{"id":2050890,"date":"2023-09-30T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-urges-senate-republicans-to-block-bipartisan-cr-as-house-pushes-clean-stopgap\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:33:31","slug":"mcconnell-urges-senate-republicans-to-block-bipartisan-cr-as-house-pushes-clean-stopgap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-urges-senate-republicans-to-block-bipartisan-cr-as-house-pushes-clean-stopgap\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell urges GOP to block bipartisan CR as House pushes clean stopgap."},"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%2Fmcconnell-urges-senate-republicans-to-block-bipartisan-cr-as-house-pushes-clean-stopgap%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=2050890&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>Senate Republicans to Block Bipartisan Continuing Resolution<\/h2>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch \u200bMcConnell (R-KY) made a bold announcement on Saturday, \u200brevealing \u200dthat \u2064Senate Republicans will\u200d use their power to \u200ddeny \u2064Democrats the\u200d cloture votes needed to advance the chamber&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-plots-path-forward-on-government-spending-deal-may-get-worse-before-it-gets-better\/\" title=\"House Republicans strategize on government spending deal: Expect potential worsening before improvement.\">bipartisan continuing resolution<\/a>. This \u2063move comes \u200das the \u200bHouse \u200dconsiders a clean CR, putting the Democrats in\u200d a tough\u200d spot.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Democrats hold a slim majority in\u2064 the Senate with a 50-49 control. However, the absence of Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and \u2064Tina Smith (D-MN) leaves them \u200cwith a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-urges-senate-republicans-to-block-bipartisan-cr-as-house-pushes-clean-stopgap\/\" title=\"McConnell urges GOP to block bipartisan CR as House pushes clean stopgap.\">single-seat minority<\/a>. This means\u2063 that Republicans have the ability to block the McConnell-approved bipartisan CR, which includes $6 billion in Ukraine \u2064aid and $6 billion in disaster\u200c aid.<\/p>\n<h3>House Republicans Push for a \u200cClean Stopgap<\/h3>\n<p>While House Republicans are actively pushing for a clean\u2062 stopgap measure to avert a shutdown, their Senate counterparts\u200b have decided to withdraw \u200dtheir support \u2063for the same\u2062 measure. Senate Republicans \u200dare now waiting\u2064 to see if a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">bipartisan agreement<\/a> can be\u2062 reached in the House before making their move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks\u2063 like there may be \u2064a bipartisan\u2064 agreement coming\u200b from the House,&#8221; McConnell shared with reporters just\u200d off the Senate floor. &#8220;So\u2062 I&#8217;m fairly confident that most of our members are going to vote against closure. Not\u2064 necessarily because they&#8217;re opposed to the underlying bill. We&#8217;ll see what the House can do on a bipartisan basis and then\u2064 bring it over to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u200c developing story and will be updated accordingly.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What is the reason behind Senate Republicans&#8217; decision to block the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-inches-closer-to-shutdown-solution\/\" title=\"Senate Nears Shutdown Solution\">bipartisan continuing \u200bresolution<\/a>?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200b Senate Republicans, under the\u2064 leadership of \u200bMinority Leader Mitch McConnell, have announced their intention \u200dto block \u2063the bipartisan continuing resolution in the Senate.\u2064 This bold\u200b move puts \u2063Democrats in \u200ca tough spot, as \u200cthey were hoping \u200cto pass \u2063a clean\u2062 CR in \u200cthe House.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Democrats hold a slim majority in the Senate with 50 seats. However, \u2064the absence of Senators \u200cDebbie Stabenow and Tina Smith\u2064 leaves them with just a single-seat\u200b majority. With\u200d this advantage, Republicans have the \u2062power to \u200ddeny cloture votes, effectively blocking \u200bthe bipartisan CR proposed by McConnell. This CR includes\u200c provisions for $6 billion in Ukraine\u200c aid as well\u2064 as $6 billion in disaster aid.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to\u2064 their Senate counterparts, House \u200bRepublicans are\u2064 pushing \u2062for a clean stopgap measure to avoid a \u200cgovernment shutdown. It remains to be\u200c seen whether \u2062a bipartisan agreement can be reached in the House\u2062 before Senate Republicans \u2062make their move.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, McConnell expressed confidence that a bipartisan agreement \u200cmay emerge from the House. He stated \u200bthat most Republican senators are\u2063 likely to vote \u2064against cloture, not necessarily because they oppose the underlying bill,\u2064 but to see \u200cwhat the House can \u200caccomplish on a bipartisan basis before sending it over\u2064 to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2064 is a developing story, and updates will be provided accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that Senate Republicans will block Democrats&#8217; cloture votes to advance the bipartisan continuing resolution. With Democrats holding a slim majority of 50-49 in the Senate, the absence of Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Tina Smith (D-MN) further complicates their position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2050891,"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-2050890","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\/2050890","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=2050890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}