House GOP leaders jettison promise to vote on 12 individual spending bills
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House Republican leaders are considering plans to fund the government that would lump some of their 12 promised spending bills into two or three separate packages.
The right had criticized the previous Democrat-led Congress for funding the government via a single massive "omnibus" bill, which they argued leads to more federal spending and gives less of a voice to rank-and-file members than voting on 12 separate bills would. Elizabeth Elkind is a reporter for Fox News Digital focused on Congress as well as the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and politics. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
But with the clock ticking until the first of two partial government shutdown deadlines next week, sources told Fox News Digital that GOP leaders are now considering turning the 12 individual bills into a series of "minibus" spending packages. Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com
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