Republicans released text for 10 more proposals, including bills that would fund infant nutrition, the Food and Drug Administration, intelligence agencies, weather monitoring, and Head Start preschool programs.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the House will pass a bill to give retroactive pay to furloughed federal employees and the White House said it would support such a bill.
Republicans’ best hope was to keep sending piecemeal bills and wait for public sentiment to change, said Representative Hal Rogers of Kentucky, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
“The public is going to finally say to the president, ‘Look, at least sit down and talk,’” he said.
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