House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday doubled down on demands that Democrats accept border security as part of a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend.
He said President Biden should come to the negotiating table to talk about Republicans’ plans to shut down the border and keep the government open, not vice versa.
Congress has until midnight Saturday to pass a stopgap spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown. The Democrat-run Senate has leapfrogged the House in getting a bill on the floor, but Mr. McCarthy has signaled that he won’t take up that bill in the House.The House and Senate stopgap bills are wildly different and both are dead on arrival in the opposing chambers. The standoff all but cements a partial government shutdown at the stroke of midnight on Saturday.
However, House Republicans have yet to land on a unified vision for a stopgap bill. So far, lawmakers have produced three different options and Mr. McCarthy is struggling to wrangle at least seven holdout votes from arch-conservatives who say will never support a short-term spending bill. The Senate’s temporary spending bill, which garnered overwhelming bipartisan support in a test vote, is starkly different from the House’s bills.
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