Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer isn’t working with the House, and as a result, has been “holding the budget process hostage” while House Speaker Mike Johnson has been trying to pass a continuing resolution by Sept. 30, Rep. Greg Lopez, a member of the House Budget Committee, said on Newsmax Sunday.
“The House has approved some appropriation bills and Sen. Schumer has ignored that,” the Colorado Republican told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “This is how he likes to negotiate, is to look at things from the very last day, the last the very last possible time that we feel that we can pass a budget because of the fiscal year ending in September.”
Johnson, meanwhile, is attempting to push through legislation that combines the continuing resolution with the SAVE Act, proposed legislation to keep noncitizens from voting.
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