White House budget director urges Congress to "start today" on passing full-year funding bills
White House budget director Shalanda Young urged Congress to immediately begin working to pass full-year funding bills so that the US government does not face more shutdown drama when a stopgap measure expires in November.
Young said she “appreciated” Speaker Kevin McCarthy “finally” upholding his part of the deal he reached with the White House earlier this summer to avert a catastrophe over the debt ceiling.
“We need to start today, to make sure that we do not have this brinksmanship, last-minute anxiousness of the American people. Let’s do our jobs to not have this happen again. Let’s have full-year funding bills at the end of this 47 days. Let’s not do this again,” Young said on "ABC This Week."
Asked if McCarthy deserved credit for the deal, Young said, “That’s the job of speaker: Put the American people before anything else. Keep your end of the bargain, keep your end of the deal. We had a deal. I appreciate the speaker for keeping it.”
Young also praised the bipartisan coalition that helped avert the shutdown.
“That’s what that vote was in the House and Senate — strong bipartisan votes that people want to do the right thing. We have to use that coalition of bipartisan members to start work now, to make sure we aren’t in this place again,” she added.
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