The debt deal forces a 1 percent cut to government spending on Jan. 1 if a short-term funding bill is in place. So, lawmakers say, that's the REAL deadline to pass new spending bills.
“It’s an experiment, no question about it,” Cole said of the automatic cuts baked into the debt deal, formally known as sequestration. “But it may turn out to be an experiment that revives the process and deadlines. Real deadlines, with real teeth, sometimes actually get people moving around here.”
That partisan approach means the House will spend much of the summer churning out a dozen funding measures that Democrats consider fake messaging bills, legislation that has little to no chance at passing a Senate controlled by Biden’s party. After that, lawmakers hope some true bipartisan movement toward funding the government can begin.
In a further wrinkle, senators are signaling that they may lean the opposite way from House conservatives — demanding to go above the debt deal’s spending caps, not below.of Maine, the top Republican on the committee, said that the funding totals the panel approved on Thursday “are not the final story for this fiscal year.
“But we ought to do everything in our power to avoid an omnibus,” he added, referring to legislation that bundles together all 12 spending bills into one mammoth package. Lawmakers could still clear legislation to nullify or push off the sequestration cuts — an obvious fallback strategy if leaders are still working toward a funding deal in late December, or even when the reductions are set to begin in late April.
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