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WASHINGTON — Republican divisions paralyzed the House again on Tuesday as a small band of conservative rebels blocked a motion to merely begin debate on a military funding bill and GOP leaders abandoned a separate vote to avert a shutdown at the end of the month.
The military vote was close, 212-214, with five GOP hardliners in the narrow majority joining Democrats to sink it: Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Dan Bishop, R-N.C., Ken Buck, R-Colo., Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
“I do not” see a way to prevent it, Norman said, adding that conservatives want assurances on a “top line” spending level that Congress will stick by before they agree to pass any full-year funding bills.
Moderate Republicans facing tough races in 2024 suggested they could pay a political price for the GOP infighting and alienating voters who want to see governing in Washington.
Specifically, the conservative rabble-rousers are demanding that McCarthy follow through with the agreement he made with them in January to secure the speaker’s gavel: cut non-defense discretionary spending to levels that existed before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a Freedom Caucus member who negotiated the CR deal, said that if House Republicans fail to unify, they could be forced to swallow a bill the Democratic-led Senate passes.
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WASHINGTON — Republican divisions paralyzed the House again on Tuesday as a small band of conservative rebels blocked a motion to merely begin debate on a military funding bill and GOP leaders abandoned a separate vote to avert a shutdown at the end of the month.
The military vote was close, 212-214, with five GOP hardliners in the narrow majority joining Democrats to sink it: Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Dan Bishop, R-N.C., Ken Buck, R-Colo., Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
“I do not” see a way to prevent it, Norman said, adding that conservatives want assurances on a “top line” spending level that Congress will stick by before they agree to pass any full-year funding bills.
Moderate Republicans facing tough races in 2024 suggested they could pay a political price for the GOP infighting and alienating voters who want to see governing in Washington.
Specifically, the conservative rabble-rousers are demanding that McCarthy follow through with the agreement he made with them in January to secure the speaker’s gavel: cut non-defense discretionary spending to levels that existed before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a Freedom Caucus member who negotiated the CR deal, said that if House Republicans fail to unify, they could be forced to swallow a bill the Democratic-led Senate passes.
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