House Republicans are struggling with the same battles over government funding that led to the chaotic unseating of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), seemingly cutting any honeymoon short for new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). GOP leadership this week yanked two spending bills from the floor amid disputes on spending and other controversial policy items. With a government funding deadline less than a week away, the conference seems hopelessly divided on how to avert a shutdown.
That’s the plan. The republicans have don’t want to reduce the deficit. In fact, it’s the Republican administrations are the one’s who keep pushing the deficit up.
The Republicans go out of their way to jack up the deficit and national debt and then screech like harpies that it’s somehow the Democrat’s fault and the GOP propaganda machine convinces voters that the Republicans are somehow the fiscally responsible ones.