Moderate Republicans are working with Democrats on a rarely used procedure to shorten a near-certain US government shutdown and protect themselves from the anticipated political backlash from a federal funding lapse.
The plan puts these vulnerable Republicans, including several from Democratic-friendly districts in New York, firmly at odds with hardliners in their own party. It could, however, limit a disruptive shutdown that threatens to stretch for a month or more to a little more than a week.
The House, which returns on Tuesday after a weekend break extended to mark Yom Kippur, has just five days before the shutdown deadline. “Many of us are not in a position to support shutting the government down,” Molinaro told reporters last week, as he sought to leverage the threat of a discharge petition to get conservatives to back a stopgap spending bill that included GOP border security demands.
The discharge petition can be used to force a vote on that within nine “legislative days” when Congress is actually in session. Russ Vought, a former Donald Trump budget director who is advising hardliners, said in a social media post that McCarthy could keep the House in recess to prevent the magic nine legislative days from being reached. But a break for lawmakers would be hard to defend while federal employees go without pay and government services are disrupted.
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