House leaves town until September with little to show voters
WASHINGTON House Republican leaders have canceled next weeks work session and sent lawmakers home for a six-week summer recess with little to brag about to constituents and voters heading into the final months before the election.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his leadership team had hoped to pass all 12 bills that fund the government before the long August recess, setting up negotiations with the Democratic-led Senate on how to keep the government open ahead of a shutdown deadline on Sept. 30.
But that goal now looks out of reach with the House not returning until Sept. 9, leaving just three weeks to avert a shutdown. The House has already passed five funding bills and had planned to take up four more this week. But leaders managed to push through only one of them focused on the Department of Interior and yanked three others over intraparty disputes and the GOPs minuscule three-seat majority.
They cant pass their own bills. They havent been able to pass their own bills all Congress. This is nothing new, said Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.
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Republicans doing what they do best, nothing.