Lawmakers say spending deal up to leaders – By Alexander Bolton (The Hill) / February 8, 2022
Lawmakers in both parties say it’s time for Congress’s top four leaders to meet face to face to negotiate a yearlong spending deal as talks among the senior members of the Senate and House Appropriations committees have dragged on and government funding will soon lapse.
But that may be easier said than done given the lingering resentments among the big four.
The four players had central roles in negotiating the last two major budget deals in 2018 and 2019.
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) rarely meet in person, and their relationship took another beating last month when Schumer made an all-out push to change the Senate’s filibuster rule.
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