About $6.1 billion was included in the Senate’s version of a bipartisan stopgap bill, a down payment on President Joe Biden’s $20 billion request. “Democrats are going to criticize us for the shutdown,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told HuffPost after the vote. said he had suggested a “clean” stopgap bill. The Senate’s efforts to pass a stopgap bill have been bipartisan, but they are hampered by time. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), has not signaled he would take up a Senate bill to prevent a looming.

Source: Huffington Post September 30, 2023 03:22 UTC