House Republicans’ early moves to advance government spending proposals with steep domestic agency cuts before the midterm elections belie partisan gridlock to come.
GOP appropriators in the House have already started holding hearings and pushing legislation with funding proposals for the full fiscal year beginning in October. They released their first bills this year in April, two months sooner than the first bill release last year.
But those bills are unlikely to become law as written because Senate appropriators are expected to move in a more bipartisan fashion. And Democrats are vying to break unified GOP control of Congress with ...