{"id":2017710,"date":"2023-08-31T04:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-considers-moving-spending-bills-forward-setting-up-fight-with-house-gop\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:19:05","slug":"senate-considers-moving-spending-bills-forward-setting-up-fight-with-house-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-considers-moving-spending-bills-forward-setting-up-fight-with-house-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate mulls advancing spending bills, sparking clash with House GOP."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fsenate-considers-moving-spending-bills-forward-setting-up-fight-with-house-gop%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=2017710&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 Senate&#8217;s Next Move in\u2063 Spending Showdown with House<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate is gearing \u200bup for a high-stakes spending showdown with the Republican-controlled House. Appropriations Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking \u2064Member Susan Collins \u200d(R-ME)\u2062 are working together to bring a package of\u200b three bills to \u2064the \u200dfloor in September.<\/p>\n<p>According to aides involved in the effort, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)\u200c and the leaders of the\u2064 Appropriations Committee\u2064 are considering moving forward with bills that would fund military construction, agriculture spending, and one other bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Panel \u200cApproves 12\u2063 Bills Ahead of Recess<\/h3>\n<p>Ahead of the August recess, the panel approved all \u200b12 bills, aligning them with the caps set\u2062 in the debt \u200dceiling\u2063 deal negotiated by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The agreement limits\u2064 overall national security spending in fiscal \u20632024 to $886 billion, with a 3% increase from current levels.\u200c In fiscal\u200b 2025, defense spending would be capped at $895\u2062 billion, a 1% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Senate Appropriations Committee has passed\u2064 all 12 bills to \u200cfund the government\u200d with strong, sometimes unanimous, bipartisan support. The Senate will work to get as much done \u200cas possible in \u2064September. \u2063To avoid a government shutdown, the \u2063House should follow the\u200c Senate\u2019s lead and \u2064pass their appropriations bills in a\u2063 bipartisan \u200dway,&#8221; Schumer said\u2064 in a statement to\u200d Politico.<\/p>\n<p>However, the looming \u200cfloor \u2063action sets up a clash with\u2062 the GOP-led House, where many\u2062 members opposed the debt \u2062ceiling deal and refused to vote for it. McCarthy\u200b and GOP \u2062leaders are now preparing bills with less spending\u200d than previously agreed to, influenced by a block of\u200d hard-line House conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The House managed to pass its <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 construction appropriations bill<\/a> before leaving for recess, but only \u200cone of the 12 must-pass spending bills.\u2063 House conservatives have also insisted on separate votes for each government funding bill, rather than\u2064 a\u2063 large &#8220;omnibus&#8221; bill.<\/p>\n<p>President\u200d Joe Biden&#8217;s supplemental request for\u200c approximately $40 billion for Ukraine assistance, border policies, and disaster \u200crecovery\u200c efforts further complicates the \u200dsituation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Consulting Senators\u200c for a Bill that Will Pass<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;We \u2063look forward to reviewing the administration\u2019s supplemental funding request carefully. Whether it\u2019s supplemental funding to defend against Russian aggression in Ukraine, to\u200c strengthen our global competitiveness,\u2063 to provide disaster relief for \u200ccommunities across America, or critical resources to stop the flow of fentanyl and address needs at the border \u2014 these are important priorities,&#8221; said Murray and Collins in a joint statement in early \u200bAugust. &#8220;We will be consulting \u2063with Senators on both \u200csides \u2064of \u2063the aisle, on and off committee, to craft a\u2062 bill that \u2062will \u2063pass the \u2064Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy \u200ccriticized Senate Republicans for attempting to \u200cspend above the caps set in the debt ceiling bill. He emphasized the need to pass the Homeland Security appropriations bill during a GOP members-only call, stating that the House needs to focus\u2062 on issues like borders and energy in \u2063negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>As the House \u2063and Senate work on passing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-covid-and-monkeypox-biden-asks-congress-for-another-47-billion-to-address-critical-needs-for-the-american-people\/\" title=\"Ukraine, COVID, And Monkeypox: Biden Asks Congress For Another  Billion To Address \u2018Critical Needs For The American People\u2019\">short-term spending bill<\/a> before \u200bthe September \u206230 \u200bdeadline, along with the supplemental\u2064 funding requests, negotiations are ongoing. However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/friday-october-8th-2021\/\" title=\"Friday | October 8th, 2021\">short-term deal<\/a> may face opposition from members of the House\u200d Freedom Caucus who have expressed their refusal to\u200c support it.<\/p>\n<p>Senate\u2064 Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) predicted the need for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-considers-moving-spending-bills-forward-setting-up-fight-with-house-gop\/\" title=\"Senate mulls advancing spending bills, sparking clash with House GOP.\">short-term \u200dcontinuing resolution<\/a> \u2063to fund the government until \u2063early December during a speech to the Northern\u200d Kentucky Chamber\u200c of Commerce Government Forum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s\u2062 a \u2064pretty big mess. The speaker and the\u200d president reached an agreement, which \u2062I \u2063supported in connection with raising the debt ceiling to set the spending levels for next year,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;The House then turned around and passed \u2063spending levels that were below \u2063that level. Without saying an opinion about that, that is not going to be replicated in the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE \u2063FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate, led by Chairwoman Patty Murray and Ranking Member Susan Collins, is strategizing its next move in the spending showdown with the Republican-controlled House. In September, they aim to present a package of three bills on the floor. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Appropriations Committee leaders are actively involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017711,"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-2017710","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\/2017710","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=2017710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}