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With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House.

With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House.

The Senate stopgap bill, which would keep the government funded until November 17, includes $6.2 billion in Ukraine aid and $6 billion for natural disasters.

The release of the Senate bill, which was negotiated on a bipartisan basis, sets up a stark contrast – and a showdown – with the House, where the Republican majority faces deep divisions and the demands of hardline conservatives have been highly influential in driving the agenda as a shutdown looms.

  • @slumlordthanatos
    3•1 year ago

    Nah, McCarthy is fucked either way because cutting a deal with Democrats will mean getting primaried when he’s up for reelection.

    • @roy_mustang76English
      10•1 year ago

      That’s likely to happen anyway because he put himself in a no win scenario. The hard liners’ demands can’t make it through the Senate, because even the Senate Republicans aren’t onboard with that shit.

      So it’s cut a deal with the Democrats to keep the government open, and get primaried, or shutdown the government and weaken the party in 2024… And get primaried because his speakership was disastrous.

      Gaetz’s imaginary door #3 doesn’t exist, and McCarthy knows it.