Source: Kellie Mejdrich, ROLL CALL, 6/19/19


A meeting of top White House officials and congressional leaders broke up Wednesday without agreement on topline funding allocations for appropriators, raising fresh doubts over their ability to avert another fiscal crisis later this year. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Democrats of upping the ante on nondefense spending from what they’d put on the table previously. “The problem is the Democrats keep raising their number higher,” the California Republican said. “There’s no negotiation.”

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