Congress must enact a new spending plan by Friday, but the two parties have not yet come to an agreement on topline figures, and some Republicans want to push the debate until next year, when they will control the House.
Lawmakers are locked in a partisan feud over the federal government’s fiscal year 2023 budget just days before a Friday deadline to avert a government shutdown, with Democrats angling to iron out a full-year spending plan while Republicans vie for a short-term spending measure before they take control of the House in January....
The parties still have not come to an agreement on a topline figure for the deal, and are about $26 billion apart in the approximately $1.5 trillion package, Sen. Richard Shelby Democrats plan to unveil a bill on Monday for the full fiscal year that they hope will appease members of both parties and recruit the 10 Republican Senate votes needed to get a 60-vote supermajority, overcoming the Senate’s filibuster rules.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy , meanwhile, is hoping to pass a short-term stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown and push negotiations on a new, full-year spending package until next year, when,last week, Republicans “would be stronger in every negotiation,” he said referring to the slim majority they will hold in the House come January.
Republicans argue that Democrats need to curb spending on “non-defense” priorities, such as the IRS and climate initiatives, while Democrats are pushing for more money to fund tax credits for low-income workers and families, including an expansion of the child tax credit.Sen. Mike Lee and Sen. Rick Scott , who unsuccessfully challenged Sen.
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