The fate of a supplemental defense spending bill remains in limbo as the House and Senate return from August recess.
The Senate’s recess ended earlier this week, while the House will come back next Tuesday. Both are returning to the threat of a government shutdown and a broader dispute about defense spending levels and Ukraine aid.The federal government runs out of money on Sept. 30, meaning the House and Senate each have less than 15 in-session days between now and then to find a resolution in order to prevent a shutdown.
McCarthy's mere four-vote majority in the House leaves him with little room for defections within his conference, as evidenced by his caving to demands from hardline conservatives that appropriators write their 12 bills at fiscal 2022 spending levels, below the numbers in the debt limit deal. He has also rejected the notion of the House passing a defense supplemental.
Biden requested $40 billion in emergency supplemental funding, which includes $24 billion in aid to Ukraine, $12 billion in disaster relief, and a couple of billion for border security from Congress last month. McCarthy, meanwhile, has expressed interest in only pairing disaster relief to the short-term CR and instead leveraging Ukraine spending for increased federal efforts to beef up border security. While the idea would likely help push the supplemental bill through the House, it would spell doom for the package in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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