Spending Bill Hits Hurdle As Pelosi Demands Changes, Conservatives Peel Off
Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike threw a wrench Wednesday into congressional leaders’ hopes of quickly passing a newly struck budget deal, with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi demanding that certain provisions be stripped.
The California Democrat had been coy for days over whether she would support the plan being hammered out in closed-door negotiations to fund the government past a Thursday-at-midnight deadline.
After the bill was unveiled late Tuesday, Pelosi at last staked her position – and demanded that two provisions, dealing with financial regulation and campaign finance, be taken out.
"These provisions are destructive to middle class families and to the practice of our democracy," Pelosi said. "We must get them out of the omnibus package."
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The disagreement ups the pressure on lawmakers to at least pass a stopgap spending measure to keep the government humming past Thursday, and buy time for Congress to agree on a longer-term plan.
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