“Doesn’t the House have the power of the purse?”
Normally yes, but McConnell and 17 other GOP senators passed the $1.7trillion Omnibus last week, funding the governemnt and every pet project imaginable through 2023, so the new House will not get a crack at their budget negotiations until Q4 2023.
Gotta love that controlled-opposition.
There is the Holman Rule that two GOP Congressmen say they are going to use once the GOP takes control of the House.
It just takes a simple House majority to invoke the Senate has no role.
They’ll start working on it around 12/1, just in time for another “looming shutdown” that has to be avoided.