GOP Right Wing and Main Street Caucuses Team Up to Create Short-Term Continuing Resolution

GOP hardliners and pragmatists favor a short-term continuing resolution with 8 percent spending cuts, prompting opposition from some ultra-conservatives.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D) during an interview at his house in Mitchell, S.D., on Feb. 12, 2020. Screenshot/The Epoch Times

A coalition of House Republicans introduced legislation that would keep the federal government funded through Oct. 31 with a reduction in discretionary spending, allowing additional time for Congress to determine 2024 spending levels.

The measure was proposed by members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus and the pragmatically minded Main Street Caucus on Sept. 17, less than two weeks before the end of the federal fiscal year.