UnionLeader Article RatingRepublican feud over 'root canal' spending cuts raises US gov't shutdown risk
Aug 21, 2023 View Original Article
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| "With Republicans also seeking higher spending on defense, veterans benefits and border security, analysts say the hardline target would mean cuts of up to 25" | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Hardliners view the 2024 fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1 as a test of Republican resolve to reduce the federal debt and move on to reform social programs including Medicare and Social Security." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "We want to work with Kevin, and we think that we can." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "It's not something that the members of the Freedom Caucus generally wish for, said Representative Scott Perry, who chairs the group of roughly three dozen conservatives." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "We're trying to focus and prioritize, said Rep. David Joyce, a member of the appropriations committee who heads the 42-member centrist Republican Governance Group." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "McCarthy acknowledged last week they may have to resort to a stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep federal agencies open." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The reductions are so deep, said Representative Don Bacon, a centrist Republican from Nebraska." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "McCarthy could face the prospect of having to resort to a CR that requires bipartisan support to pass, neutralizing the hardliners, analysts said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "I wouldn't go that far, Perry said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "With Democrats opposed to hardline proposals, McCarthy can afford to lose no more than four Republican votes if he hopes to pass all 12 appropriations bills before funding expires on Sept. 30." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The more appropriations bills we can get across the finish line, the more we'll have the leverage we need to negotiate a good deal with the Senate, said Representative Dusty Johnson, who chairs the Main Street Caucus, whose members describe themselves as pragmatic conservatives." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "A shutdown would disrupt the lives of Americans barely a year before the 2024 election, when Republicans must defend 18 House seats in districts that Biden won in 2020." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "I don't fault any individual member for raising concerns and wanting to make sure that the bill is right for them and for their district, said Representative Ben Cline, who belongs to the Freedom Caucus, the conservative Republican Study Committee and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Would the House Freedom Caucus end McCarthy's reign over a CR?" | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The result is a major headache for centrist Republicans from swing districts that Biden won in 2020 and others with constituents in the firing line of hardline spending targets." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "That could endanger McCarthy's speakership under a deal he struck allowing a single lawmaker to move for his dismissal." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Some House Republicans say the challenges are similar to disagreements McCarthy has overcome on other major legislation, including an April Republican debt ceiling bill that cemented his negotiating position in talks with Biden." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Some House Republicans say the challenges are similar to disagreements McCarthy has overcome on other major legislation, including an April Republican debt ceiling bill that cemented his negotiating position in talks with Biden." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "That option could be complicated by hardline demands that it include some of former President Donald Trump's border policies, which Democrats reject." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Centrists, who call themselves governing Republicans, say their hardline colleagues are ignoring the fact that their priorities are rejected by Democrats who control the Senate and White House, and that spending will wind up near the level agreed by McCarthy and Biden anyway." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Centrists, who call themselves governing Republicans, say their hardline colleagues are ignoring the fact that their priorities are rejected by Democrats who control the Senate and White House, and that spending will wind up near the level agreed by McCarthy and Biden anyway." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in Congress, said last week that Republicans will be to blame for any new shutdown if the House decides to go in a partisan direction." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus are pushing to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level of $1.47 trillion, $120 billion less than President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to in their May debt ceiling compromise." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus are pushing to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level of $1.47 trillion, $120 billion less than President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to in their May debt ceiling compromise." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
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52% : With Republicans also seeking higher spending on defense, veterans benefits and border security, analysts say the hardline target would mean cuts of up to 25% in areas such as agriculture, infrastructure, science, commerce, water and energy, and health care.51% :Hardliners view the 2024 fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1 as a test of Republican resolve to reduce the federal debt and move on to reform social programs including Medicare and Social Security.
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