House GOP leaders ditch government funding plan amid infighting

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Republican leaders have ditched their initial plan for a stopgap spending bill amid GOP infighting over how best to avoid a government shutdown, which will take place Friday at midnight if Congress doesn’t intervene.

The original plan was to send a bill to the Senate that links a full year of funding for defense with a short-term patch that funds the rest of the government through Jan. 19. The continuing resolution (CR) was also supposed to include funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program and a massive $81 billion disaster aid package.

But some conservatives balked over the emergency aid because it is not offset by spending cuts elsewhere, while the boost for the military was likely dead on arrival in the Senate.

A House Rules Committee meeting, which was supposed to prepare the CR for a floor vote on Wednesday, was forced to recess Tuesday evening so that the panel could “continue to talk with members to determine the best path forward,” according to a committee aide.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/365776-house-gop-leaders-ditch-government-funding-plan-amid-infighting?rnd=1513784933

Shutdown here we come.

[Irish_Dem]

1. If Americans are going to have a lower standard of living, military spending should be cut.

Other countries with much higher standards of living and cradle to grave benefits are going to have to step up
to the plate.

[Horizens]

2. Cutzpah Plus

"But some conservatives balked over the emergency aid because it is not offset by spending cuts elsewhere,..."

MINUTES after adding 1.5 trillion to the debt, they're once again deficit hawks.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Demand budget cuts to offset disaster aid but allow massive tax cuts to swell deficit?

There is the Republican Party in a NUT shell.