“A week ago, leading Republicans dared to hope Trump’s sway was ebbing,” Dana Milbank writes in Opinions. “He changed all that with one post announcing his expectation that he would be arrested.”
on those promises at Democrats’ request, and the results are in. To keep all those pledges, Republicans would literally have to eliminate everything —— else the government does. No more Homeland Security, no more Border Patrol or FBI, no more Coast Guard, air traffic control or federal funds for education or highways, no agricultural programs, no housing, food or disaster assistance, no cancer research or veterans’ health care, no diplomacy or space exploration, no courts — and no Congress.
Unsurprisingly, McCarthy’s lieutenants are attempting some rapid backtracking. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington said this week that the 10-year balanced budget is now merely an Lee revived the dangerously dubious idea that failing to raise the debt ceiling “is not a default.” “You can blow past the debt-ceiling increase deadline,” Lee said. “Yes, that causes problems … but that is not itself a default.”The federal debt is causing “more suffrage for the American people,” said Rep. Lauren Boebert , who presumably meant “suffering.”
The hard-liners, confused though they were, made clear that they weren’t wavering on the debt ceiling. “This is not the Republican Party of the past that will surrender,” said Rep. Bob Good . “We made history in January,” he said of the anti-McCarthy holdouts. “You’re going to see us make history again.”Can anybody here play this game?
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