A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline. Opponents of the Senate stop…
A second GOP senator who requested anonymity expressed optimism that McCarthy will be able to round up enough votes for an alternative House GOP-drafted stopgap.
Yeah, he requested anonymity because he knows that his hope is nothing but bullshit misdirection. He’s well aware that a Senate bill is on the table just waiting for a House vote that will never come, and that “an alternative House GOP-drafted stopgap” would be chock-full of poison pills that the Senate would never accept, but he’s hoping the existence of the latter would deflect blame from the petulant traitor caucus and unfairly back onto the Democrats that are actually trying to govern.
Yeah, he requested anonymity because he knows that his hope is nothing but bullshit misdirection. He’s well aware that a Senate bill is on the table just waiting for a House vote that will never come, and that “an alternative House GOP-drafted stopgap” would be chock-full of poison pills that the Senate would never accept, but he’s hoping the existence of the latter would deflect blame from the petulant traitor caucus and unfairly back onto the Democrats that are actually trying to govern.