Between a threatened impeachment inquiry and looming government shutdown, House and Senate Republicans are miles apart.
That is the exact opposite of the vibe in the Senate, where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has made clear that he and his fellow Republicans intend to stick to the previous terms of the deal. “The speaker and the president reached an agreement which I supported in connection with raising the debt ceiling to set spending levels for next year,” McConnell. “The House then turned around and passed spending levels that were below that level.
I’ve spent a lot of time ragging on the Senate over the years, but I gotta say that when it comes to this year’s appropriations bills, the Senate is cruising along in a way I didn’t expect. The Senate Appropriations Committee not only passed all 12 spending bills, it passed all 12 with, something that feels as rare as hen’s teeth these days. The plan is to start moving those across the Senate floor for passageLooming over all that is the specter of impeachment. I wrote last month that.
Senate Republicans are doing what’s best for Senate Republicans, rather than what might help bail out the speaker.that GOP leadership is debating internally whether to skip the impeachment inquiry step, even if it will prove that Republican objections over the process in 2019 were more for show than concern about precedent. McCarthy tried to deny the reports on Friday when he
that there would be a vote. But the votes needed for an impeachment inquiry aren’t about to suddenly materialize, no matter how heavily Trump leans on the holdouts., has “suggested he’d use an impeachment vote to smoke out any MAGA-skeptical Republicans and support primary opponents against them.
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