Letters to the leaders: A group of more than 140 House Democrats are asking their leaders to advance “clean” government funding bills and to fund non-defense government programs at the levels agreed to in the debt ceiling package earlier this year.
Democrats have balked at GOP-led spending bills, including a stopgap funding bill that Republicans had tried to advance on the floor this week, because of policy provisions related to the border or abortion access.
“We write to urge you to bring forward appropriations bills without harmful poison pill policy riders to adequately fund the federal government in Fiscal Year 2024,” wrote the lawmakers, led by Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.). “Bogging down the appropriations process with controversial policy debates is contributing to another damaging political impasse.”
The letter was addressed to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Appropriations Chair Kay Granger and ranking member Rosa DeLauro.
