GOP conservatives peeved that Democrats and some spending-friendly Republicans are preparing to pass a roughly $1.7 trillion omnibus package are looking at ways they can restore some fiscal and process discipline to the appropriations process in the next Congress.
Senate Republicans held a special conference meeting Wednesday, called by a group of conservatives, to discuss spending issues and other priority agenda items for the next two years, including leveraging a debt ceiling deadline to enact some fiscal controls.
House Republican leaders and incoming Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, hosted a news conference to lambaste the omnibus agreement announced Tuesday night that GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said would increase discretionary spending “somewhere about $100 billion.”
