Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) threatened a short-term continuing resolution on Monday if Senate Democrats do not meet his demands for a large spending bill.
The resolution would be a bipartisan funding bill that would cover the government into early next year and avoid a shutdown but without a full-year spending budget for fiscal 2023.“Both sides know what it would take for the Senate to pass a full-year government funding bill into law. There is no mystery here," McConnell said.
“Our Democratic colleagues have already spent two years massively increasing domestic spending, using party-line reconciliation bills outside the normal appropriations process," McConnell said."So, clearly, our colleagues cannot now demand even more domestic spending than President Biden even requested in exchange for funding the United States military."
Funding the national defense is a basic governing duty for Congress, McConnell said, but unrelated domestic issues cannot be added on.
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