“We are talking about continuing-resolution levels that almost all of us just voted against,” said Representative Ken Buck, Republican of Colorado, predicting that many Republicans would balk at backing a stopgap measure if the funding remained steady. Representative Chip Roy, an ultraconservative Republican from Texas, warned last week on X, formerly Twitter, that “hiding behind impeachment to screw America with status quo massive funding” would “not end well.” He also ridiculed “hand-wringing” over the potential consequences of a shutdown and urged Republicans to prepare for a showdown when they returned to Capitol Hill. McCarthy’s argument that a shutdown would stall Republican investigations and a potential impeachment of Mr. McCarthy can afford few defections if he hopes to pass spending bills with only Republican support, and the archconservatives are digging in while dismissing the political and economic repercussions of a government shutdown. McCarthy to pull funding measures from the floor just before the August recess. That internal divide and differences over abortion policy and other issues forced Mr.

McCarthy is that a significant segment of the hard-right members in his ranks are insisting on conditions on the temporary funding measure that could never clear the Democratic-led Senate even as they call for deeper spending cuts in the full-year spending measures that many of their fellow House Republicans will not support. “Honestly, it’s a pretty big mess,” Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, recently told an audience in his home state. House Democrats want nothing to do with any of the Republican bills, which have also been loaded with conservative social policy riders that have little chance of enactment. At the same time, senators of both parties want the stopgap bill to include billions of dollars in new assistance to Ukraine, a demand that House Republicans are resisting. Members of the House’s far-right Freedom Caucus are pledging to oppose even a temporary measure if it does not cut funding substantially or include new border controls and restrictions on prosecuting former President Donald J. But that usually routine legislation is facing major obstacles in the Republican-led House, making its path to President Biden’s desk unusually fraught. Given the rapidly approaching deadline, leaders of both the House and the Senate agree that a temporary stopgap funding measure will be needed to avert a government shutdown beginning Oct. 30, Congress has not cleared any of its 12 annual appropriations bills, though there has been more progress than in the recent past. With less than three weeks remaining before government funding runs out on Sept. Congress is poised this week to dive into an epic fight over spending, as the Senate for the first time in years puts appropriations bills on the floor for debate and Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to find his way out of a complex funding tangle that could ultimately threaten his leadership post.

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