The story is familiar — we've seen this movie, before. With just 10 days to go (as I write) until the federal budget expires on September 30, the House is once again locked in a fierce debate — including Republicans vs. Republicans — over government spending with respect to avoiding a federal government shutdown. With House Republicans once again locked in internecine warfare, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday detailed his key objectives for a budget resolution to avert a shutdown, including the banning of additional funds for federal censorship activities, and a ban on funds for the accommodation of illegal aliens, who continue to surge across the southern border, courtesy of Joe Biden's intentional border crisis.
The fact that there
even exists disagreement on the above two issues among our elected
representatives starkly points out the precarious state of 2023 America.
Make that Joe Biden's America. Jordan called on House Republicans to hone in on the Biden Border Crisis as a key campaign issue.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that Chuck Schumer, being the hyperpartisan political hack he is, would defeat such a bill in a New York minute while lying about his reason(s) for doing so, from start to finish. House Republicans' Internecine WarfareHow bad is it? Speaker Kevin McCarthy's job of bringing House Republicans together and passing a conservative bill to keep the federal government open is not dissimilar to trying to herd cats. At one point on Tuesday, House Republicans even voted against their own defense bill. During a contentious afternoon vote, the bill was turned back from consideration, 212-214, after five hardline conservatives helped torpedo it. McCarthy then walked off the House floor, telling reporters:
The House Republican dynamic is difficult — at best — with one bloc taking an all-or-nothing stance while threatening McCarthy's job at the drop of a hat, while another bloc seeks compromise in an attempt to pass legislation that would stand a chance of passage in Chuck Schumer's Democrat-controlled Senate. The Bottom LineI'm not suggesting one strategy is necessarily better than the other, but I do know enough about compromise to believe it's wise to sometimes take what you can get — and come back for more when you're in a stronger position. In my not-so-humble opinion, the current state of Washington politics is one of those times. And as for Jim Jordan's objectives, hell yeah. Include the bans on funding of censorship and accommodations for illegal aliens in an appropriations bill, and make Chuck Schumer have at — one way or another. More politics at politicspresumptuous.com |
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