Senate leaders are 'grabbing the steering wheel' from Kevin McCarthy to avoid a government shutdown

With a federal government shutdown just around the corner, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) is making a last-minute effort to work out some type of budget agreement with far-right members of his caucus. But talks in the U.S. House have not been going well.

In a report published on September 27, The Hill's Alexander Bolton describes the ways in which U.S. Senate leaders are "grabbing the steering wheel from" McCarthy "in hopes of avoiding a wreck in the form of a government shutdown at the end of the week."

Both Democratic and GOP senators, Bolton reports, "have lost confidence in McCarthy's ability to move a stopgap funding measure through the House."

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On Tuesday, September 26, Bolton notes, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) pushed a funding bill he described as a "bridge" — not "the final proposal for the whole year."

Bolton explains, "The Senate plan is to pass the continuing resolution by Thursday or Friday and send it over to the House before government funding technically expires at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. Senators are betting that if they jam the House right before the deadline, McCarthy will relent and bring it to the House floor, where it would likely pass in a bipartisan vote."

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The Hill's full report is available at this link.