{"id":2026565,"date":"2023-09-09T04:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T08:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-supplemental-bill-faces-unclear-future-amid-house-and-senate-differences\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T04:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T08:10:29","slug":"ukraine-supplemental-bill-faces-unclear-future-amid-house-and-senate-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-supplemental-bill-faces-unclear-future-amid-house-and-senate-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertain future for Ukraine supplemental bill due to House and Senate discrepancies."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fukraine-supplemental-bill-faces-unclear-future-amid-house-and-senate-differences%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=2026565&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 \u2062Fate of Defense Spending Bill \u200bHangs \u2064in the Balance<\/h2>\n<p>The fate of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-supplemental-bill-faces-unclear-future-amid-house-and-senate-differences\/\" title=\"Uncertain future for Ukraine supplemental bill due to House and Senate discrepancies.\">supplemental defense spending \u200cbill\u2063 remains \u2062uncertain<\/a> as the House and \u2063Senate return from August \u2062recess. Both chambers are facing the threat of a government shutdown and a \u2062broader dispute over defense spending levels and\u2064 Ukraine aid.<\/p>\n<h3>Race Against the \u200cClock<\/h3>\n<p>The federal government is set to run out of money on Sept. 30, leaving less than 15 in-session days for the House and Senate to\u2063 find a resolution and prevent a shutdown. Complicating matters \u2063further, appropriators in both chambers \u2062have been working\u2064 on government funding bills at different spending levels.<\/p>\n<h3>Senate&#8217;s Efforts<\/h3>\n<p>In the Senate, Chairwoman Patty Murray and \u200branking member \u200bSusan Collins have been advancing the 12 annual appropriations bills using spending levels \u2063agreed upon in a deal between \u2064President Joe\u2062 Biden and House Speaker \u200bKevin McCarthy. However, senators from both sides of the aisle are \u2063unhappy \u200dwith the defense caps in the deal, which could hinder the Pentagon&#8217;s ability to\u2062 allocate resources\u2063 effectively.<\/p>\n<h3>A Potential Solution<\/h3>\n<p>To address the concerns of defense hawks, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch \u200cMcConnell have pledged to\u2064 bring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-rejects-supplemental-defense-spending-bill\/\" title=\"McCarthy denies extra defense spending bill.\">supplemental defense spending bill<\/a> up for a vote later in the year. However, House Speaker McCarthy has rejected the idea of passing a defense supplemental.<\/p>\n<h3>Short-Term Resolution<\/h3>\n<p>Both Speaker McCarthy and Senator Schumer have expressed support for a short-term continuing resolution to buy \u200cmore time for negotiations on the appropriations bills. However,\u200d the president and a majority of senators are still \u200cpushing for a defense supplemental \u200cthat includes Ukraine aid.<\/p>\n<h3>The Road Ahead<\/h3>\n<p>The path to passing a defense supplemental through the\u200c House remains uncertain. Some lawmakers have suggested attaching Ukraine \u2062aid and disaster relief to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-becomes-first-country-to-land-on-moons-south-pole\/\" title=\"India achieves historic milestone, lands on Moon's South Pole.\">short-term \u200bfunding bill<\/a>, while others have emphasized the need to \u2062address broader challenges such as China and Taiwan. The outcome\u2063 will\u200d depend on careful \u2064maneuvering and \u2062bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u200dthe challenges, there is hope \u200bthat a resolution can be reached, as Senator \u2064Gillibrand noted, &#8220;If it\u200c starts \u200bbipartisan in\u200c the \u2063Senate, it\u2063 means it can \u2062also be bipartisan in the House.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supplemental defense spending bill&#8217;s future is uncertain as the House and Senate reconvene after August recess. The Senate resumed earlier this week, while the House will return next Tuesday. Both face the risk of a government shutdown and a larger disagreement over defense spending and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026566,"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-2026565","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\/2026565","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=2026565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}