Congressman Gaetz, a hard-line conservative Republican who opposes the temporary budget bill aimed at averting a federal government shutdown, said on the 24th that if demands such as border policies promoted by conservatives were included in the federal budget, He also showed that he was willing to shut down the government for several days.
Gaetz said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that if the Departments of Labor and Education were forced to shut down for several days as they worked on the spending bill, “that would certainly not be the best thing to do.” “I think it’s better than continuing down the path to financial bankruptcy for the United States,” he said.
Republican Congressman Gaetz
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House Republicans are expected to vote on four spending bills this week, but it will be difficult to pass a spending bill for fiscal year 2024 (October 2023-September 2024) by the deadline at the end of this month. To this end, the party is considering an interim budget proposal for 14 to 60 days.
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Burchett, a Republican who, like Gaetz, opposes the interim budget, said he would seriously consider supporting speaker McCarthy’s removal if he supported a budget that relied on Democratic votes. .
The Republican majority in the House of Representatives has a very small lead, and even a small number of rebels can block passage of the interim budget bill. Even if the party’s interim budget bill passes the House of Representatives, it is unlikely to be passed in the Senate, but the party intends to use the House bill, which reduces spending, as a starting point to begin negotiations.
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