2023-09-21 19:43:05
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a spending-cut plan to avert a federal government shutdown by appeasing its right wing, only to see it quickly collapse Thursday in a landslide. defeat.
His most recent attempt to advance a traditionally popular defense funding bill was derailed by a core of Republican colleagues who refused to vote in favor of the House speaker’s plans.
The test vote to advance the project failed 212-216, as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to prevent it.
Once again, the House of Representatives suddenly deadlocked and went into recess.
If Congress fails to pass the bills needed to fund the government, a federal shutdown looms on Sept. 30, the end of the current budget year.
McCarthy’s strategy of repeatedly caving in to hard-right conservatives appears to only embolden them, while a handful of GOP lawmakers, egged on by Donald Trump, the party’s favorite for the 2024 presidential nomination, trample on their own majority in the House of Representatives.
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