The House is expected to launch an evening vote, but it’s not at all clear that McCarthy has the support needed as holdouts demand steeper spending cuts.
eager to slash spending even if it means halting pay for the military and curtailing federal services for millions of Americans.
Meanwhile, the Senate, trying to stave off a federal closure, is preparing its own bipartisan plan for a stopgap measure to keep offices funded in the days before Saturday’s deadline. “We made a deal, we shook hands, and said this is what we’re going to do. Now, they’re reneging on the deal,” Biden said late Monday.
“Unless you get everything, shut it down!” Trump wrote in all capital letters on social media. “It’s time Republicans learned how to fight!” “I’m working all my time to make sure that there would not be a shutdown,” McCarthy insisted Tuesday. The hard-line Republicans want McCarthy to drop the deal he made with Biden and stick to earlier promises for spending cuts he made to them in January to win their votes for the speaker’s gavel, citing the nation’s rising debt load.
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