Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, called for the next spending bills to set a topline at the $1.59 trillion level previously agreed to by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Biden in the debt ceiling agreement, PBS Newshour reports.
Jamie Dupree: “If the Freedom Caucus had accepted this deal back in June, the funding bills might be near completion, McCarthy would still be Speaker, and there would be a lot more House GOP unity.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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