House G.O.P. Leaders Press Ahead With Budget Vote as Defectors Dig In
Republicans scheduled a vote for Wednesday evening, but they were still at least a dozen votes short of a majority for their fiscal blueprint.
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Republicans scheduled a vote for Wednesday evening, but they were still at least a dozen votes short of a majority for their fiscal blueprint.
Hard-line conservatives concerned about the deficit are among President Trump’s most stalwart supporters in Congress. But they say they cannot in good conscience back the budget plan he has endorsed.
Anti-spending conservatives in the House are lining up to oppose the Senate’s budget blueprint because it would add too much to the nation’s debt, threatening President Trump’s agenda.
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
Senate Republicans are hoping to ice Democrats out from deciding the fate of President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, a move that Democrats could eventually use against them.
Republicans pushed through their blueprint for tax and spending cuts after Democrats forced them to cast politically painful votes into the early morning on every element of President Trump’s agenda.
With Republicans driving toward a vote on their tax and spending cut blueprint, Democrats plan to force them to cast politically painful votes on every element of President Trump’s agenda.
Some Republicans are uneasy that their party is pursuing a tactic that could weaken the filibuster and backfire in the future.
The delay in disbursement has forced the news organization, which relies almost exclusively on congressional funding, to furlough some of its staff and cut parts of its programming.
Senate G.O.P. leaders are planning to use what is known as the “nuclear option” to steer around the Senate’s in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free.