Fast Facts
2023 Congress -> Republican Majority (by slim margin of 4)
222-212
Five GOP Ideologically diverse caucuses
Freedom (36 members)
Main Street (70 members)
Moderate Governance Group (40+)
Republican Study Cmte (170)
Problem Solvers (bipartisan)
Debt Ceiling Budget Package:
$4.8 Trillion reduction in spending (return to spending level of 2021)
Extends Debt Limit to early 2024.
Vote was 217 to 215 (four GOP members voted no)
Kim Strassel has written a simple explanation of the gamesmanship now ongoing in the House, which appropriates (allocates) how our tax dollars are to be spent. From today’s Wall Street Journal Opinion page.
We still have a few rhinos we need to primary.