House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made border security a central feature of his stopgap funding bill to keep the government open and is daring conservative holdouts to vote against it.
has made border security a central feature of his stopgap funding bill to keep the government open and is daring conservative holdouts to vote against it.
The stopgap bill, titled the Spending Reduction and Border Security Act, cruised through the House Rules Committee on Friday morning and headed to the House floor. The steep cuts and border policies make the measure a nonstarter in the Democrat-run Senate, where Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has warned Mr.The speaker said that the Senate has “not done anything” to fund the government compared to the House, which has managed to pass four spending bills — three of which were advanced Thursday night.Meanwhile, Mr. Schumer, New York Democrat, has been moving a bipartisan bill through his chamber.
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