“The speaker and the president reached an agreement, which I supported, in connection with raising the debt ceiling, to set the spending levels for next year,” McConnell said.
Schumer’s letter comes just a day after Minority Leader MITCH McCONNELL underscored the need for bipartisanship to keep the government open in a Kentucky speech that was quickly overshadowed by the Republican’s health scare. The chamber passed all 12 approps bills out of committee on a bipartisan basis, he boasts - drawing an implicit contrast to the House, where KEVIN McCARTHY has broken faith on his spending caps deal with President JOE BIDEN, and is instead pushing partisan proposals that don’t have a prayer of becoming law. “The only way to avoid a shutdown is through bipartisanship, so I have urged House Republican leadership to follow the Senate’s lead and pass bipartisan appropriations bills,” Schumer writes. In the letter, which was obtained by Playbook, Schumer seeks to drive a wedge between House and Senate Republicans - offering praise for both Senate Appropriations Chairwoman PATTY MURRAY (D-Wash.) and ranking Republican SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine), a lawmaker with whom Schumer is often at loggerheads. ‘The bad news is it’s still in your wallet.’”įIRST IN PLAYBOOK: SCHUMER DRIVES WEDGE BETWEEN HOUSE, SENATE GOP - In a “Dear Colleague” letter that will hit Senate inboxes this morning, Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER signaled that he will lay blame for any government shutdown at the feet of House Republicans if they fail to pass spending legislation by the end of the month. Try this one at your next salary negotiation: “‘Now the good news is that we have all the money we need in this room,’ told the donors. A state Supreme Court contest, where Democrats are making abortion front and center, is on the ballot this November.”ĪNOTHER KIND OF ‘ROE’ LEAK - “DeSantis Super PAC’s Urgent Plea to Donors: ‘We Need 50 Million Bucks,’” by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
… The prevailing fear is that the party will not be in the strongest shape possible ahead of the presidential election and a key Senate race next year. The state party underwent a round of layoffs in July, which have not been reported until now. STATE OF THE ‘BLUE WALL’ - “‘It’s amateur hour’: Democrats panic about state of the Pennsylvania party,” by Holly Otterbein: “‘It’s a f-ing disaster,’ said a former state party staffer.
In a “Dear Colleague” letter that will hit Senate inboxes this morning, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer signaled that he will lay blame for any government shutdown at the feet of House Republicans.
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