has happened before<\/a> \u2014 in 1991. Congress enacted a stopgap measure that extended one spending bill, the Foreign Operations bill, to March 31, 1992, while extending the others one month to Nov. 14 because of a conflict over funding for Israel.<\/p>\nHowever, the concept is controversial within the House GOP conference, as some fear that the approach would set up a series of shutdown threats and never-ending appropriations battles.<\/p>\n
State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said while he may change his mind after seeing details of the plan, he worries it would increase the House\u2019s chances of getting jammed by the Senate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s potentially a little bit riskier,\u201d Diaz-Balart said. \u201cIt potentially weakens our hand to do it twice as opposed to have the topline number, have a date certain, let us negotiate the bills and then we\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many House Republicans have said they want to avoid a Christmastime omnibus from the Senate.<\/p>\n
Even in the laddered scenario, having some funding expire in December would not be a \u201cviable option,\u201d Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get through the holidays,\u201d said Ogles, a member of the Freedom Caucus. \u201cAnd again, you just look at historically what happens if you don\u2019t, you get an omni. That\u2019s $2 trillion the American people can\u2019t afford from the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hern and Ogles said they were among those arguing any CR shouldn\u2019t be \u201cclean,\u201d that it should include conservative policy wins. Ogles said that could include border security measures or a commission to tackle long-term U.S. debt problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be a ladder, but there\u2019s got to be something that takes you beyond Christmas,\u201d Ogles said. \u201cAnd there has to be something that you can take back home like border security, like that [debt] commission, that you can say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re serious about fixing the problems of America.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
This is setting the chamber up on a collision course with Senate Democrats, who want to wrap up the process before the start of the new year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re already almost a month into the current fiscal year,\u201d Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who chairs the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, said last week. \u201cWe should be able to get our house in order and pass a budget for the year we\u2019re in before more than three months have passed.\u201d<\/p>\n
But wrapping up full-year appropriations by December would be a heavy lift for a House and Senate that have been on a collision course over spending levels for months.<\/p>\n
That time crunch has led to some discussion of the Senate taking up its remaining nine bills in a single package. \u201cIt\u2019s not my preference, but we may end up that way,\u201d said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the chamber\u2019s top Republican appropriator.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear how much support a nine-bill package would have, particularly among conservatives who have pushed to return to \u201cregular order\u201d by taking up bills individually.<\/p>\n
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., another appropriator, said he was \u201cdubious\u201d of the idea, which he called \u201conly marginally better than a poke in the eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supplemental divide<\/h3>\n
Another point of contention is the $106 billion in supplemental funding that President Joe Biden has requested for foreign military and economic assistance as well as border management and security, along with another $56 billion he is seeking for domestic purposes like child care and broadband subsidies and disaster relief.<\/p>\n
While House Republicans passed a $14.3 billion military aid package for Israel last week, that bill includes clawbacks in IRS funding that Democrats do not support. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has said the Senate will not take it up.<\/p>\n
Johnson on Tuesday did not rule out including Israel funding in a stopgap bill Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to tell you what the CR will entail yet, but I will tell you that we are urging consistently and very appropriately to get Israel done,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an urgent necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senate Republican leaders prefer to add Biden\u2019s Ukraine funding request to the mix as well, but some GOP senators are demanding tough U.S. border restrictions in exchange. In floor remarks, Schumer blasted the Senate GOP proposal as a \u201ctotal nonstarter\u201d but added that bipartisan negotiations were possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be clear, I\u2019d like to bridge the divide and see commonsense border policies done, and the president would like to get something done, as his supplemental proposal shows,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., said he has begun talks with some Republicans and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona in an attempt to find a bipartisan compromise on border policies that could be part of a supplemental bill with Ukraine funding. But he stressed that any bipartisan approach on immigration would not be as sweeping as many Republicans want to see.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t build an entire automobile between now and when we need to pass the supplemental,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cWe can make some common-sense changes to make things better on the border. We can\u2019t do a top-to-bottom rewrite of asylum laws, border barrier law, parole law and detainment law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cole said he prefers a clean extension of government spending, setting up future negotiations with the Senate on fiscal 2024 appropriations and the supplemental funding requests Biden has put forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also say you don\u2019t link any of the supplemental expenditures like Israel or Ukraine or disaster relief, you just keep the government funded, sit down and negotiate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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(Ellyn Ferguson and Laura Weiss contributed to this report.)<\/em> <\/p>\n___<\/p>\n
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