The GOP’s infighting and inability to elect a House speaker means the lower chamber cannot get to work, potentially delaying crucial legislation
The repeated failures by House Republicans to elect a new speaker are making the federal government more likely to shut down next month, as the GOP’s weeks-long internal dysfunction threatens to delay vital legislation.
The House has been mostly closed for business since Oct. 3, when a band of far-right rebels ousted then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Republicans since have not coalesced around a replacement, running through multiple options without electing anyone. Without a speaker, lawmakers can’t bring bills to the floor.
Policy discussions have ground to a halt, even as war has broken out in Israel and federal funding is weeks away from expiring. Congress has until Nov. 17 to approve a deal to fund the government, or members of the military risk missing paychecks, national parks will close and the Internal Revenue Service will run shoestring operations.
They know they are going to get blamed for the shutdown regardless. It would be much better for it to be because they wanted "to elect a strong conservative to drain the swamp over the objections of the RINOs" and not "National parks are closed because Republicans wanted to defund social security and democrats said no."
National parks are the least of your worries. People loosing confidence in the dollar will bring this country to its knees.
Edit: It's really the reason DEMs should never cave to these negotiations. They are putting the finger on the red button and threatening to take us all out.
They're going to blame democrats for not voting for a moderate republican, even though republicans are the ones who can't get their act together and elect somebody who isn't pro-sedition.