{"id":1983237,"date":"2023-07-26T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-overcomes-first-hurdle-for-military-spending-bill-despite-threats-from-hard-line-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:54:11","slug":"house-overcomes-first-hurdle-for-military-spending-bill-despite-threats-from-hard-line-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-overcomes-first-hurdle-for-military-spending-bill-despite-threats-from-hard-line-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes military spending bill despite conservative threats."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fhouse-overcomes-first-hurdle-for-military-spending-bill-despite-threats-from-hard-line-conservatives%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=1983237&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>The House \u200dAdvances Military Construction Appropriations Bill\u200c Despite Conservative Threats<\/h2>\n<p>The House managed to advance the rule on its \u2064annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-terminates-military-border-wall-construction-cancels-contracts\/\" title=\"Biden Terminates Military Border Wall Construction, Cancels Contracts\">military construction<\/a> appropriations\u2063 bill on\u200b Wednesday despite initial\u2064 threats from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-fights-to-shore-up-republican-support-ahead-of-speakership-vote\/\" title=\"McCarthy Fights to Shore Up Republican Support Ahead of Speakership Vote\">hard-line conservatives<\/a> to tank the legislation unless it met their \u2062list of demands.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies\u2063 Appropriations\u200d Act<\/strong> narrowly \u200bpassed the House with \u2062a 217-206 \u200dvote, \u200badvancing largely \u200balong party lines to \u2063be considered on the floor for a full vote \u2062later\u200c in the evening. Despite traditionally receiving bipartisan support, the legislation advanced with no Democratic \u2063support due\u2062 to a slew of controversial \u2064amendments proposed by GOP members.\u200d Only two Republicans \u2064voted against the measure: \u200cReps. Victoria Spartz \u200c(R-IN) and John Rose (R-TN).<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges and Demands<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-overcomes-first-hurdle-for-military-spending-bill-despite-threats-from-hard-line-conservatives\/\" title=\"House passes military spending bill despite conservative threats.\">military appropriations bill typically passes<\/a> without much\u2062 drama or fervor, making it one of \u2063the easiest spending \u200bbills to pass out of Congress each year. However, \u2063that\u2064 process was nearly uprooted earlier \u200bthis\u2063 week after members of the \u200cHouse Freedom Caucus threatened to withhold \u200dtheir support \u200cfor the must-pass legislation unless GOP leadership made some\u2062 crucial changes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-overcomes-first-hurdle-for-military-spending-bill-despite-threats-from-hardline-conservatives\/\" title=\"House passes military spending bill despite conservative threats.\">top demands included<\/a> a push to slash spending to fiscal 2022 levels, which would amount to roughly \u2063$115 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe want the \u201822 levels, and we want no rescissions,\u201d Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), told reporters on \u2064Tuesday. \u201cNo smoke \u2062and mirrors for\u2064 the American people.\u2064 We want a budget that trims the fat, \u2063goes to programs that will defend and protect this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In\u2064 response to those demands, GOP leaders vowed a \u201crobust amendment process\u201d in order to get the legislation through the House before \u2063lawmakers \u2064adjourn for recess at the end of\u200b the week. The House Rules Committee approved 40 \u2062amendments to be \u2062considered as part\u200c of\u200b that deal, which lawmakers will debate later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Several of those amendments, however, are responsible\u200d for the \u200clack of Democratic\u2063 support on the bill as \u200cthey specifically seek to target what Republicans consider to be culture war\u2063 issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Next\u2062 Steps and\u200b Potential\u200d Challenges<\/h3>\n<p>The House is scheduled to reconvene and vote on the full legislation later in the evening. If passed, the\u200d bill will\u2063 then head to the Senate, where it\u2019s sure \u2063to \u2064be met with some opposition from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Congress \u2064has until the end of September to pass its \u200cannual \u200dbudget before the new fiscal year begins \u2062on Oct.\u2063 1, \u200cor \u2064else lawmakers risk a government shutdown. Budget\u2064 disagreements typically\u2064 drag out as both parties fight to include their own priorities, with a final\u2063 deal often not made until the\u200c eleventh\u200b hour after a marathon \u200cvoting session.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u200c that process has been\u200c made \u2062even more complicated\u2063 this\u2062 year. Some Freedom Caucus members are \u2064already signaling opposition \u2063to the spending levels \u200dagreed\u2064 to \u200cin the debt\u200c limit deal \u2062and threatening \u200bto vote against budget legislation unless spending levels are cut. Those sentiments\u200b are likely to put \u200cthe House on a collision course with Senate Democrats, who\u200b are likely drafting budgets with \u200ba \u200dmuch larger number.<\/p>\n<p>One source familiar\u2064 said that there isn\u2019t much consensus\u2063 among \u2063the Freedom Caucus \u200cas to what \u2063their concerns and disagreements\u2064 with the appropriations \u200bprocess \u200cactually are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO \u2063READ MORE \u200cFROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983238,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1983237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1983237","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=1983237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}