The No. 2 House Democrat said he won’t support another short-term bill to keep the government funded past mid-January if it sets spending levels at the Republicans’ preferred annual rate of $967 billion.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland added that Congress’ increasing reliance on stopgap spending bills — called continuing resolutions, or “CRs” — to fund the federal government in lieu of annual appropriations bills shows that the budgeting process on Capitol Hill is “broken.”