It sure looks like they’re going to shutdown the government. What comes next should be very fun:
President Biden has steered clear of the chaos in the lower chamber, but his aides have instead urged McCarthy to stick to the spending deal he struck with Biden back in May. One such aide said, “We agreed to the budget deal…House GOP should abide by it,” and added that their “chaos is making the case that they are responsible if there is a shutdown.” Gaetz was all too ready to lay the blame at McCarthy’s feet should a shutdown occur. On Wednesday afternoon, he said, “We will have a government shutdown and it is absolutely Speaker McCarthy’s fault. We cannot blame Joe Biden for not having moved our individual spending bills. We cannot blame House Democrats. We can’t even blame Chuck Schumer in the Senate.”
Does Gaetz think he’s going to be the speaker? I’m beginning to think he does. Which is ridiculous.
What does Gaetz want McCarthy to do? He wants him to defund the Jack Smith Special Counsel. He is only following orders:
I think there’s a typo. He meant “use the power of the purse to defund the country”
This is all absurd, of course. You can’t defund the special prosecutor and even if you could the Democratic Senate would not approve it and the president wouldn’t sign it. I assume Trump knows that (although I’m not sure, he learned nothing about how the government works even after four years as president) but he wants the government shut down for so long that the economy will crater and people will blame Biden and vote for him. It’s very stupid but that’s what we’re dealing with.