Speaker Kevin McCarthy makes a dramatic pivot Saturday, trying to push a 45-day funding bill through with Democratic help to avoid a government shut down.
Federal agencies are making final preparations as the U.S. barrels toward a government shutdown set to begin at midnight.On the brink of a federal government shutdown Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a dramatic pivot Saturday, trying to push a 45-day funding bill through the House with Democratic help - a move that could keep government open but most certainly risks his job.
McCarthy, R-Calif., will be forced to rely on Democrats for passage because the speaker's hard-right flank has said it will oppose any short-term measure. McCarthy was setting up a process for voting that will require a two-thirds supermajority, about 290 votes in the 435-member House for passage. Republicans hold a 221-212 majority, with two vacancies.
"If somebody wants to remove because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try," McCarthy said of the threat to oust him. "But I think this country is too important." "Congress has only one option to avoid a shutdown - bipartisanship," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. The federal government is heading straight into a shutdown that poses grave uncertainty for federal workers in states all across America and the people who depend on them - from troops to border control agents to office workers, scientists and others.
The White House has brushed aside McCarthy's overtures to meet with President Joe Biden after the speaker walked away from the debt deal they brokered earlier this year that set budget levels.
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