U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will try to restart his stalled Republican spending agenda on Thursday, with a procedural vote on a fiscal 2024 defense appropriations bill that Republicans have already twice failed to advance.
A vote to open debate on the $886 billion measure is expected in the House of Representatives, a day after McCarthy's fractious majority met in aaimed at finding common ground on legislation to avert a government shutdown in barely a week and half.
McCarthy said Republicans were also "very close" on a short-term funding measure known as a continuing resolution, or CR, and predicted that he would be able to advance other longer-term spending legislation. On Tuesday McCarthy had to pull a procedural vote on a proposed 30-day CR. Then a vote to open floor debate on the defense appropriations bill failed. The defense bill had already been delayed earlier in the month.
But McCarthy told reporters on Wednesday that he had been able to win support from two of the five hardliners who had joined Democrats to oppose the defense appropriations bill on Tuesday. With a narrow 221-212 majority, McCarthy can afford to lose no more than four votes on measures opposed by Democrats.
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