(The Center Square) – House lawmakers are expected to return to Capitol Hill Saturday with no spending measure yet agreed upon just hours before a partial government shutdown.
Holdout House Republicans killed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s attempt Friday to pass a short-term spending measure to keep the government from a partial shut down at midnight Saturday. McCarthy proposed a 30-day extension that cut spending and bolstered conservative border policies, but 21 Republicans voted against it, leading it to fail 198-232.
House lawmakers are expected to return Saturday for more votes, but passing a spending measure to keep the government open is becoming increasingly unlikely.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., blasted Republicans and called on McCarthy to abandon trying to work with holdout Republicans and instead strike a deal with Democrats to keep the government open.
“What is the alternative?” he told reporters Friday. “They failed. There is no way out of their Republican civil war.”
Meanwhile, McCarthy went after the media and the Senate, pointing out House Republicans have passed several appropriations bills this week.
“I don’t have a journalism degree—but why does the media expect the Republican House to just follow the Democrat Senate’s lead on government funding?” McCarthy wrote on social media Friday afternoon. “House has passed 74% of funding through regular order. No omnibus. Senate has done NOTHING, including a stopgap bill.”
But bargaining with Democrats when McCarthy has a Republican majority could lead House Republicans to remove McCarthy from his position. McCarthy was only voted in as Speaker after a marathon of votes, and since then several Republicans have repeatedly reminded McCarthy they can move to have him removed.
As The Center Square previously reported, the Pentagon has warned that a shutdown without a Defense appropriations bill passed would mean many troops would not receive pay. In the past, Congress has either passed that appropriations bill or passed a specific bill to make sure troops get their pay.
According to Congressional Research Service data, more than 2 million American civilians are employed by the federal government in all 50 states and U.S. territories. If the government shuts down, then essential employees would continue working without pay while others would be furloughed, meaning they would be suspended until funding could be passed but then receive back pay. All federal contractors do not necessarily have the same certainty about back pay.
on a different topic :
If you are White, Middle eastern, Asias, Hispanic, anybody who is not black – you ARE justified to feel discriminated by Blacks America because you are – and you have every reason not to like black America – as Jussie Smollett case has shown for all of us to see its A VERY RACIST BLACK AMERICA pushing a very racist black supremacism and socialism that is influencing the behavior of the black culture in general and putting on display for all of us to see a culture that has been taught for the past 50 years in their homes and neighborhoods, hate and racism towards the white population – I have experienced racism and abuse from blacks Americans and im not the only one experiencing this abuse – people stop taking their abuse and its time to start calling it out and start calling out the racisms’ of a black community hell bent at hate against the white, Asian and Hispanic while excusing rampant crime by mostly blacks
“The House of Representatives failed to pass a stopgap funding bill which could have averted a government shutdown, with 21 Republican members of Congress voting against the bill.”
I condone and support these 21 Republicans that would not bow down to the Democrat’s demands or the swamp RINOs.
We have seen this many times before. The wimpy Republicans and the swamp Democrat RINOs bow down to the treasonous, destructive, lying, unethical, immoral, woke, socialist Democrats.
This treasonous, destructive, lying, unethical, immoral, woke, socialist Democrat Party and their RINOs have become our country’s most Destructive and deadliest ENEMY! They do not serve We the People, they serve themselves!!!
Swamppies gonna swamp.