Republican leaders will propose cutting more spending to offset the amount of additional disaster relief money in a short-term government spending measure defeated earlier by the House, a GOP aide told CNN on Thursday.
The additional spending cut, called an offset, would be roughly $100 million from a Department of Energy loan program linked to a solar panel firm that recently collapsed, said another Republican source.
The move is intended to persuade the 48 Republicans who voted against the GOP measure Wednesday night to change their minds, according to the GOP aide, who spoke on condition of not being identified.
Democrats in the House and Senate said Thursday they oppose any offsets of emergency spending for natural disasters.
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