The House of Representatives canceled a scheduled key procedural vote Tuesday on a temporary government funding bill hashed out by Republicans.
The House GOP leadership pulled a vote originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET to advance a stopgap measure to fund the federal government through Oct. 31, according to an updated legislative schedule published by Democratic Whip Katherine Clark.
The U.S. faces a government shutdown if Congress fails to pass a temporary funding measure by midnight Sept. 30.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., supports a temporary funding measure to keep the government running. But he has faced opposition from hard-right members of the GOP.
Remember folks, all this disfunction would be over in a heartbeat if only the moderate Republicans would choose to work with the moderate Democrats instead of the nazi-loving, insurrection-abetting traitors on the alt-right.
In any group, if the good ones don’t weed out the bad ones, they’re not good ones.
A bad apple spoils the whole bunch and all that.
They held the speakership hostage and got rewarded for it. Why the fuck did the GOP expect things to be different in the future?
“We tried nothing, and we are all out of ideas!”
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But it would undoubtedly irritate colleagues who have said that passing any bill with Democratic votes would immediately trigger a motion to remove McCarthy from the speakership.
They want something, but it’s not negotiation, and it’s not compromise. They are petulant children throwing a tantrum anytime they don’t get exactly what they want.
