The government funding fight continues under the threat of a looming shutdown as both chambers left town for August recess.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters outside his office about calls for an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, July 25, 2023.
The biggest challenge for Speaker Kevin McCarthy in September is uniting his fractured conference on spending. The House Freedom Caucus and other right-wing members continue to push for deeper spending cuts far below the levels the speaker agreed to with President Joe Biden on theRep. Bob Good of Virginia, a member of the Freedom Caucus, said the group is "committed to using every tool at our disposal" to go back to pre-COVID level government spending with the appropriation bills.
"We should not fear a government shutdown. Most of what we do up here is bad anyway. Most of what we do here hurts the American people," he said.The appropriations process "has been hijacked by the most extreme wing of the Republican Party," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said at his press conference Thursday.
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark said Thursday that Republicans only passed one appropriations bill because the "extremists are holding your conference hostage." "Let's not sell ourselves short. Let's put the pressure that needs to be there on the Congress, the House and the Senate to move as many bills through the process as possible, but ultimately to actually into conference committees again," Scalise said.
Even if the Senate can successfully act on its appropriations bills, these bills are vastly different from those being passed by the House, with the Senate bills drafted in alignment with the debt limit deal struck by McCarthy and Biden early this summer.
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