Posted on Sep 14, 2023
As House Republicans bicker, the government shutdown threat grows
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Tensions among House Republicans came to a head Thursday morning, as Speaker Kevin McCarthy struggled to unite his narrow majority around a plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month — while protecting his job as speaker from far-right opposition.
Hard-line Republicans have spent the week explicitly tying McCarthy's political fate to the spending fight in a chaotic push for further control. The dynamic has ground the House to a standstill, just weeks before the deadline to fund the government or shut down.
McCarthy dared his critics at a Thursday morning meeting of House GOP members to stop talking about ejecting him from his job and start the formal process of doing it, saying, "'If you want to file a motion to vacate, then file the f****** motion,' " according to Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla.
Tensions among House Republicans came to a head Thursday morning, as Speaker Kevin McCarthy struggled to unite his narrow majority around a plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month — while protecting his job as speaker from far-right opposition.
Hard-line Republicans have spent the week explicitly tying McCarthy's political fate to the spending fight in a chaotic push for further control. The dynamic has ground the House to a standstill, just weeks before the deadline to fund the government or shut down.
McCarthy dared his critics at a Thursday morning meeting of House GOP members to stop talking about ejecting him from his job and start the formal process of doing it, saying, "'If you want to file a motion to vacate, then file the f****** motion,' " according to Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla.
As House Republicans bicker, the government shutdown threat grows
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Contributory negligence on both sides. Democrats always blame Republicans or now they're even blaming Trump when the same economic model that President Clinton and president Trump used actually is bringing in more Revenue to the government. But because of inflation caused by spending 9 trillion dollars, the US government is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a month because of inflation. They're paying Bond holders but getting less money. Maybe last month they had a slight break only because the student loan people were starting to pay their student loans back. For President Biden has screwed everything up and if President Clinton and president Trump had done quite autonomics, we would be in a worse situation than we are now. But your cat argue with an idiot like President Biden who doesn't know the first thing about economics and finance 101. Jfk, Bill Clinton and president Trump sure knew a lot about economics and finance and one. This government shutdown is probably a blessing for the Democrats because every few days you have a new revelation come a new bank account records, new whistleblowers coming forward demonstrating that the Biden Administration has been lying time and time again. The government shutdown would give a chance for Hunter Biden and his dad to bite their fingernails and try to figure out what the next lie should be to deflect off their 5-year-old plus mistakes.
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