House lawmakers failed to reach consensus Saturday on a stopgap bill to keep the government open beyond the Sept. 30 deadline.
Lawmakers joined in on a conference call Saturday with House leadership, hoping to find some middle ground on a continuing resolution to keep the government open. While a final measure wasn’t produced, they mostly agreed that they need to avert a partisan shutdown.
But lawmakers came away with a message from leadership and most of the GOP conference that any stopgap measure should be used as a vehicle to slash spending and secure the U.S./Mexico border.“I think that every day we get closer to the end of the fiscal year, the opportunities of leverage to force this White House, to force President Biden to cave on those issues is waning, and I think it’s a huge mistake,” Mr. Graves said.
One came from a handful of lawmakers from the moderate Republican Main Street Caucus and arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus, which included the House’s blockbuster border bill, the Secure the Border Act. Though bipartisan and with a chance to actually make it through the Senate, that version is likely a nonstarter for House leadership.
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