House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he is not ready to abandon the short-term government funding deal negotiated by members of the House Freedom Caucus and Main Street Caucus, despite warnings from multiple conservative members that they will oppose the deal.
“Have they read it? One thing I always know, sometimes they haven’t read all the way through it,” McCarthy told CNN on Monday. “Let’s let them understand what it is and see where they are.
While the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs would be maintained at funding levels, other agencies would face a roughly 8% cut. The bill does not include the White House request for $40 billion in supplemental funding for natural disasters and the war in Ukraine, which Senate leaders in both parties want attached to any temporary funding bill.
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