Are House Republicans gonna shut down the Government Before Election Day????

THAT would probably NOT be the optimum thing to do, eh?

The House GOP’s inability to coalesce around a strategy to address a looming government funding deadline is sparking a blame game among Republicans, after opposition from multiple factions helped thwart Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) strategy to avert a shutdown at the end of the month.

Grappling with his razor-thin House majority, Johnson opted to try the spending plan proposed by hard-liners in the House Freedom Caucus: attach a conservative proposal, a bill to require proof of citizenship to vote, to a six-month extension of funding as an opening salvo to the Democratic-controlled Senate. Former President Trump has also called to condition government funding on the voting bill….

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While the current dynamics are getting under the skin of House Republicans, it is not a new phenomenon for the conference.

House Republicans have tried to pass regular spending bills with funding levels they knew the Democratic-controlled Senate would never accept, only to pull the measures or watch them fail on the floor due to opposition from within the House GOP. A year ago, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) attempted a remarkably similar strategy — attaching a GOP border bill to a continuing resolution — that failed on the House floor, prompting him to pass a “clean” stopgap with the help of Democrats.

And while frustration is bubbling up in some GOP corners over the opposition to Johnson’s spending strategy, one House Republican said he is not phased because the behavior has been status quo this Congress……

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