On Friday, a massive hard-right revolt in the House caused Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest plan to collapse.
The House measure would fund government at current 2023 levels, until Nov. 17, setting up another potential crisis if they fail to more fully fund government by then. The package was approved by the House 335-91, with most Republicans and almost all Democrats supporting.
For the House package to be approved, McCarthy, R-Calif., was forced to rely on Democrats because the speaker’s hard-right flank has said it will oppose any short-term funding measure, denying him the votes needed from his slim majority. It’s a move that risks his job amid calls for his ouster. The White House was tracking the developments on Capitol Hill and aides were briefing the president, who was spending the weekend in Washington.
“Our options are slipping away every minute,” said one senior Republican, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida. that poses grave uncertainty for federal workers in states all across America and the people who depend on them — from troops to border control agents to office workers, scientists and others.
The White House has brushed aside McCarthy’s overtures to meet with Biden after the speaker walked away from the Catering to his hard-right flank, McCarthy had made multiple concessions including returning to the spending limits the conservatives demanded back in January as part of the deal-making to help him But it was not enough as the right flank insisted the House follow regular rules, and debate and approve each of the 12 separate spending bills needed to fund the government agencies,...
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