{"id":579180,"date":"2023-06-18T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/senate-democrats-ready-for-spending-fight-with-house-gop\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:19:08","slug":"senate-democrats-ready-for-spending-fight-with-house-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/senate-democrats-ready-for-spending-fight-with-house-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"#Senate Democrats ready for spending fight with House GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/durbinrichard_030123ag01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Democrats are gearing up for a spending fight with House Republicans as negotiators in the upper chamber prepare to mark up government funding bills in the days ahead.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senate negotiators are expected to unveil funding legislation in the coming days, with plans to begin considering proposals over the next week as the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriations season starts to heat up.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt will be very difficult,\u201d Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who is also an appropriator, told The Hill of challenges Congress will face in averting a shutdown this year. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to agree to our agreements and stick with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House GOP negotiators dialed up the temperature earlier this week when they announced they would mark up their fiscal 2024 spending plans to levels lower than the budget caps set as part of a deal struck between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>The matter was the subject of intense debate in a House hearing earlier this week, when Republicans defended the strategy as a means to further curb spending and tackle the nation\u2019s deficit, while Democrats accused them of reneging on the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think any of us would have made a deal if we thought your [2022] number was the deal? What kind of deal is that? What kind of respect for yourselves is that?\u201d said Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.), the top Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Government, at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House and House GOP leadership agreed to spending caps for fiscal 2024 as part of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). Congress passed the bill earlier this month to raise the debt limit before an early June deadline to prevent a national default, along with several proposals aimed at cutting spending to buy necessary GOP support.<\/p>\n<p>However, McCarthy has faced pressure from hard-line conservatives in the weeks since the bill\u2019s passage, with the right flank flexing its muscles in the lower chamber to push leadership to seek more cuts through the annual appropriations process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Some Republican negotiations have expressed confidence that the conference will back the partisan bills now that leaders have affirmed they\u2019ll mark up their legislation to fiscal 2022 levels, but there is uncertainty as to whether the party will stick together through the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hard-line conservatives are already making threats to thwart their party\u2019s spending bills, raising the risks of a potential government shutdown later this year. Some have also accused leaders of resorting to budgetary \u201cgimmicks\u201d because GOP appropriators have proposed clawing back and repurposing some funding previously allocated for Democratic priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need true 2022 levels, and then we ought to be utilizing targeted cuts and rescissions to go beneath that, not pretend 2022 levels plussed up with rescissions,\u201d Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>At the same time, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has signaled the upper chamber will take a much different path, saying earlier this week, \u201cIn the Senate, we\u2019re going to follow the agreement that everybody agreed to as passed and signed into law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several appropriation subcommittee chairs and ranking members said Thursday they weren\u2019t yet made aware of what their allocations would be for their various spending bills. But some are expecting an aggressive markup schedule this year, with hopes of passing funding bills out of committee after having not done so last year.<\/p>\n<p>The House got a head start on their fiscal 2024 bills this year, with the full committee sending the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bill and the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food, and Drug Administration bill, to the House earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Congress technically is supposed to finish passing its dozen annual appropriations bills by a late September deadline \u2014 when fiscal 2024 begins. But it\u2019s seldom that lawmakers finish all of the bills on time, instead opting to pass a temporary stopgap bill to keep the government funded at current levels to buy time for a deal without the threat of a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>However, lawmakers on both sides are worried about added pressure from the FRA, which includes a penalty of automatic across-the-board cuts if lawmakers don\u2019t put a bow on their annual spending bills by the end of the calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>The different starting points both chambers are taking in the appropriations process underline the challenges Congress will face in trying to reach a bipartisan compromise later this year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In recent days, even some Senate Republicans have withheld support for the House GOP plan, instead opting to wait and see what the conference can produce in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on whether he supported the direction, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said he \u201csupported the deal that passed which was, you know, obviously different spending levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll wait and see what the Senate produces in terms of a package. House is going to do their thing,\u201d he told The Hill on Thursday. \u201cSo I don\u2019t have a lot of control over that, but hopefully we can control what we do here in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In remarks to The Hill on Thursday, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who serves on the House Appropriations Committee, expressed confidence that the GOP-led panel will be able to pass its bills in the weeks ahead. But whether House Republicans will be able to get their partisan plans across the floor without Democratic support is another question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[House Appropriations Chairwoman] Kay Granger (R-Texas) has demonstrated she has control of her committee, and she\u2019ll produce the bills probably by the August break,\u201d Cole said. \u201cThen the leadership needs to see can they produce these bills, can they get them across the floor?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we\u2019re in a position to sit down and have a genuine negotiation,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p><em>Mike Lillis and Laura Kelly contributed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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