McCarthy wonders WTF to do as Congress hurtles toward government shutdown

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McCarthy confronts key decisions as Congress hurtles toward government shutdown

With six days until the government runs out of money, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a choice to make: Does he risk a shutdown to keep his job or does he cross his Republican hardliners by working with Democrats?

It’s a defining moment that has been months in the making. To build favor with his detractors, McCarthy is allowing Republicans to move forward with voting on a series of appropriations bills this week, even though they will be dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

But time is running out and Republicans have failed to rally around a short-term option. And the promises McCarthy made in January when he bowed to hardliners to get his speaker’s gavel are finally coming home to roost.

“This is the third major fight of the Congress: opening week, debt ceiling and now government funding,” said GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, one of McCarthy’s trusted allies who helped negotiate the bipartisan debt ceiling deal. “This was always going to be a battle.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccarthy-confronts-key-decisions-congress-090014859.html

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1. Kev won't do anything. He never does.

He can't lead because he's an amalgam of competing interests that he never chastened. He is subject to them, not the other way round.

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2. He shoulda told MYG and Geatz to fuck off.

Work with Dems to support the agreement, made 6 months ago. Pass common sense budget priorities. But no, dummy would prefer to get group molested by the Freedom Caucus.