The widening cracks within the Senate were put on full display on Tuesday over House Republican Leader 's threat to lawmakers in the upper chamber who support the bipartisan omnibus funding bill.McCarthy pledged that any legislation from Senate Republicans who support the $1.7 trillion spending package will be 'dead on arrival' in next year's GOP-controlled House of Representatives.The bill was unveiled in the early hours of Tuesday. House and Senate leaders have made it clear that their intention is to pass it in a matter of days - and the sooner the better, with a powerful winter storm expected to hit part of the US later this week.
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