It's no accident that they want to see the speaker go first ahead of the shutdown deadline — thus leaving the Democratic Senate to follow their lead.
The Senate plans to fire up old-fashioned floor debate this week on bipartisan funding bills, but that technically does nothing to address the biggest problem on Congress’ plate: avoiding a government shutdown.The Senate will take its first procedural votes Tuesday on a nearly $280 billion government funding package that has broad bipartisan support.
The White House accused House Republicans of “wasting time” by advancing measures that look to cut tens of billions of dollars from the two-year budget agreement negotiated by Biden and McCarthy earlier this summer. The Senate’s bipartisan spending bills would adhere to those levels, and even include billions of dollars in extra emergency cash to pad out the Pentagon’s budget, along with other agencies.
“I think that’s one of those issues when it comes together, it’ll come together quickly, but until then, there’s just a lot of discussions and conversations around, you know, what’s the best way to get it done?” Thune said.offered some unsolicited advice to his counterpart across the Capitol: “Don’t let 30 people way out on the extreme dictate what the House does.”
Typically, a funding leader like Collins would be a top negotiator in brokering final government funding bills that could pass both chambers. But endgame negotiations on a bicameral compromise have yet to begin, since House Republicans continue pushing to advance annual spending measures below the funding levels McCarthy agreed to with Biden in this spring’s bipartisan debt limit plan.
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