House GOP Leadership Whips Against Short-Term Funding BillWendell Husebø 14 Dec 2022
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) has whipped House members against voting for a short term government funding bill that Democrats and some establishment Republicans want to pass before a potential shutdown on Friday.
The shorter funding bill was revealed earlier Tuesday and is expected to receive a vote on the House floor later on Wednesday. The bill is designed to give establishment Republicans and Democrats more time to negotiate a larger “omnibus” government funding bill for this fiscal year.
“Once again, House Democrats failed to meet the fundamental duty of funding the government despite spending most of the year passing trillions in wasteful spending that has fueled inflation and driven up our debt,” Scalise said.
“This one-week continuing resolution is an attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table,” he added.
GOP House leadership has whipped against the short term spending bill because it believes incoming Republican House members should have a say in federal expenditures in the omnibus package that would fund the government until the end of the current fiscal year on September 30, 2023.
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