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With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House.

With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House.

The Senate stopgap bill, which would keep the government funded until November 17, includes $6.2 billion in Ukraine aid and $6 billion for natural disasters.

The release of the Senate bill, which was negotiated on a bipartisan basis, sets up a stark contrast – and a showdown – with the House, where the Republican majority faces deep divisions and the demands of hardline conservatives have been highly influential in driving the agenda as a shutdown looms.

  • Unaware7013@kbin.social
    19·
    9 months ago

    The other option would be to cut a deal with the democrats to support him staying speaker just to give a massive middle finger to the traitor caucus.

    But that would require a spine and a modicum of political wherewithal. McCarthy has neither, so its going to be interesting to see how this turns out.

    • slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Nah, McCarthy is fucked either way because cutting a deal with Democrats will mean getting primaried when he’s up for reelection.

      • roy_mustang76@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        That’s likely to happen anyway because he put himself in a no win scenario. The hard liners’ demands can’t make it through the Senate, because even the Senate Republicans aren’t onboard with that shit.

        So it’s cut a deal with the Democrats to keep the government open, and get primaried, or shutdown the government and weaken the party in 2024… And get primaried because his speakership was disastrous.

        Gaetz’s imaginary door #3 doesn’t exist, and McCarthy knows it.