The committee-passed version authorizes $874 billion in spending, an increase from the $847.3 billion approved for fiscal 2023. The House is taking up its version of the legislation this week. … We have to be a deterrent and we do that through providing the budget that the military needs.” We know that the world is not safe in other places. If we don’t have world peace, we have nothing. “National security needs to be a priority for each and every one of us.
This is not the time,” Kiggans said, referring to the annual defense authorization bill. Jen Kiggans (Va.) on Monday brought up her opposition to stopgap funding by mentioning an agency that Republicans want to fund more, as opposed to federal spending they are hoping to cut. Resistance to a stopgap funding measure is not limited to hard-line conservatives. A provision intended to encourage Congress to pass appropriations in a timely manner requires any stopgap measures would include 1 percent spending cuts, even for the Pentagon, if funding bills are not approved by Jan. In a way, the debt ceiling deal anticipated the need for a short-term stopgap extending beyond Sept. Yet that spending freeze has done little to mollify the conservative deficit hawks in the House, who are demanding 2024 cuts back to 2022 levels and expect McCarthy to achieve those reductions without any budgetary gimmicks. “Every effort needs to be focused on reasonable spending reductions within these 12 appropriations bills, not trying to punt the ball yet again,” Norman’s spokesperson said.Ĭomplicating the equation for House Republicans has been the McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling deal, which capped nondefense discretionary spending in 2024 at roughly the 2023 level - the figure Senate Democrats are using as their baseline. Both were part of the concessions McCarthy made to conservatives in January to win their support for his Speakership. Taking that promise a step further, he has also vowed to reject a massive compilation of those bills, known as an omnibus, which has become Congress’s standard strategy for funding the government at year’s end.
McCarthy, in a break from Speakers of the past, has committed to passing all 12 appropriations bills this year. 1 would force large parts of the federal government to shut down. The early hostility toward a temporary funding fix could pose headaches for McCarthy, who heads into the appropriations battle facing pressure to cut a spending deal with Democrats without infuriating the conservative deficit hawks who are already eyeing hardball tactics to prevent such an agreement from reaching President Biden’s desk. “I will not support Democrat policies that are destroying our country, and a CR, even short term, would do just that.” Clay Higgins (R-La.) said in a statement. “None of us want a CR in any form, and the most conservative of us are at the table working together with our Republican colleagues to get the job done,” Rep.
But such an extension, by keeping spending at current levels, would defy the hard-liners’ demands for aggressive deficit reduction in fiscal 2024.Īnd some are already warning against the CR strategy for that reason. 30 could pose unique challenges for Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as he tries to ward off a conservative revolt and prevent a shutdown.Ĭonservatives are not yet saying they’ll flatly oppose a short-term funding patch, known as a continuing resolution (CR), as they push to secure sharp spending cuts in next year’s appropriations bills. The normally routine task of passing a stopgap measure to fund the government after Sept.
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