'Everyone’s mad': Fight to avoid government shutdown shatters House GOP peace

The fight to avoid a government shutdown is again bringing out the fault lines within the House GOP’s razor-thin majority.

House Republican leaders sought to avoid another messy, drawn-out battle over federal funding this year by rolling out an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 individual appropriations bills before the annual August recess.

That effort has been all but derailed; rank-and-file Republicans are frustrated that GOP rebels are pushing for politically unpopular votes on measures that would likely not be in the final bills after compromising with the Democratic-held Senate. Fiscal conservatives and GOP rebels, however, accused the former of being unwilling to utilize their House majority.

Now some GOP lawmakers are accusing the latter of "political masturbation" while the rebels blast the "terrible process" that lawmakers have followed for years.

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"Many of the appropriators are not excited about seeing some of these amendments being voted on. So, they vote against the amendments, and they get upset with those people when they don't vote for the full appropriations bill, so everybody's mad," one House Republican granted anonymity to speak freely told Fox News Digital.

A second House Republican said, "Most of them I do philosophically agree with, so it's not that it's tough. It's that they're unnecessary. We know they're not going anywhere."

"If you bring an amendment up that … makes me feel good … but it's literally not going to pass a markup, or it's not going to allow the bill to pass on the floor because the moderates are not going to like it, it's just political masturbation at that point. So, what are we doing?" the second GOP lawmaker said.

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