The crystal ball predicts that the Senate will advance some appropriations bills and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will try to pass an interim spending package, but it remains unclear if the House will accept a bipartisan continuing resolution from the Senate to avoid a government shutdown.
House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, faces the tough choice of either risking a government shutdown or alienating the hard-right flank of his party, which could lead to the loss of his speakership, as the House must pass a spending package to keep the federal government open before the end of the fiscal year on September 30th.
Conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives are threatening spending levels and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, creating a complicated funding debate that could potentially jeopardize McCarthy's leadership role.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a leadership challenge as he navigates a government funding battle between House Republican hard-liners opposing Ukraine aid and threatening a government shutdown, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who supports Ukraine aid and opposes a shutdown.
House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposes a "minibus" of funding bills as a way to avoid a government shutdown and address appropriations, which includes packaging regular appropriations bills covering military construction, Veterans Affairs, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security with disaster relief funding.
House GOP leadership's spending standoff with conservatives intensified as Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to delay a procedural vote on legislation to fund the Pentagon, despite opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden in an attempt to appease conservative demands on spending.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to resurrect a stalled Pentagon spending measure and push it to the House floor in an effort to pressure far-right Republicans to drop their demands for spending cuts or face backlash for voting against military funding.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has demanded an 8% temporary spending cut for domestic agencies and a resumption of border wall construction to hold off a US government shutdown, but the demands are unlikely to be accepted by the Democratic-led Senate.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his allies are pushing for a short-term spending plan that includes conservative priorities, but it remains uncertain if it can pass the House and avert a government shutdown.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is standing firm on a short-term government funding deal negotiated by members of the House Freedom Caucus and Main Street Caucus, despite opposition from conservative members who claim they have not read the deal.
Procedural vote on Pentagon funding bill is blocked by hard-line conservatives, dealing a blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reversing his plan to remove Ukraine aid from a military spending bill as Republicans struggle to find a way forward on funding the government.
House Republicans advance conservative spending bills in an attempt to prevent a government shutdown, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's win does not bring Congress any closer to a resolution as the bills contain spending cuts that are unlikely to pass in the Senate.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is asking hard-right Republicans to approve their own temporary House measure to prevent a government shutdown, despite their previous objections, as Congress approaches a Sunday deadline for funding.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy criticized a Senate government funding bill for not addressing border security, raising concerns of a possible government shutdown, as lawmakers race to reach an agreement before a looming deadline.
The Democratic-controlled Senate plans a procedural vote on a short-term spending measure to avoid a government shutdown, which Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has rejected due to disagreements over spending levels and immigration policies.
House Republicans have approved legislation to fund the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2024 after removing Ukraine funding from the bill.
As Speaker Kevin McCarthy resists scheduling a House vote on a spending bill, President Joe Biden's aides believe that any government shutdown will be blamed on McCarthy and his fellow Republicans rather than the White House, according to officials.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced a critical challenge as he pushed through a 45-day stopgap spending measure to keep the government funded through November and avert a shutdown, highlighting the precarious position of the GOP with their razor-thin majority.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to blame Democrats for the last-minute nature of the bill to fund the government, but CBS' Margaret Brennan laughed at his claim, pointing out that Democrats actually voted for the bill in larger numbers than Republicans.
A group of GOP representatives wrote a letter expressing their disapproval of the ousting of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker, stating that it goes against the will of the majority of Republicans and calling for a review of the rules changes made earlier this year; meanwhile, House Republicans are scrambling to elect a new speaker and pass spending bills before government funding runs out.
The recent attacks in Israel and the need for U.S. aid have led centrist House Republicans to discuss reinstating Kevin McCarthy as House speaker in order to address the crisis more quickly.
