The widening cracks within the Senate GOP were put on full display on Tuesday over House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy'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.
It includes priorities sought by both Republicans and Democrats, but conservatives have complained that the window between its unveiling and the vote leaves no time to properly read the more than 4,000-page document.
Many of those same conservatives in both the House and the Senate have been pushing for Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, who supports the omnibus, to punt spending negotiations to next year when Republicans hold the lower chamber.
Florida Senator Rick Scott told DailyMail.com at a Tuesday press conference that he wants his caucus to support their counterparts in the House.
But more establishment figures, like Texas Senator John Cornyn, called for 'cooler heads' to prevail and suggested bipartisan fiscal negotiations are an inevitability.
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