Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival.

Senators, having apparently lost faith in McCarthy’s ability to stave off a shutdown, negotiated a bill late Tuesday night that funds the government until Nov. 17 and includes $12 billion in aid and disaster relief for Ukraine. It’s expected to be voted on by the end of the week before being sent over to the House, and is intended to buy lawmakers more time to hash out a longer-term deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.

But, according to Punchbowl News, McCarthy said in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t take up a bill that includes Ukraine funding but no border security measures. “I don’t see the support in the House,” he reportedly said.

Aid for Ukraine has been one of several sticking points for ultraconservative hardliners in the House who have repeatedly sabotaged McCarthy’s efforts to get spending bills passed.

  • @thantik
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    2561 year ago

    They aren’t “Ultraconservative”, they’re “Russian Plants in the US Political system”

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      361 year ago

      Domestic terrorists whipping up a cult, pretending to be a political party.

    • Kalkaline
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      211 year ago

      There is a large portion of America that agrees with this choad. They’ll keep voting him and his buddies in, and we’ll never get our country back.