Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) suggested on Tuesday that the Senate will need to pass a defense supplemental spending package when Congress returns from August recess next month.
Cardin made the comments while speaking to reporters outside the Senate floor after a pro forma session, where one member quickly gavels the chamber in and out. Congress faces the threat of a government shutdown and a broader dispute about defense spending levels when it returns in September.The federal government runs out of money on Sept. 30, and the House and Senate each have only 12 in-session days between now and then to find a resolution in order to prevent a shutdown.
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 and harm their overall ability to allocate adequate resources where needed. Facing a potential mutiny from defense hawks threatening to tank the agreement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to bring a supplemental defense spending bill up for a vote later in the year.
McCarthy's mere four-vote majority in the House leaves him with little room for defections within his conference, though he already has upward of 20 members demanding appropriators write their 12 bills at fiscal 2022 spending levels, below the numbers in the debt limit deal. He has also rejected the notion of the House passing a defense supplemental.
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