Top Democratic appropriators says GOP 'guaranteeing a shutdown'
The senior Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee is warning that government shutdowns are all but inevitable if the newly empowered Republicans insist on dropping federal funding back to 2022 levels, as some conservatives have demanded.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) emphasized that any spending bills will need the support of Democrats in both Congress and the White House, and vowed that they’d never back proposals that revert funding to last year’s levels.
“You cannot pass appropriations bills without them being both bipartisan and bicameral. The president will not sign,” she said during a press briefing in the Capitol on Tuesday. “So I think this notion that you can deal with 2022 levels — that appears to have been a part of this secret deal — you then may be looking at guaranteeing a shutdown.”
The “secret deal” was a reference to the concessions made by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to his conservative detractors in order to win their support for his Speakership bid — a process that handed him the gavel in the early hours of Saturday morning on the 15th ballot.
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