More than two dozen members of the House Freedom Caucus are demanding Speaker Kevin McCarthy answer questions about the path forward on government funding while also publicly denouncing a bipartisan Senate stopgap proposal.
“No Member of Congress can or should be expected to consider supporting a stop-gap funding measure without answers to these reasonable questions,” the letter, signed by 27 members of the conservative caucus, reads.
The letter is just the latest data point for how hard it will prove for McCarthy to round up sufficient GOP support for any short-term spending measure. He can lose but a handful of votes without the support of Democrats.
McCarthy has indicated he’ll consider a CR with additional border security funding and policy changes. However, a bloc of far-right Republicans are dug in against any sort of government funding patch.
