House Freedom Caucus members criticized Republican leadership for trying to pass a pair of federal appropriations bills this week, saying they want to see all the spending bills first — and added that they’re not afraid to force a government shutdown.
would uphold his end of the debt-ceiling deal reached with President Biden by curbing spending.McCarthy
“We want to see all 12 of the appropriation bills,” Mr. Rosendale told reporters. “We want leadership to uphold their end of the deal, and that way 218 Members of Congress that voted to curb spending, to rein in spending, can actually get the job done.” Given the Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House — they can only afford to lose five votes — even a partial rebellion among the roughly 40-member Freedom Caucus could doom the appropriations bills.to rely on Democratic votes to fund the government at a who-knows-what price.
“Our speaker has an opportunity to be a transformational historical speaker that stared down the Democrats, that stared down the free spenders, that stared down the president and said ‘no, we’re gonna do what the American people elected us to do,’” Mr. Good told reporters.
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