Georgia Congressman Clyde predicts House will finish appropriations bills before November deadline

Congressman Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., predicts that the House will finish all appropriations bills by the Nov. 17 deadline, but there might need to be a continuing resolution to give the Senate time to evaluate the bills. 

"I think the House will actually get its appropriations done, but there's not going to be enough time for conferencing with the Senate and to get it to the President," Clyde said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "That's kind of really the issue here."

Congress has until mid-November to pass the appropriations bills or enact another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. 

"If we do a CR that goes forward, it needs to be something different," Clyde said. "It cannot be a clean CR. I think that's completely out of the question."

He predicted that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., might move money around from other appropriations.

"I think he's looking to do things like, the $16 billion that we had for disaster relief that was on the first CR was not paid for," Clyde said. "We could move money again out of the IRS or out of another advanced appropriation. And we could pay for that. That would literally save $16 billion.

"We could do other things like capping the Green New Deal tax credits, which have all sorts of estimates from $300 billion to $600 billion up to $2 trillion," he continued. "We can cap it and say, 'it can be no higher than this.' We would absolutely save money there."