The White House is drawing its battle lines ahead of a funding fight with House Republicans as Congress begins to return from a weekslong recess.
President Joe Biden inked a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this year to set next year's funding levels and avert a default on the country's debts. Yet the demands of hard-line conservatives, and an insistence on supplemental spending by the president and Democrats, have Washington on a collision course with days left to avoid a government shutdown.
Congress and the Biden administration have 17 session days ahead of a possible government shutdown on Sept. 30. Eyes will be especially trained on the House, where a thin GOP majority will be forced to navigate the demands of its right flank. The Senate resumed business on Tuesday following the August recess, but the House will not be back until next week.
"This is something that Congress can do," she said in late August."They can prevent a government shutdown. They need to prevent a government shutdown. What I just listed out are critical, critical programs that Americans across the country — American families across the country certainly need." House Republicans are focusing not just on where money is spent but where it isn't. Some are asking for spending cuts of up to $200 billion to match fiscal 2022 levels, and many are increasingly cautious about how much money goes to Ukraine.
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