The House is back to work today, and lawmakers have just 11 legislative days to whittle away at a big stack of measures, including spending legislation, defense policy and a farm bill. House Republicans are on a collision course with the Senate as appropriators in both chambers advance conflicting versions of a sweeping government funding package, which must become law by Sept. 30 to prevent a shutdown (NBC News).
A group of 21 hard-line conservative House Republicans warned Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in writing on Monday that they’ll vote against spending bills they think contain insufficient overall cuts and they urged him to publicly reject supplemental funding for Ukraine (The Hill).
