If dissenters continue to stymie his efforts to avoid a government shutdown, the speaker should stop accommodating them and reach out to Democrats to as he did when he secured an agreement with the White House on suspending the debt ceiling.
Under the Constitution, presidents can be impeached and removed from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The GOP has got nothing so far.Ideally McCarthy would be able to attract Democratic votes to protect the national interest, as he did in May when the House approved legislation toand forestall a default. That vote was a model of the sort of bipartisan compromise that should be the norm in a divided Congress.
But proposals by House Republicans for a continuing resolution — needed because of a lack of progress on specific appropriations bills — offer Democrats little incentive to come to McCarthy’s rescue., discussed at a House Republican conference meeting on Wednesday, reportedly is for a 31-day stopgap funding bill that would impose limits on spending more restrictive than what Democrats want and include measures to curb immigration.
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