If the government shuts down, House Republican leadership has no plans to call members back from recess to negotiate a reopening. Instead, they will try to make Senate Democrats swallow their bill, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.
“Why would we negotiate against ourselves and bring people back?” one senior GOP aide told NOTUS.
House Republicans passed their government funding measure on Tuesday and left town with a preplanned recess slated for next week. The bill, which received just one Democratic vote in the House, needs the support of eight Democrats in the Senate to clear the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold. (Though there are 53 Republicans in the Senate, GOP Sen. Rand Paul has already come out against the legislation.)