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 stopgap, which is backed by leaders in both parties, are delaying a vote to give the House a chance to pass its own continuing resolution to fund government.
Senate conservatives want to give Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) more leverage to negotiate spending cuts and changes to immigration policy, leverage that would diminish if the Senate jams the House by moving first and passing a relatively clean stopgap.
It’s unclear if House Republicans will be able to rally around their own funding measure or if McCarthy would put the Senate bill up for a vote in the House once it passes the upper chamber.
An eye for an eye makes the world blind. The answer to our problems is not to cut our nose off to spite our face. This isn’t a winner-takes all situation.
Even if it was, it’s not like states like Taxas (lol, typo but keeping it) would go away. They’d just sit there and fester, spewing crime and hospital cases to the not-fucked up states. Same thing with Idaho, which relied heavily on other states when their hospitals all fell to covid cases during the peaks of covid.
So it’s in our best interest to help everyone and show them that there’s benefits for not voting for retarded politicians who actively try to run our republic into the ground.