{"id":876753,"date":"2021-10-13T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876753"},"modified":"2021-10-13T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:44:04","slug":"analysis-congress-punts-its-most-consequential-tasks-to-december-with-little-plan-and-worsening-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-congress-punts-its-most-consequential-tasks-to-december-with-little-plan-and-worsening-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Congress Punts Its Most Consequential Tasks To December With Little Plan And Worsening Gridlock"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fanalysis-congress-punts-its-most-consequential-tasks-to-december-with-little-plan-and-worsening-gridlock%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=876753&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--><p>Congress in the past two weeks managed to avoid a government shutdown and a nationwide debt default amid one of the busiest legislative months in recent memory, but their last-minute deals set up a December that could be especially painful.<\/p>\n<p>While lawmakers avoided a shutdown by mere hours in September, their short-term funding bill only keeps the government open until Dec. 3, giving Congress less than two months to agree on a spending package for the next fiscal year. Congress also struck a deal to lift the ceiling by $480 billion in October and sent a bill to President Joe Biden\u2019s desk Tuesday, but like the government funding, the higher cap only covers expenses until sometime in December, frustrating lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called the patch an \u201cirresponsible and despicable act for adults who know better,\u201d Tuesday even as he urged members to vote for it, while Republicans slammed the process Democrats used to advance it.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle Fischbach called the measure \u201can insult to the members of this body, who are being denied the opportunity to fully consider the gravity of extending the debt limit,\u201d adding that it \u201caccomplishes nothing more than kicking the can down the road on something that should be addressed now.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/house-approves-debt-ceiling-increase-delaying-nationwide-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House Approves Debt Ceiling Increase, Temporarily Delaying Nationwide Default)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7301216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7301216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in the Capitol Tuesday, when the House advanced a short-term debt limit extension. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a result of pushing the debt ceiling and government funding until December, Congress may<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>find itself in a similar situation, but this time higher tensions with even more partisan gridlock.<\/p>\n<p>Animosity between the parties has only increased after the Republicans, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/07\/schumer-says-debt-ceiling-default-deal-reached\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave support<\/a> for Democrats to raise the ceiling through December, giving them more time to craft a larger increase that can pass on party lines. But the deal was ill-received by some in his own caucus, who accused McConnell of caving to the majority and warned of the frenzied schedule that would arise as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think us allowing them to use regular order to raise the debt ceiling encourages more spending, and putting it in December is another train wreck we\u2019ve got to deal with,\u201d said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. \u201cI think this is overall a bad decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer won this game of chicken,\u201d Sen. Ted Cruz said prior to the vote with regards to McConnell\u2019s compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after 11 Republican senators joined Democrats in advancing the bill, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lambasted the party on the Senate floor for playing a \u201cdangerous and risky partisan game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad that their brinksmanship did not work,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cThe solution is for Republicans to either join us in raising the debt limit or stay out of the way and let Democrats address the debt limit ourselves.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/07\/senate-republicans-filibuster-democratic-bill-raise-debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Senate Passes Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase As Congress Moves To Avoid Economic Catastrophe)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His remarks were met with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/08\/joe-manchin-chuck-schumer-republicans-debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan criticism<\/a>, and McConnell swiftly came out and said that Democrats should no longer count on getting any help from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis childish behavior only further alienated the Republican members who helped facilitate this short-term patch,\u201d McConnell said after Schumer\u2019s remarks. \u201cI am writing to make it clear that in light of Senator Schumer\u2019s hysterics and my grave concerns about the ways that another vast, reckless partisan spending bill would hurt Americans and help China, I will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of Democratic mismanagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7301213\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7301213\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7301213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1345412038-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7301213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate chamber Thursday. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The mutual disdain could spill over into the government funding fight as well, especially if Democrats tie it to a debt ceiling increase. They already tried to do so in September, and have refused to entertain raising the debt ceiling via reconciliation, which Republicans have insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are also trying to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and their multitrillion spending package before funding the government and raising the debt ceiling. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to pass the bills before the end of October when federal surface transportation funds expire, even as an official top line for the budget has yet to be reached and left-wing Democrats have refused to vote for the infrastructure package until the budget is passed. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/01\/joe-biden-meeting-house-democrats-economic-agenda-gonna-get-this-done\/\">(RELATED: Biden After Meeting With Democrats About Economic Agenda: \u2018We\u2019re Gonna Get This Done\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said Tuesday that \u201cdifficult decisions must be made very soon,\u201d and that some programs touted on the left were at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/pelosi-budget-fewer-things-well-democrat-cuts\/\">risk of being axed completely<\/a>, though it remains unclear which ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverwhelmingly, the guidance I am receiving from Members is to do fewer things well so that we can still have a transformative impact on families in the workplace and responsibly address the climate crisis: a Build Back Better agenda for jobs and the planet For The Children!\u201d Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress in the past two weeks managed to avoid a government shutdown and a nationwide debt default amid one of the busiest legislative months in recent memory, but their last-minute &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876753","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=876753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}