{"id":2006744,"date":"2023-08-21T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-caucus-opposes-short-term-continuing-resolution-unless-conservative-policies-are-passed-alongside\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:25:40","slug":"freedom-caucus-opposes-short-term-continuing-resolution-unless-conservative-policies-are-passed-alongside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-caucus-opposes-short-term-continuing-resolution-unless-conservative-policies-are-passed-alongside\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Caucus opposes short-term continuing resolution without conservative policies."},"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%2Ffreedom-caucus-opposes-short-term-continuing-resolution-unless-conservative-policies-are-passed-alongside%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=2006744&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 Freedom Caucus\u2062 Demands\u2062 Conservative Wins in\u200d Funding Battle<\/h2>\n<p>The House Freedom \u200cCaucus has made it clear that they will\u2063 not support a stop-gap \u200dfunding measure without tying\u200d it to \u2064conservative \u2062policy victories. This\u2064 sets the\u2063 stage for a contentious battle when the House reconvenes after its August recess.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker \u2063Kevin\u200d McCarthy \u200crecently announced\u2063 that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-stop-gap-bill-funding-government-through-february\/\" title=\"House Passes Stop-Gap Bill Funding Government Through February\">short-term continuing resolution<\/a> will likely be necessary to provide more time for the House and Senate to\u2063 pass and negotiate their \u206212 appropriations\u2064 bills. However, this idea did not sit \u200bwell\u2064 with the hard-line conservative \u2063members \u200dof the Republican conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Freedom Caucus&#8217;s Three Demands<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for House Republicans&#8217; border security bill, the Secure the Border Act of 2023<\/li>\n<li>Addressing the alleged weaponization of the \u2062Justice Department and FBI<\/li>\n<li>Ending what they \u200cperceive as &#8220;woke policies&#8221; \u200cin the \u200bPentagon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The House has already faced challenges \u200din passing\u2064 its appropriations bills, managing to pass only one before the August recess. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-caucus-opposes-short-term-continuing-resolution-unless-conservative-policies-are-passed-alongside\/\" title=\"Freedom Caucus opposes short-term continuing resolution without conservative policies.\">agriculture appropriation bill faced opposition<\/a> from both the Freedom Caucus and centrist\u2064 Republicans, resulting in it\u200d not being \u2063voted on.<\/p>\n<p>Adding these demands to the funding process is likely\u2064 to make\u200c it even more difficult, as Senate Democrats are expected to oppose them. This increases the chances of a government\u200d shutdown if an agreement cannot be\u2064 reached. However, some Republicans do not view a shutdown \u2064as\u2063 a \u2063catastrophic outcome.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty open about the fact\u200b that we\u200b shouldn&#8217;t fear a government shutdown,&#8221; \u200dsaid Rep. Bob\u2064 Good (R-VA). &#8220;And\u200d if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s \u2063necessary \u200dto\u2063 force spending cuts, then we should utilize that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recognizing the limited time \u2064available to pass the remaining appropriations bills,\u2063 the Freedom Caucus acknowledges that a short-term continuing resolution\u2063 is likely. However, they want to ensure\u2064 that it truly remains\u2062 short-term and\u2063 that their demands are met.<\/p>\n<p>The caucus also\u200c opposes reverting to the old tactic of using short-term funding extensions to push Congress towards passing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-passes-massive-covid-relief-omnibus-bill-sending-billions-of-dollars-to-foreign-countries-measure-heads-to-president-trumps-desk\/\" title=\"Congress Passes Massive Covid Relief\/Omnibus Bill Sending Billions of Dollars to Foreign Countries \u2013 Measure Heads to President Trump\u2019s Desk\">omnibus spending bill<\/a>. Speaker McCarthy has \u200cstated that he will not bring such a bill to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Other House Republicans share the\u2064 sentiment of\u200b needing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-skirts-nationwide-economic-catastrophe-after-last-minute-agreement-to-lift-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Congress Skirts Nationwide Economic Catastrophe After Last-Minute Agreement To Lift Debt Ceiling\">short-term extension<\/a> to get the appropriations bills passed and into law.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If we need a few weeks, I can probably live with that,&#8221; said Rep. Morgan Griffith\u200c (R-VA), a member of the Freedom Caucus. &#8220;I think we should do two weeks, and if we need to do another week after \u2064that, fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the\u200d Freedom Caucus\u2063 expresses openness to supporting a short-term continuing resolution at current funding levels, they remain committed to funding the\u200b government at the fiscal 2022 topline spending level without using &#8220;gimmicks or reallocated rescissions.&#8221; They oppose Democrats&#8217;\u200c bloated COVID-era spending\u200c and demand that the Biden Administration follows the law and fulfills its responsibilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Any support for a &#8216;clean&#8217; Continuing Resolution would be an affirmation \u2062of the current FY 2023\u200c spending level grossly increased by the lame-duck December 2022 omnibus\u2064 spending bill that \u2064we all vehemently opposed just\u200d seven months ago,&#8221; stated the Freedom Caucus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement\u200b also \u2062reiterates the Freedom Caucus&#8217;s opposition to \u2064providing a\u2063 &#8220;blank check&#8221; for Ukraine in any supplemental\u2062 appropriations bill.\u2062 The \u2062Biden \u2064administration&#8217;s request for emergency \u2064supplemental\u200c funding, including aid to Ukraine, has faced\u2063 significant pushback \u200bfrom conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more \u200dfrom The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Freedom Caucus refuses to back a temporary funding measure without conservative policy victories. This disagreement will lead to a heated conflict upon the House&#8217;s return from recess. Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s prediction of a short-term continuing resolution was shared during a private member-only call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2006745,"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-2006744","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\/2006744","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=2006744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}