The parties have rarely been able to find consensus around the border-patrol issue.
On Thursday morning, McCarthy told reporters that over the past 24 hours he’d had conversations with some Senate Democrats who are interested in adding border funding to their chamber’s continuing resolution. He noted that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — who has knocked the White House and Senate Democratic leaders for not allocating more money for the border — is among the lawmakers he’s been in touch with.
Sen. John Cornyn said the Senate is working on figuring out a “way to grow the vote to avoid a shutdown, but also to have real teeth on border and immigration reform that is credible and could potentially get done.”Final passage on the Senate’s stopgap resolution, however, will likely be stalled by Sen. Rand Paul , who opposes any new funds for Ukraine and who said on Thursday that he would object to moving the bill forward through a process known as unanimous consent.
Rep. Ralph Norman , who was previously against supporting a stopgap measure, said McCarthy told the conference Thursday morning they needed to pass their own proposal so as not to be “held hostage” by the Senate.Norman said he expected a draft version of a House stopgap proposal could be released as early as Thursday.
Rep. Bob Good , a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said he expects to see a continuing resolution on the House floor Friday that would cut spending to the levels set by the House GOP-approved “Limit Save Grow Act,” which the chamber
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