{"id":1948731,"date":"2023-06-15T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-fears-grow-as-democrats-and-gop-senators-frustrated-by-freedom-caucus\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:21","slug":"government-shutdown-fears-grow-as-democrats-and-gop-senators-frustrated-by-freedom-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-fears-grow-as-democrats-and-gop-senators-frustrated-by-freedom-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and GOP senators increasingly frustrated by Freedom Caucus, heightening government shutdown concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgovernment-shutdown-fears-grow-as-democrats-and-gop-senators-frustrated-by-freedom-caucus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948731&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Lawmakers Express Concern Over Possible Government Shutdown<\/h2>\n<p>Democratic and Republican lawmakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-reacts-to-nigeria-ban-mocked-for-calling-open-internet-essential-human-right-after-censoring-trump\/\" title=\"Twitter Reacts To Nigeria Ban, Mocked For Calling Open Internet \u2018Essential Human Right\u2019 After Censoring Trump\">expressing deep concern<\/a> over the possibility of a government shutdown. This comes as members of the House Freedom Caucus create barriers due to their dissatisfaction with the debt ceiling deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-fears-grow-as-democrats-and-gop-senators-frustrated-by-freedom-caucus\/\" title=\"Democrats and GOP senators increasingly frustrated by Freedom Caucus, heightening government shutdown concerns.\">conservative members blocked significant legislation<\/a> from passing in a nearly weeklong shutdown that ended Wednesday. The end of the stalemate came after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to meet their demand to write multiple 2024 spending bills at fiscal 2022 levels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Worries Over Conflicting Demands<\/h3>\n<p>Multiple members of the Appropriations Committee, responsible for crafting spending bills, have expressed concerns over the challenges this situation presents. The demands from the House Freedom Caucus conflict with those of the federal government agreement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a problem,\u201d Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), an Appropriations Committee member, said in an interview with the Hill. \u201cWe\u2019ll go into a collaborative conference, try to hash it out,\u201d Capito added. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawmakers are advocating against deviating from the debt plan made between President Joe Biden and McCarthy, which was signed on June 3 to avert a debt default.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd at the end of the day, any spending agreement that is arrived at by the end of the year has to be consistent with the resolution of the default process \u2014 otherwise, what was it all for?\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said, per Roll Call.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Senate must reach a spending deal by the end of September to avoid a government shutdown. However, the House and Senate face the challenge of balancing the demands of the Freedom Caucus for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-ways-our-massive-debt-threatens-the-economy\/\" title=\"Five Ways Our Massive Debt Threatens the Economy\">deep spending cuts<\/a> with GOP senators who are hesitant to make defense cuts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not concerned that we lack the capacity to do it,\u201d Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), an Appropriations Committee member, told the Hill. \u201cBut we have to have the will to get on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The GOP-led committee has demanded federal budget cuts in the debt ceiling plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic and Republican lawmakers worry about a government shutdown as the House Freedom Caucus obstructs due to their discontent with the debt ceiling agreement. Conservative members halted crucial legislation during a weeklong shutdown that concluded on Wednesday. The stalemate ended when House Speaker Kevin took action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1948732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4870,5241,3685,4439,14457,6203,5045,28799,9382,3709,5123],"class_list":["post-1948731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-caucus","tag-concerns","tag-democrats","tag-freedom","tag-frustrated","tag-gop","tag-government","tag-heightening","tag-increasingly","tag-senators","tag-shutdown"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}