{"id":17118,"date":"2023-08-24T06:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2023-08-24T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:59:53","slug":"mccarthy-on-house-freedom-caucus-funding-concerns-nobody-wants-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=17118","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy on House Freedom Caucus Funding Concerns: Nobody Wants Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday that nobody in Congress wants a government shutdown due to lack of funding, amid opposition to a continuing resolution by the House Freedom Caucus.<br>Earlier this week, the Freedom Caucus released a statement expressing opposition to a potential stopgap funding bill that fails to address government spending. The group also said they would oppose any \u201cblank check\u201d for Ukraine in any supplemental appropriations bill.<br>McCarthy encouraged lawmakers to continue working on appropriations bills and then hold a conference between the House of Representatives and Senate. McCarthy said he would be open to a \u201csmall extension\u201d to allow such work to finish and avoid a government shutdown.<br>Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he and McCarthy agreed to work on a continuing resolution to extend government funding beyond the September 30 deadline to avoid a potential shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20230823\/mccarthy-on-house-freedom-caucus-funding-concerns-nobody-wants-government-shutdown-1112831892.html\">sputnikglobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday that nobody in Congress wants a government shutdown due to lack of funding, amid opposition to a continuing resolution by the House Freedom Caucus.Earlier this week, the Freedom Caucus released a statement expressing opposition to a potential stopgap funding bill that fails to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[21502,1345],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-house","tag-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17120,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions\/17120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}