"Does that mean you just don't want to govern?" House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said of GOP holdouts who are against passing a short-term measure to keep the government open.
This just looks like a Hail Mary to me. The GOP doesn’t even want this bill, but if he can persuade them to pass it under the pretext that it will fail in the Senate anyway, then they get to blame Senate Democrats and the GOP doesn’t have to take any responsibility for its own infighting.
This just looks like a Hail Mary to me. The GOP doesn’t even want this bill, but if he can persuade them to pass it under the pretext that it will fail in the Senate anyway, then they get to blame Senate Democrats and the GOP doesn’t have to take any responsibility for its own infighting.