Just a week out from a government shutdown borne out of House Republicans’ ineptitude, some senators are preparing to get off the sidelines.
by Greene and other hardliners twice this week, despite usually being one of the easiest government funding measures to pass, and one McCarthy hoped would chart a way forward for passing a wider resolution to divert a shutdown.
As such, a small band of far-right House Republicans have continued to thwart McCarthy’s efforts to pass even party-line spending bills until their demands are met, hijacking the House and embarrassing the speaker at every turn. Those spending measures—while inherently dead on arrival in the Senate—would, in practice, build leverage for Republicans once spending negotiations with Democrats begin.
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