'I'm going to do everything I can to make it happen,' Senator Joe Manchin told Newsweek. 'The border has to be secure.'
Additionally, the most conservative House Republicans have refused to allow funding for the Ukraine war to be part of the deal, something a bipartisan majority of Senators had agreed upon. With the two chambers far apart, the question looming over Capitol Hill is whether an agreement can be reached to fund the government and address the border.of West Virginia, a key swing vote, told."The border has to be secure. There's no conversation unless we all agree to secure the border.
Border security has become the focus of a potential deal to avert a government shutdown. In this photo, migrants warm themselves near a fire at dawn after spending the night outside next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 22, 2022 in El Paso, Texas.Other key Democratic moderates and dealmakers offered cautious optimism that the Senate could put together a CR with border funding as a response to whatever version of such a bill may make its way through the House.
"On the Homeland Security Committee, we have a number of border protection bills that could possibly correlate," Democratic Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, who chairs that committee, told
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Schumer says Senate stopgap will pass House while Senate GOP mull border amendments to billSenate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s motto for avoiding a partial government shutdown is “bipartisanship,” and he believed that the Senate’s stopgap bill could pass through a divided House.
Read more »
US House Speaker McCarty: No House support for Senate funding billRepublican US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday that he does not see support for the Senate funding bill. McCarthy add
Read more »
House Speaker McCarthy criticizes Senate measure, says House will get bill done to avoid shutdownHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., spoke Thursday to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Read more »
Oil lobbying group pans House GOP hardliners rejecting the Senate’s plan to avert a shutdownOil and natural gas lobbying group Western Energy Alliance on Wednesday whacked the small group of conservative House Republicans opposing a bipartisan Senate deal to avoid a looming government shutdown.
Read more »
Kevin McCarthy rejects Senate spending bill while scrambling for House plan to avert shutdownCongress is at a crossroads days before a disruptive federal shutdown. It would halt paychecks for millions of federal workers, including 2 million active-duty military troops and reservists, and close many federal offices.
Read more »