A group of 21 hard-line conservative House Republicans has warned that they would vote against spending bills that fail to include satisfactory cuts, in a letter addressed to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday.
The lawmakers expressed their concerns about appropriations bills that could lead to increased spending levels, just as Congress is set to resume on Tuesday before the August recess.
“We plan to vote against any appropriations bills designed to achieve the approximately $1.586 trillion top-line spending level—roughly equal to the spending caps agreed to with in the debt ceiling deal and representing a mere 1 percent reduction from Democrats’ egregious post-COVID spending level,” the letter to McCarthy stated….