Congress is at a crossroads days before a disruptive federal shutdown.
dug in Thursday, vowing he will not take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running despite House Republicans' struggle to unite around an alternative.
Lawmakers were already weary from days of late-night negotiating. The strain was evident at McCarthy's closed-door meeting with Republicans Thursday morning, which was marked by a tense exchange between the speaker and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., according to those in the room. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Congress and the White House had already worked out top-line spending levels for next year with that allowed the government to continue borrowing to pay its bills. But McCarthy was deviating from that deal and courting a shutdown by catering to Republicans who say it didn't do enough to cut spending, he said.
"Well, if you won’t do any of that, it’s hard to govern," McCarthy said, before adding, “I don’t give up on any single one of them, and I try to find a place that we can bring it all together.”also sought to apply more pressure on McCarthy, urging him to compromise with Democrats even though that could threaten his job.
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