PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on September 30, 2023, 09:25:19 AM
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/house-gop-eyes-deal-00119259
Speaker Kevin McCarthy(RINO-CA) is pushing the House toward a last-minute escape hatch from a government shutdown before Sunday's deadline— one that will require support from Democrats and potentially endanger his gavel.
After a private House Republican meeting on Saturday morning to try to figure out spending strategy, GOP leaders announced they would push ahead with a 45-day stopgap spending bill to avert a shutdown and allow them more time to pass their own full-year spending bills.
Executing that plan would require help from a significant swath of Democrats — the exact scenario under which conservatives have threatened to try to end McCarthy's speakership.
“If I have to risk my job for standing up for the American public, I will do that," McCarthy said. He had previously likened a vote on such a clean funding patch, without border policy changes or any other conservative provisions, to surrender.
The House will vote on the short-term funding patch under rules that require two-thirds support for passage. Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) has conveyed to fellow leaders that the GOP lacks the votes on its own side of the aisle to pass any short-term stopgap bill without looking to Democrats, but the bill is likely to get the support it needs to pass from the opposing party.
McCarthy's latest 45-day idea had presented Democrats with a tough choice: whether to support government funding without Ukraine aid. In the end, Democratic leaders are expected not to whip the vote.
The speaker's shift in strategy comes less than 24 hours before a shutdown that's set to begin at midnight Sunday. And it comes with significant political risk for the Californian, who's facing threats to try to strip McCarthy's gavel.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has led that charge against the speaker, has vowed to force a vote on removing McCarthy if a “clean” short-term funding measure came to the floor. He indicated on Saturday that he would need to consult with his allies about the status of a forced ouster vote, if the clean funding patch were to pass.
McCarthy argued during a private conference meeting on Friday night that putting a short-term funding bill on the table would “dare” Democrats to support something that lacked Ukraine aid.
“I think if we had a clean one without Ukraine, we would probably be able to move it through,” McCarthy told reporters afterward.
Part of GOP leadership’s effort to woo the holdouts included a calendar unveiled during the conference meeting that outlined plans to move nearly all of the rest of House Republicans' full-year spending bills — none of which have a chance at passing the Senate in their current form.
House Republicans have passed four individual spending bills so far, leaving eight to go.
But two of the Republicans who have talked the loudest about potentially ousting McCarthy — Gaetz and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) — were two of the first people to leave that Friday night meeting.
House GOP leadership is also racing with the Senate to see which chamber can clear a stopgap funding bill first. Senators are expected to vote on Saturday afternoon to advance a bill that would fund the government through Nov. 17 and give additional aid to Ukraine.
“If we can operationally get another stopgap out of the House ... before [senators] act, that’s our best option,” McHenry said Friday evening after the House GOP meeting.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12578633/house-voting-avert-government-shutdown-45-days.html
House representatives are voting to avert a government shutdown less than 12 hours before a deadline.
Saturday's stopgap measure tabled by Republicans to keep the government funded effectively kicks the can down the road by delaying a shutdown for at least 45 days.
A vote on the proposal is ongoing, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, leading Saturday's plans to avert a shutdown.
McCarthy's bill needs two thirds of House members to pass it, meaning Republicans will require help from Democrat colleagues to get it passed.
The proposal will be voted on by the Democrat-majority Senate later today.
If it fails to achieve a majority of votes, the government will shut down at midnight tonight.
The House Speaker's change of heart means he now risks being booted from his job by other Republicans.
As fears mount over the shutdown, President Biden readied to convene his cabinet next week to discuss how the government will function.
If the government does shut down, two million members of the military and one and half million federal civilian employees will go without pay until lawmakers can strike a deal.
Over half the civilian employees will be furloughed, and the rest will have to show up for work without payment.
Much of the dispute has been focused on Biden's aggressive funding of the conflict in Ukraine, with firebrand Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene slamming the bill she voted no on as 'America last.'
On Friday, McCarthy failed to strike a deal with hardline GOP officials, with the party-line plan that was shut down intending to cut spending by $1.471 trillion while bolstering border security.
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What the hell is wrong with him?
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What the hell is wrong with him?
His constituency is inside the beltway, what we call the UniParty. He's a direct product of his mentor Paul Ryan (RINO-WI).
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This just turns my stomach.
https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1708193111774503149
We are so fucked.
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This just turns my stomach.
https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1708193111774503149
We are so fucked.
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