“The bipartisan government-funding bill that Senators Shelby and Leahy have finished negotiating does exactly the opposite of what the Biden administration first proposed. This bill provides a substantial real-dollar increase to the defense baseline . . . and a substantial real-dollar cut to the non-defense, non-veterans baseline,” he said Tuesday, bragging about the concessions he’s been able to secure.
But critics say McConnell is making a giant mistake by going with the left. They say he should instead pass a continuing resolution and wait until Republicans officially retake the House next month to push through any spending.
Critics like Heritage Foundation’s vice president of government relations, Eric Teetsel.
“No defeated, outgoing House majority has ever had the audacity to pass an omnibus appropriations bill during a lame-duck session, and they shouldn’t start now. The best option is to pass a clean, short-term continuing resolution that funds the government through early next year,” Teetsel said in a statement earlier this month.
“This allows the newly elected Congress to craft spending in a way that reflects the priorities of the American people, gets spending under control, and reins in inflation,” he added.
But McConnell apparently disagrees, and nobody knows why.
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