Boehner Confident Stopgap Will Pass
The Hill reports:
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday he is “confident” the House will pass a new three-week funding bill cutting $6 billion in spending, despite swelling opposition from conservatives demanding deeper savings.
"I understand that some of our members want to do more, but what in this bill do they disagree with? Nothing. Nothing,” Boehner said after the House GOP’s weekly closed-door conference meeting. “And so … I’m confident this bill will pass."
At least a dozen Republicans, including Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and former GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), have said they will oppose the continuing resolution (CR) when it comes to the floor Tuesday afternoon.
In the absence of a deal on a longer-term spending measure, another temporary one is needed to avert a government shutdown after Friday, when the current stopgap expires.
Just two lawmakers stood to oppose the continuing resolution during the conference meeting, according to attendees of the hour-long session, but the number of Republican “no” votes on the latest stopgap is expected to be higher than on the measure passed earlier this month.
That spending bill passed 335-91.
Five Senate Republicans have also said they would oppose the House’s latest CR.
“While attempts at new spending reductions are commendable, we simply can no longer afford to nickel-and-dime our way out of the dangerous debt America has amassed,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a Tea Party-backed freshman, wrote at conservative blog RedState.
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