The White House prepares to shut down federal agencies after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no plan to keep the government funded.
Trump has urged the House Republicans on, pushing them to hold the line against federal spending.
“Any progress we are making is in spite of, not due to McCarthy,” Gaetz posted on social media, deriding the speaker for having sent lawmakers home for the weekend. “Pathetic.” It’s a capstone to a difficult week for McCarthy who tried unsuccessfully to advance a typically popular defense spending bill that was twice defeated in embarrassing floor votes. The speaker seemed to blame the defeat of the bill on fellow lawmakers “who just want to burn the whole place down.”
Because some agencies already had approved funding, it was a partial closure. The Congressional Budget Office estimated it came at a cost of $3 billion to the U.S. economy. While $3 billion is a lot of money, it was equal to just 0.02% of U.S. economic activity in 2019.Military and law enforcement officials would go unpaid. The disaster relief fund of the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be depleted, denying aid for victims of wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding.
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