{"id":1997432,"date":"2023-08-11T04:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-defense-supplemental-looms-over-government-shutdown-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T04:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T08:09:29","slug":"biden-defense-supplemental-looms-over-government-shutdown-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-defense-supplemental-looms-over-government-shutdown-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s defense supplemental adds to government shutdown battle."},"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%2Fbiden-defense-supplemental-looms-over-government-shutdown-fight%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=1997432&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>President Biden&#8217;s Supplemental Request \u2064Sets Up Spending Showdown<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s new\u200d supplemental request for approximately $40 billion is\u2062 causing a stir among lawmakers as they gear up for a\u200d spending showdown this\u200b fall. The request, aimed at providing additional assistance for Ukraine, funding for border policies, and\u200b disaster recovery efforts, is already \u2063sparking controversy.<\/p>\n<h3>Emergency Funding Needs<\/h3>\n<p>The supplemental request, which senior administration officials say is necessary for the first quarter of 2024, includes\u200c several key\u2062 allocations. These\u200b include $24 billion for Ukraine, $4 billion for southern border and immigration operations, $12 billion to replenish the\u2063 Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s disaster relief fund, and $60 million \u200cto boost firefighter pay.<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Opposition<\/h3>\n<p>The request is already facing opposition from House Speaker\u200c Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and other Republicans in the Republican-led\u200b House. They have\u2064 made it \u200cclear\u2062 that they will\u2062 not approve aid to \u2062Ukraine for the next fiscal year. Hard-line House conservatives, who hold significant influence over the spending process, are pushing \u200bfor bills with reduced \u2062spending to win\u200b over their support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;No. This should be a non-starter for\u2063 the House GOP,&#8221;\u200d said Rep. Chip\u200d Roy (R-TX). &#8220;It&#8217;s \u2064time to stand up for\u200b Americans and against the \u200duniparty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the request may gain some bipartisan support, at least one senior GOP \u200dmember has expressed\u2064 doubts about Republicans having enough votes to\u2064 pass \u200ca Ukraine \u2063supplemental without Democratic help.<\/p>\n<h3>Time is Running Out<\/h3>\n<p>Time is\u200c of the essence for lawmakers to approve funding \u2064before the\u2064 existing U.S. aid for Ukraine runs out by the end of September. Congress has already approved $113\u2062 billion in aid to Ukraine since the start of the war, but funding for Ukraine has \u200cdecreased\u2064 in popularity among\u200d House Republicans in recent\u200d months.<\/p>\n<h3>Bipartisan Support in\u2062 the Senate<\/h3>\n<p>Senators on\u200b both sides of the aisle appear more inclined to support President Biden&#8217;s request. The\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/food-stamps-where-you-can-use-your-snap-benefits\/\" title=\"SNAP benefits: Accepted locations for food stamps.\">debt ceiling deal passed<\/a> in \u200dJune limited Pentagon \u2062spending for the next two\u2064 years, which was a contentious issue for defense hawks. Senate\u2064 Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has expressed the need for supplemental aid to Ukraine and has criticized the defense spending levels in the new\u2063 debt limit law.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200cdefense\u200b number is totally inadequate to meet the challenges that we\u200b have in \u200cAsia,\u2063 not to mention Ukraine,&#8221; McConnell said during a\u200d press conference.\u200c &#8220;It&#8217;s a \u2063problem. \u200cIt&#8217;s a serious problem that hopefully we&#8217;ll find some way over the course of the year to\u2063 address.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) \u2063also supports President Biden&#8217;s request \u2064and anticipates challenges in \u2063reconciling the funding requests between the two \u2064chambers.<\/p>\n<h3>Deadline Approaching<\/h3>\n<p>Lawmakers \u200bhave approximately three \u2062weeks to pass a federal budget before \u200cthe\u2062 September 30 deadline. Budget disagreements often drag out, with a final deal reached at the last minute. If an agreement cannot\u2062 be reached, lawmakers may\u2062 resort\u2063 to passing a continuing resolution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-defense-supplemental-looms-over-government-shutdown-fight\/\" title=\"Biden's defense supplemental adds to government shutdown battle.\">maintain current\u2064 funding\u200b levels<\/a> while\u2062 negotiations continue. However, some <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> are not ruling out a government shutdown to push for the budget&#8217;s \u200dpassage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s $40 billion supplemental request for Ukraine, border policies, and disaster recovery is setting the stage for a spending showdown. The administration claims it will address emergency funding needs for the first quarter, sparking a new battle among lawmakers this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997433,"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-1997432","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\/1997432","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=1997432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}