House Republicans are considering making deeper spending cuts in their proposed stopgap funding bill to win support from conservative detractors whose votes are critical to the measure’s passage.
The House had been scheduled to vote Tuesday afternoon on a rule to take up the bill, but GOP leaders postponed that vote after members acknowledged they wouldn’t have enough support to get the continuing resolution on the floor in its current form.
Talks could now pivot to hard-line conservatives’ demand to pare back discretionary spending in the CR to the fiscal 2022 annualized rate of $1.47 trillion, or about $119 billion below the $1.59 trillion rate in the current stopgap legislation.
