Taking a page from Alabama Republican US Senator Tommy Tupperville?
They want to shut things DOWN with the military to roll back Abortion, Gay , Race, Immigration law and policy to the ‘Good ole Day’s’……
House Speaker Republican McCarthy WILL probably have to make ‘deals’ WITH Democrats to get things done….
(Moderate and Swing state Republicans can ill afford to be seen trying to shut down the Government on policy moves that their voters do NOT embrace)
That will keep him on thin political ice…But keep the country running…..
It would seem that the Right-WingNuts REALLY don’t want their party top make much gains across the board in the 2024 Presidential and Congressional Elections…..
Hard-right House Republicans are pushing to use the yearly bill that sets the United States military budget and policy as an opportunity to pick fights with the Biden administration over abortion, race and transgender issues, imperiling its passage and the decades-old bipartisan consensus in Congress around backing the Pentagon.
Republican leaders have scheduled votes beginning on Wednesday on the $886 billion measure, but as of Tuesday evening, they had yet to dissuade their ultraconservative colleagues from efforts to load it up with politically charged provisions to combat what the G.O.P. calls “wokeness” in the military.
Those proposals — including rolling back a Pentagon policy providing service members access to abortions and defunding the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs — would alienate the moderate Republicans and Democrats whose votes would be needed to get the bill through the narrowly divided House.
The situation has turned the annual defense policy bill into the latest test of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership since the far right revolted over the debt ceiling deal he forged with President Biden, grinding the House to a halt to demand more influence over its agenda. Right-wing lawmakers have threatened to do so again if their priorities are not met, and this time, their tactics could ensnare what is widely seen as one of the few must-pass pieces of legislation before Congress each year, normally drawing broad support across the political spectrum….
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Mr. McCarthy’s small majority means he can afford to lose no more than four Republicans on any vote, giving factions of his party outsize leverage to make demands. Last month, 11 hard-right Republicans, including Mr. Roy, managed to bring the House floor to a standstill by withholding their votes for a rule governing legislative debate, in protest of the debt ceiling deal.
It was not clear whether those lawmakers or others might do the same thing with the ground rules for the defense bill, which would block it from being considered….
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Should Republicans succeed in shepherding the bill to the floor, mainstream Republicans could help defeat some of the conservative social policy proposals….
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“As a Republican, I want to make sure that we are showing compassion to women, and that we don’t drop the ball this week,” Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, said in an interview when asked about her party’s push to roll back the Pentagon’s policy on abortion access. “That’s my concern as it stands.”….
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