Gridlock is coming
Chip Roy and other House Freedom Caucus members are already planning the next debt default threats. Photo: Getty Images If, as is likely, Republicans gain control of the House in the 2022 midterms, Democrats will lose the power to enact legislation of their choosing. But that doesn’t necessarily mean Congress will lapse into the quiet uselessness of partisan gridlock, punctuated by occasional Republican efforts to reverse or defund executive actions by Joe Biden.
Conservative lawmakers, anticipating the GOP retaking one or both congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections, are already calling for and strategizing around a fiscal clash in 2023, insisting on using the threat of federal default to place new curbs on government spending and reduce the $28 trillion national debt….
But it’s not just destructive nostalgia motivating Republicans in looking ahead to hostage-taking havoc: it’s the will of their lord and master, as Paul Waldman notes: [C]onsider this additional wrinkle: Donald Trump will almost certainly demand that Republicans go this route — and we know how willing Republicans are to stand up to him.Trump has already attacked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for making a deal that puts off the next debt ceiling crisis until after the 2022 election. Now imagine it’s 2023, Republicans have just taken over the House, and the debt ceiling has to be raised again.
No, quiet obstruction is not going to be style preferred by Trump once he is the Leader of the Opposition in a divided government wherein Republicans will likely have the House as a staging point for their 2024 messaging. Indeed, the GOP would be able to set up multiple crises over must-pass legislation, including annual appropriations alongside debt limit “cliffs” and no telling what else.
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