline in December it has a little more time.
The delay on the massive defense package also slowed down talks on a high-profile effort to repeal authorizations for the Iraq War, which has merged with discussions on the annual package. “I’m just not all that interested in the press conferences … on all those other issues until we deal with these true existential threats that we’re dealing with,” he added.
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