Two House GOP lawmakers spoke to Fox News Digital about the fight in Congress to pass federal funding legislation after the House convened on Thursday.
remain supportive of the House speaker in the fight over approving the government's budget and avoiding a shutdown.lawmakers, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, spoke to Fox News Digital about the ongoing negotiations to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government.
The House convened on Thursday after a defense spending bill failed after several GOP holdouts — including Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida — shot down the measure that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was pushing to pass.Friday, it was reported that McCarthy would remove funding for training Ukrainian armed forces from the defense spending bill, but on Saturday he appeared to reverse course and said it would remain in the bill.
The lawmaker also pointed out that"five hard-line Republicans" have so much power to derail bills, because in the narrowly divided House, Democrats who vote as a block make it difficult to pass anything. "But the fact is 100 percent of the Democrats are voting with two to two and a half percent of the Republicans to create the chaos," the lawmaker said. He told Fox News Digital that Republicans had expected"tough negotiations" but hadn't expected that the push"would be as difficult as it has been."
"This is a matter within the Republican conference in the House, of us deciding which direction we want to go," the lawmaker said."And there are two distinct directions, because the country is so polarized, because the country has so many problems." FerroMex train from Mexico heading toward southern border, filled with migrants despite a warning not to go to U.S.
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