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With a government shutdown all but imminent at this point, McCarthy shifts to playing chicken [1]
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Date: 2023-09-27
NPR: McCarthy Revives Immigration Battles in Bid to Shift Shutdown Blame from GOP Feuds
In recent days McCarthy, R-Calif., has repeatedly sidestepped reporters' questions about the House's plans to keep the lights on at federal agencies and whether he would work with Democrats on any spending plan. Instead, he is insisting that a short-term stopgap spending measure to keep the government funded include Republican-passed border policies. But that stopgap measure is a nonstarter in the Senate, and right now it's not even clear House Republicans can even get it across the finish line later this week.
So, the government shutdown is pretty much imminent, a whole bunch of people are not going to be able to get paid for their work, and all Kevin McCarthy wants to do is play chicken and evade the blame he and the House Republicans deserve for causing this mess in the first place. He insists on adding right-wing bullcrap he knows is not going to get through the Senate and the executive branch.
On the other hand, what else would be expected from a group of people that continually contest President Biden’s legitimacy and swear fealty to their dear orange leader? The Republicans of the House of Representatives continue their terror campaign against the rest of the United States of America.
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