The Senate was poised to pass the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement struck by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as early as Thursday night, preparing to send it to Mr. Biden’s desk just days before a first-ever default on the nation’s bills was to take place.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer scrambled to quell opposition from defense hawks, climate-conscious Democrats and hardline Republicans, all while expediting the Senate’s time-consuming legislative procedures with little room for error.
“Any change to this bill that forces us to send it back to the House would be entirely unacceptable,” Mr. Schumer said. “It would almost guarantee default.” Senators from both sides, particularly defense hawks, were also upset with the deal’s provision for a 1% cut across the entire federal government if Congress fails to pass into law its annual budget by Jan. 1. The last time Congress approved a budget on time and did not require a stop-gap funding measure was 1996.
Mr. Schumer also faced rebellion from fellow Democrats over the debt limit deal’s energy provisions. The lone amendment vote offered by a Democrat will be for a provision from Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to strip the measure of its approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The bipartisan debt ceiling agreement would raise the $31.4 trillion debt limit until after the 2024 presidential election. It also would claw back billions of dollars in unspent pandemic relief and cut IRS funding by more than $20 billion over two years, out of an $80 billion funding boost the agency received last year.
“Once their own party’s leadership gives their seal of approval and says either, ‘I’m okay with this,’ or ‘I liked this and I want you to vote for this,’ a lot of members will salute and step up and do it because they’re told to do it, believing that it does what they’re told that it does,” Mr. Lee said. “I think far too many people in the House did that without doing their own due diligence.”
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