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    1 year ago

    McCarthy knew that a government shutdown would have pissed off even more Republicans in Congress, including all of those in vulnerable districts.

    For example, Boebert's district. Notice how for once she didn't vote alongside Gaetz? Behind closed doors, there were plenty of Congressional Republicans telling McCarthy that making make a deal with Democrats was preferable to a politically suicidal shutdown.