![]() ![]() Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, said, adding the House GOP’s decision was “chaos” and “all but guarantees a shutdown.” “It is the law of the land and not even before the ink is dried, they walked away from it,” the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. On Monday night, House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, announced she would move all the bills through her House Appropriations Committee at the lower, fiscal year 2022 level. ![]() The revolt led to a blockade of the House floor for a week and a call to bring spending back down to the previous fiscal year’s levels. What followed, however, was a rebellion by the right flank of the GOP conference who argued the spending agreement wasn’t low enough. ![]() It’s a showdown that was likely always going to come to a head eventually, but the hard-fought debt ceiling package signed into law earlier this month included a rare, early topline spending agreement that was carefully negotiated between the White House and the speaker that dictated how much money the federal government would invest in domestic and defense programs. The House and Senate are careening toward a major spending standoff that could consume Congress this fall, raise the threat of a government shutdown and once again test House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ability to keep his narrow Republican majority behind him. ![]()
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