The House-passed fiscal rescue package now faces a key vote in the Senate
The House passed a fiscal rescue package Tuesday night intended to prevent a government shutdown at month’s end and a U.S. debt default in the coming weeks — if only Senate Republicans would go along.
Kennedy and a few other GOP senators are likely to vote in favor of the bill. But the funding bundle needs support from at least 10 Republicans to make it through the upper chamber, and it’s expected to fall far short. “This has always been bipartisan," Pelosi said. "Not everybody on either side of the aisle would vote for it, but nobody would let it fail.”
Of those, Kennedy is the only GOP senator who has said definitely that he will back the short-term spending bill even if it includes debt limit suspension, citing the inclusion of disaster aid for his state. Shelby has said he would oppose the package, while Collins and Murkowski have not said how they will vote. Sen. Bill Cassidy, another Republican from the hurricane-battered state of Louisiana, is also undecided.
Instead, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday night that he plans to call for a vote later in the week on a bill to fully fund the Iron Dome system, which Israel views as critical for its protection from rocket attacks. "I was for that. I’m still for it, we ought to do it," he said. A number of moderate members tweeted their displeasure with leadership’s decision to punt the money to a year-end appropriations package, which isn’t guaranteed to materialize.
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