Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged his support for House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy during a closed-door conference lunch on Wednesday, multiple sources tell Axios.
Despite the show of solidarity — "we're all pulling for you," McConnell told him — tensions over Ukraine funding and Congress' $1.7 trillion spending bill remained a clear sticking point.Senate Republicans invited McCarthy and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts to today's Senate GOP lunch to discuss priorities for the 118th Congress, hash out differences over the current omnibus bill and game out how to handle future funding negotiations, the sources said.
Many senators, including Sens. Cynthia Lummis , James Lankford and Susan Collins , expressed their opinion that funding bills must be processed through "regular order" — meaning more time for debate and amendments. "I'm not gonna do this again," Sen. Lindsey Graham told Axios. "I told all our guys that this is the last time I'm gonna vote for train-wreck ... we're gonna go back to regular order.”from any senator who supports the omnibus never came up, three of the sources said., and said the Heritage Foundation as a whole is very opposed to the current omnibus bill.
Roberts criticized GOP lawmakers for voting to spend trillions of dollars while inflation remains the top issue among Republican voters, a source in the room told Axios. Roberts also demanded Republicans come up with a better, more coordinated plan for America's future, arguing it's what the GOP base wants., focusing on China, the border, education and spending as the party's core priorities.
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