The House of Representatives will vote this week to beef up border security and keep the government open, sparking a showdown with an obstinate Senate desiring the status quo at the southern border.
The House of Representatives will vote this week to beef up border security and keep the government open, sparking a shutdown showdown with an obstinate Senate desiring the status quo at the southern border.a procedural logjam to begin bringing individual appropriations bills to the floor. The border security-infused continuing resolution would keep the government operating, likely for 45 days, while Congress continues considering longer-term bills.
House Republicans are criticizing the Senate for the incongruity, with McCarthy saying if Democrats want to “focus on Ukraine and not focus on the southern border, I think their priorities are backwards.” There are signs the strategy might have legs. Sen. Thom Tillis , a reliable ally of McConnell, argued the Senate CR “contains several priorities requested by Democrats but zero priorities requested by Republicans: border security funding being first and foremost to address the crisis at our Southern border that President Biden created.”
McCarthy must still twist arms within his conference to pass his CR. Reframing it as a border security bill is a shrewd move that might put pressure on some Republicans otherwise unwilling to vote for a CR.
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