Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on Monday that Congress was unlikely to prevent a government shutdown as the deadline nears.
The federal government runs out of funding on Sept. 30, meaning the House and Senate each have less than 10 in-session days between now and then to find a resolution in order to prevent a shutdown. Further complicating matters, House and Senate appropriators have spent months marking up government funding bills at different spending levels.
“They believe that in a shutdown, the press will eagerly blame it on Republicans, and I think Biden and Schumer think they get a political benefit from it,” he added. “So I think their incentive is to try and force a shutdown. By the way, Schumer did that previously as well, and I think we're likely headed to the same thing.”
Under the united leadership of Schumer, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray , and ranking member Susan Collins , the Senate has been advancing the 12 annual appropriations bills using spending levels agreed upon as part of Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's deal to avert a debt default in May.
Senators across the ideological spectrum were furious over the defense caps in the deal, which would put the Pentagon out of step with the rate of inflation. Facing a potential mutiny from defense hawks threatening to tank the agreement, Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to bring a supplemental defense spending bill up for a vote later in the year.
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