Right-wingers cause 'major headache' for swing district Republicans with 'root canal' spending cuts

Members of the House Freedom Caucus are causing headaches among centrist Republicans as they push “to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level of $1.47 trillion,” Reuters reports.

The ongoing “feud over spending cuts” risks another federal government shutdown in the fall given Democratic control of the Senate and White House.

Reuters reports:

"The reductions are so deep," said Representative Don Bacon, a centrist Republican from Nebraska. "They want to make everything a root canal."

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Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus want “spending to be in line with pre-COVID levels rather than the debt-limit agreement” forged by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden in May, HFC member Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) told Reuters.

Republicans are charting a “tricky path” as McCarthy can only lose ”four Republican votes if he hopes to pass all 12 appropriations bills before funding expires on Sept. 30,” Reuters reports.

"I do not know how they get themselves out of this jam," former Senate Republican budget director William Hoagland told the news agency.

Read the full report at Reuters.