McCarthy Kills Bipartisan Senate Bill to Avert Shutdown
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The stopgap measure, which included continued aid for Ukraine, would have faced stiff opposition from hardliners in the House.

Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival.

Senators, having apparently lost faith in McCarthy’s ability to stave off a shutdown, negotiated a bill late Tuesday night that funds the government until Nov. 17 and includes $12 billion in aid and disaster relief for Ukraine. It’s expected to be voted on by the end of the week before being sent over to the House, and is intended to buy lawmakers more time to hash out a longer-term deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.

But, according to Punchbowl News, McCarthy said in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t take up a bill that includes Ukraine funding but no border security measures. “I don’t see the support in the House,” he reportedly said.

Aid for Ukraine has been one of several sticking points for ultraconservative hardliners in the House who have repeatedly sabotaged McCarthy’s efforts to get spending bills passed.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
    1333·
    1 year ago

    Remember: him and (especially) the far-right goons want a shutdown. They know Republicans will rightly be blamed in the short-term. But they’re willing to accept that, and even worse: they’re willing to damage the entire country and weaken our National Security to hurt the economy while Biden is president. That’s all this is! Don’t let anyone ever forget…

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      33·
      1 year ago

      The problem isn’t forgetting, the problem is making them go against the programming they’re being fed by whatever propaganda outlet they choose to consume. Those institutions just launder shit ideas and convince the viewer that they are correct and everyone else is wrong. We’d just be “reminding” them of something that “isn’t true.”

      I strongly believe our biggest problem in the US is the conflict between the need for a free press and the press abusing the absolute shit out of that, being literal propaganda outlets.

      • Okashiikessen@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        I strongly believed for years that the benefit of a non-state-affiliated press was that it was free of state control, thus less likely to become propaganda outlets.

        Don’t worry, I realized the flaw in that logic over ten years ago.

        Money. Money was the flaw.

        Fuck capitalism.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.world
      182·
      1 year ago

      Most Americans think that literally every decision in DC gets filtered through POTUS, because they don’t have a viable concept of what the function of government is or even how the government is structured. A shutdown will be seen by the majority of the population as “Biden’s doing”.

    • ZK686@lemmy.world
      227·
      1 year ago

      You sound just like Reddit, where EVERYTHING and ANYTHING was the Republican’s fault. Republicans want funds to go towards a border crisis that Democrats want to ignore. Democrats want to send BILLIONS to Ukraine, but literally turn a blind eye to what’s happening in our own country. Ever since Biden took over, the Democrats have chosen to ignore what’s been going on with our immigration issues, literally, they don’t want to talk about it or do anything because they don’t want to give even the slightest indication that Trump and Republicans have been right all along about having border issues. If we can send billions to another country, we sure as hell can send money to help with our borders.

      • deadtom@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        Living on the border a stones throw from Mexico myself… what border crisis? Care to articulate and provide some citations to back it up?

      • andxz@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        You say that, and there’s no denying there are border related problems, but if you think the solution lies within the party that supports someone who thinks a mote filled with hungry alligators is a viable one you might want to rethink a thing or two.

        Just a humble suggestion.

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Not everything is the Republican’s fault. Sometimes the Democrats go along with stupid Republican ideas. There is a crisis at the border, but Republicans are offering solutions that will be far less effective at addressing the issue than what Progressives want. There is some blame on the Democrats for not explaining what would solve the crisis, but the Republican solutions aren’t going to address the problem effectively, and lead to a ton of death and suffering.