The White House reacted to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) new stopgap funding bill Saturday, calling it “extreme.”
“This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns—full stop,” a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre read. “With just days left before an Extreme Republican Shutdown—and after shutting down Congress for three weeks after they ousted their own leader—House Republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties.”
“An Extreme Republican Shutdown would put critical national security and domestic priorities at risk, including by forcing service members to work without pay,” Jean-Pierre continued. “This comes just days after House Republicans were forced to pull two of their own extreme appropriations bills from the floor—further deepening their dysfunction.”
I disagree, “The Congressional Chaos Shutdown" would pin it on congress as a whole.
There’s a semi-paradoxical fact that most people strongly dislike congress, but have higher opinions of their congressman. They always blame dysfunction on “other people in congress”. I guarantee if you polled republican voters and asked who was in control of congress, a substantial portion would say democrats.
That’s what they tried to do when McCarthy was ousted, blame it on the Democrats. The majority of those who voted to remove McCarthy, do it was the Democrats that did it. Ignoring of course the actual instigators, Republicans.
Exactly! Heck, right before he was ousted McCarthy went on TV and blamed Democrats for not passing a budget, despite the fact that 1) McCarthy’s continuing resolution passed primarily with Democrat votes, and 2) Republicans were the ones unable to agree as a party on a budget.
It’s super important to constantly hammer home that all of this dysfunction isn’t “congress”, it’s congressional republicans.