


The White House issued a veto threat Tuesday against H.R. 4394, one of House Republicans's funding bills for the coming fiscal year.
President Joe Biden signed a 45-day continuing resolution keeping the government open through mid-November. But the stopgap did not resolve a larger rift between Democrats and the Republican-led House, where Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is setting fiscal 2024 spending levels below those agreed upon in his debt ceiling agreement with Biden. White House officials had previously chastised Republican lawmakers for the shift, rhetoric that the administration continued in Tuesday's missive.
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"House Republicans had an opportunity to engage in a productive, bipartisan appropriations process, but instead are wasting time with partisan bills that cut domestic spending to levels well below the FRA agreement and endanger critical services for the American people," the statement reads. "These levels would result in deep cuts to clean energy programs and other programs that work to combat climate change, essential nutrition services, law enforcement, consumer safety, education, and healthcare."
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The White House specifically raised concerns about how the energy and water development funding bill includes "billions in additional recessions" from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act "that would result in unacceptable harm to clean energy efficiency initiatives that lower energy costs and critical investments in rural America."
Furthermore, the administration claimed that three sections of the bill could violate the Constitution "by conditioning the executive's authority to reprogram funds on receiving the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations."