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House conservative demands stall efforts to avert shutdown (thehill.com)

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Conservatives’ demands for controversial policy additions to spending bills are stalling efforts to fund the government by Friday, nudging the country closer to a partial government shutdown and sparking frustration among lawmakers in both parties.

Congressional leaders failed to unveil the long-awaited compromise appropriations bills over the weekend, blowing through a Sunday target date floated last week and, as a result, leaving members wondering about a path forward just days ahead of the looming deadline.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said House Republicans were responsible for the holdup, writing in a letter to colleagues Sunday that conservatives in the lower chamber “need more time to sort themselves out.” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), however, dismissed his “counterproductive rhetoric,” saying that new requests from Democrats had delayed the process.

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[-] bradv@lemmy.ca 82 points 8 months ago

“Anything I vote for has to secure our border."

Didn't Republicans kill a border bill like a month ago? And now they're making border demands on a spending bill that has nothing to do with the border?

[-] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago

The border bill they negotiated, yes. Once trump said not to give Biden any wins, the bill they negotiated and were in favor of was suddenly the worst border bill possible. I have talked to people on this platform who had that talking point.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

It doesn't matter because their base will fucking eat up them saying that anyways.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Copy/paste the entirety of the voted down previously agreed border bill into the budget.

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