With the collapse of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest plan to avert a federal shutdown, lawmakers have left town with no endgame in sight
The White House will tell federal agencies on Friday to prepare for a shutdown, according to an official with the Office of Management and Budget who insisted on anonymity to discuss the upcoming instructions. That's standard seven days out from a federal disruption.by agreeing to the steep spending cuts they are demanding to keep government open.
The open revolt was further evidence that McCarthy’s strategy of repeatedly giving in to the conservatives is seemingly only emboldening them, allowing them to run roughshod over their own House majority.McCarthy had agreed to with President Joe Biden“This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots,” Trump wrote on social media.
“I’m giving a eulogy for the CR right now,” Gaetz told reporters after a late afternoon meeting at the Capitol. The morning test vote shattered a McCarthy strategy that had emerged just the night before. Republicans had appeared on track, in a tight roll call, to advancing the measure Thursday. Then the Democrats who had not yet voted began rushing into the chamber.
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