House Republicans are working on a stopgap spending bill that includes border security measures, adding the sweetener to win support from arch-conservatives who are threatening to force a government shutdown.
Members of the House Freedom Caucus are in talks with members of the more moderate Main Street Caucus to include elements of the GOP’s marquee Secure the Border Act into a short-term spending bill to keep the government open past a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
Secure the Border Act includes finishing the Trump border wall, hiring more Border Patrol agents and reducing the Biden administration’s use of parole power to release migrants. “The talks have been productive and we’ll continue to work toward a deal,” they said in a joint statement. Including the Secure the Border Act in the short-term spending bill would be a victory for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of California, who has vowed to keep lawmakers in Washington until they hammer out a deal to avoid a partial government shutdown on Sept. 30, which is now less than two weeks away.
Another must-have for the roughly 40 arch-conservatives is deeper spending cuts than Mr. McCarhty and President Biden agreed to in the deal earlier this year to suspend the government’s $34.1 trillion debt limit. “We gonna have a shutdown, it’s just a matter of how long,” said Rep. Ralph Norman, a Freedom Caucus member from South Carolina.
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