Conservatives fear being steamrolled by Dems on funding bill

[DonViejo]

BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE - 03/20/18 01:25 PM EDT

Republican hardliners in the House left a conference meeting Tuesday morning worried that the massive spending package being negotiated by GOP leaders will fail to deliver conservative wins.

While appropriators are still working out key details of the legislation, which has not yet been released, top conservatives argued leadership isn’t negotiating hard enough to ensure that they aren’t steamrolled by the Senate.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) touted the measure’s sharp increase in defense spending, telling his members they are delivering on their promise to strengthen the military. The package will also contain a spending increase for domestic programs, something Democrats insisted upon.

House Freedom Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said an outcome where Democrats receive more funding for their priorities under a Republican majority than they did under the Obama administration will be “a very difficult thing to message in November.”

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[annabanana]

1. What I want stuck into that bill is protection for the Special Counsel investigation!. . . . n/t