House Scrambles to Catch Up to Senate on Budget Framework
House Republicans are racing to resolve intra-party divisions and release a budget resolution early this week, as their Senate colleagues prepare to mark up their own framework.
GOP lawmakers worked over the weekend — and at the Super Bowl — to try to craft a budget resolution agreeable to leadership and conservative hard-liners. Members from the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus have pressed for deeper spending cuts than what leadership originally proposed, causing lawmakers to scramble to find a solution.
However, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said yesterday the resolution isn’t ...