{"id":1996661,"date":"2023-08-10T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-threat-intensifies-as-republicans-use-border-security-as-collateral\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:46:46","slug":"government-shutdown-threat-intensifies-as-republicans-use-border-security-as-collateral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-threat-intensifies-as-republicans-use-border-security-as-collateral\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans leverage border security to intensify government shutdown threat."},"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\">18<\/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-threat-intensifies-as-republicans-use-border-security-as-collateral%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=1996661&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>A \u200cGrowing Number of House Republicans \u2064Threaten Government Shutdown Over Border Security<\/h2>\n<p>A growing number of House \u200bRepublicans \u200care taking a stand on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">border security<\/a>, potentially \u2062setting the \u200bstage for\u200c a government\u2062 shutdown. At least 15 Texas Republicans, led by \u200bRep. Chip\u2063 Roy, have signed a letter outlining their demands for the Biden administration in exchange for\u2063 their \u2064support on a bill to fund\u2062 the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-shutdown-threat-intensifies-as-republicans-use-border-security-as-collateral\/\" title=\"Republicans leverage border security to intensify government shutdown threat.\">demands include tightening \u2063security<\/a> at\u2064 the \u2063southern border, which Roy argues is a\u200d &#8220;national \u2062crisis.&#8221; \u200bHe stated, &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to get a tax dollar to fund the\u2063 Department of Homeland Security \u2062that&#8217;s\u2063 allowing \u2062that\u200b to occur on our watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This move by House Republicans puts House\u2062 Speaker Kevin McCarthy \u2062in a difficult position. He must find a way to appease\u200c the demands of those\u200c on his right flank without\u2064 alienating moderate Republicans. McCarthy can only afford to lose four\u2062 GOP votes \u2064on any legislation if all Democrats are in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic freshman Rep. Jeff Jackson\u2063 criticized the move, stating, &#8220;In\u200c the House, you&#8217;ve got a group of folks on the right\u2063 flank who want to shut down the government so \u2062they&#8217;re asking for things they know everyone else in their party will say no \u200dto.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Roy&#8217;s letter\u200c lays out four conditions that must be met for him to support any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-for-taxpayer-funded-abortion-remove-historically-bipartisan-amendments\/\" title=\"Democrats Push For Taxpayer-Funded Abortion, Remove Historically Bipartisan Amendments\">spending legislation<\/a>, including\u200b the implementation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tyler-county-is-texas-10th-to-declare-an-invasion-at-southern-border\/\" title=\"Tyler County Is Texas\u2019 10th To Declare An Invasion At Southern Border\">stronger border security measures<\/a> and the signing of\u200c H.R. 2, a GOP-led border security bill.<\/p>\n<p>As Congress returns from recess, they have just 18 days to pass the budget \u200band avoid a government shutdown. It remains \u2063to be seen\u200c whether the House will approve\u200d a continuing resolution, as some conservatives have expressed opposition to such a measure.<\/p>\n<p>House \u200dSpeaker McCarthy remains confident\u200b in the\u2062 ability \u200bof Republicans \u2063to advance legislation and pass all appropriations bills before the deadline. However, he faces challenges within his own conference \u2062as members of the House Freedom Caucus\u200b demand deep spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The clash between House Republicans and Senate \u200cDemocrats over budget\u2062 priorities is likely to intensify in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are increasing pressure on the Biden administration, demanding significant alterations to border security measures. This stance may lead to a government shutdown before the approaching September deadline. Rep. Chip Roy has garnered support from over 15 Texas Republicans, as they signed a letter expressing their concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1996662,"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-1996661","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\/1996661","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=1996661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}