House Republicans release short-term bill to avert government shutdown until Oct. 31
House Republicans release short-term bill to avert government shutdown until Oct. 31
The legislation, brokered between GOP factions, would include spending cuts and a conservative border measure, making it unlikely to pass the Democratic-led Senate.
Key factions of the House Republican conference reached a tentative agreement Sunday to keep the government funded temporarily and avert a shutdown currently scheduled for the end of this month, pairing it with a conservative border security measure, multiple GOP sources with knowledge told NBC News.
House Republicans released a bill after a tentative agreement between the far-right Freedom Caucus and the center-right Main Street Caucus, the sources said. The deal, which keeps the government funded through Oct. 31 but includes cuts to domestic spending, is expected to pave the way to pass a defense spending bill this week that has been tied up in the standoff between Republican leadership and the far-right.
If the legislation passes the House, it would resolve one internal problem for Speaker Kevin McCarthy while creating a new one. The controversial immigration provisions and reduced spending levels make it all but guaranteed to die in the Democratic-led Senate, meaning it could do more to hasten a shutdown at the end of September than prevent one.
SEC. 2010. OPERATION STONEGARDEN.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT .—There is established in the Department a program to be known as ‘Operation Stonegarden’, under which the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, shall make grants to eligible law enforcement agencies, through State administrative agencies, to enhance border security in accordance with this section.Well that's escalating fast. This would allow local police to "enhance" border security, which is... Ungood. So this is obviously going to die in the Senate.
To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a law enforcement agency shall
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a State or territory with a maritime border.Ah shit, we're going to give a ton of money to Florida's State army. Boo!
Man, Division C of this just sucks giant donkey balls. Also, some of it doesn't even make math sense. Use the budget allocation pre-2021 for 900 miles of solid wall? There's not enough dinero amigo! And yes, even with the oh so clever item (3):
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall waive all legal requirements necessary to ensure the expeditious design, testing, construction, installation, deployment, integration, operation, and maintenance of the physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, and technology under this section
Just ignoring all the construction regulations isn't going to save that much money on nine followed by two zeros of miles of solid wall in a lot of the land that Congress is requiring. It's just a non-doable thing, even if we were building the wall out of papier-mâché. Also the whole "oh don't worry about documenting anything during the construction" that seemed to work "oh so well" with the PPP loans. Let's clearly do that again.
Oh also of note is the lack of any guidance on E-Verify. Clearly we cannot be going after "innocent" employers who "forgot" to check if the person was a legal immigrant or not.
All I have to say is that whole thing is a BIG ASK for just kicking the can to October.
SEC . 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2023
Just FYI for anyone who doesn't know. The US fiscal year is from Oct. 1 to Sep. 30. So FY23 ends on September 30th and that's literally the first thing this bill covers. "We're just going with it until the end of FY23."
All I'm going to say is that I'm putting a shiny quarter on this being told to pound sand by the Senate. Just a hunch.
The government could be funded for the next century if they wanted to do it. They would rather kick the can down the road little by little.
It lets them scream and cry into a camera.
Favorite part of their job. American politics is just acting for ugly people.
Hostage taker negotiates' favourable terms for himself - with himself.
House Republicans sounds like a 90s techno band
If only they were as cool as the 90s though.
Amazing, how did two relatively right wing parties take this long to agree on something?
They didn’t. It took this long for one of the parties to agree on something…
lol what are you on about? if one group agrees with the other, then they’re agreeing on something.
Also, how about those downvotes right? Two party chuds sipping the copium