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Freedom Caucus backs funding bill,

Clearing way for House passage

By Mike Lillis
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Melanie Zanona
01/18/18

The House Freedom Caucus has endorsed a deal with GOP leadership to support a short-term government funding bill, putting the House on track to pass the stopgap on Thursday night and send it to the Senate.

The caucus endorsed the deal on Thursday night, after warning they had the votes to defeat it earlier in the day.

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Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) emerged from a meeting in Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) office saying that leadership promised to have separate votes to help improve military readiness and address other national security issues. They would not be attached to the stopgap continuing resolution (CR), he added.
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"Obviously, I would be recommending to our caucus, based on what I just heard, that we support the president in this particular initiative," he said.

Members of the caucus, a band of roughly 30 conservative hard-liners, were withholding their support from the House GOP bill, despite a call from President Trump into their meeting Thursday afternoon. The White House said in a statement that Trump backed the House bill.

The House vote on the CR is scheduled for Thursday evening and the caucus warned earlier in the day that they had enough opposition to sink its passage in the House.

However, Meadows had strongly suggested that he would accept the new deal.

He put forth a few things for our caucus to consider that would actually be beneficial to the military and our focus on the military needs going forward," Meadows said.

Meadows then urged the rest of the caucus to accept the offer. The group met in Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) office to take a vote.

-Updated 6:38 p.m.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/369653-freedom-caucus-has-tentative-deal-with-gop-leadership-to-support-stopgap

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