A top member of the House Democratic leadership accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy of reneging on the debt limit agreement struck with President Biden last month.
Democrats to keep the government open, pass a short-term funding measure, or risk a shutdown. Neither option is appealing to the California Republican.
Shutdowns have burned the GOP in the past with voters, while leading to few victories for reining in federal spending. A short-term government funding measure is only slightly better.includes a provision implementing a 1% spending cut if Congress fails to pass an annual budget by Jan. 1. 2025. The spending cut would impact both defense and domestic programs alike.
“This was an incentive to get both sides to work together on a bipartisan spending deal,” said a senior GOP aide. “Now it could very likely be the best option of a series of bad options that still leaves us on the hook for cutting popular programs.”Republicans and Democrats could put Mr. McCarthy’s speakership in jeopardy.’s leadership bid earlier this year. In exchange for allowing Mr. McCarthy’s ascension, the group pushed through a rules package that decentralized the power of congressional leadership.
The crux of the overhaul rests on a provision letting any lawmaker force a vote on retaining the speaker. Although hardliners have not expressly committed to ousting Mr.“We want him to choose us as his coalition partner, not the Democrats,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican allied with the Freedom Caucus. “We can’t live in a world in which the Democrats are the coalition partner on the substantive and we’re the coalition partner on the frivolous.
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