After having two rule votes fail, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) scored a victory Tuesday when the House passed a rule for four appropriations bills, allowing them to advance to debate on the bills, but the threat of a government shutdown still looms.
While the House can now proceed on the defense, homeland, state and foreign operations, and agriculture appropriations bills, passing them will be a struggle as multiple Republican members have raised their objections to various provisions.“I want to do my job, and I think we should have been doing it two months ago,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
But passing a stopgap funding measure, even one filled with Republican priorities such as border security provisions, will be a tough task due to significant resistance within the Republican Conference. Those members alone are enough to tank any Republican-led continuing resolution if it garners no Democratic support.
But the holdouts aren’t budging, and McCarthy will need them to pass any kind of conservative continuing resolution off the floor. Even if House Republicans are able to pass their own continuing resolution, it won’t help avoid a government shutdown as it has no chance of passing the Democrat-controlled Senate or being signed into law by Biden.
But the Senate released its version of a bipartisan continuing resolution and moved on the first procedural step to consider a continuing resolution, though it will likely be dead on arrival when it comes to the House.
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