A freshman member of the House Freedom Caucus is calling for a sit-down between GOP hardliners and Republican lawmakers who are leading talks on government spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It comes after some of those same hardliners banded together to tank a procedural vote on the spending bill dealing with the Departments of Justice and Commerce last week.<\/p>\n
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., said the discord was not a conventional back-and-forth between leadership and rebels, but rather two starkly divided groups of House Republicans.<\/p>\n
\u2018What I think is the real fight, is not between the conference and [Speaker] Mike Johnson. It\u2019s the conference against the conference,\u2019 Burlison, who did not vote to sink the bill but voted against the House GOP\u2019s government funding extension last week, told Fox News Digital on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u2018There is a vast chasm between the mentality of many of the appropriators, who seem to have no appetite for making significant cuts, and folks like us in the Freedom Caucus.\u2019<\/p>\n
Lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee are tasked with cobbling together the 12 spending bills needed to fund the federal government in the next fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GOP hardliners like Burlison have accused those Republicans in charge of spending of trying to exceed the topline numbers set by House Republicans\u2019 Limit, Save, Grow Act. Conservatives have called for the House to adhere to those numbers despite that bill being dead on arrival in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Instead, the Senate is writing its appropriations to the topline in President Biden and ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s debt limit deal, the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). There\u2019s roughly a $120 billion difference between the two maximum levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Whether they just don\u2019t recognize the serious financial burdens that we\u2019re at, or they just don\u2019t want to take the responsibility of being the bad guy and making the cuts to their own appropriations, I don\u2019t know what it is, but something has to change,\u2019 Burlison said of appropriators.<\/p>\n
\u2018After McCarthy was vacated, the appropriators decided on their own, that they were going to appropriate to FRA levels. Without anyone in conference having a discussion about it, the appropriators went rogue\u2026 that\u2019s what\u2019s angering a lot of people, a lot of conservatives, is the lack of respect to the rest of the conference.\u2019<\/p>\n
Burlison called for a meeting between the Republican appropriators and the Freedom Caucus, a request he said had not yet been honored.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to the House Appropriations Committee but did not immediately hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tensions between the House lawmakers in charge of government funding and the GOP\u2019s right flank have grown steadily during the federal spending fight. That tension flared just last month during the race for House speaker, when a significant number of Republicans on the Appropriations Committee became one of the staunchest blocs of opposition against then-candidate Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.<\/p>\n\n
A freshman member of the House Freedom Caucus is calling for a sit-down between GOP hardliners and Republican lawmakers who are leading talks on government spending.\u00a0 It comes after some of those same hardliners banded together to tank a procedural vote on the spending bill dealing with the Departments of Justice and Commerce last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}