With just hours to spare, House Republicans and Democrats on Saturday struck a surprise deal to fund the government for another 45 days and avert a shutdown that would have inflicted economic pain on millions of American families. The GOP-drafted funding bill includes billions in disaster aid but none of the new Ukraine aid Democrats had pushed for.
McCarthy’s decision to pass a continuing resolution with Democratic votes doesn’t bode well for his political future, given that conservative bomb-thrower Rep. Matt Gaetz has been threatening for weeks to call a vote on McCarthy’s speakership if he brought a CR to the floor. All eyes are now on Gaetz to see if he will follow through with his threat.
While the countdown clock to a government shutdown loomed over America’s head all week, House Republicans added an embarrassing chapter to the Biden impeachment saga with their first hearing Thursday. Those proceedings featured six hours of muddled, scattershot, and baseless conspiracy theories, united opposition from Democrats, comically ill-prepared witnesses, and grumbling from within Republican ranks at a missed opportunity.
It was also a very bad week for twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted former president Trump, who kicked off the week by almost accidentally committing (another) a felony during a campaign stop in South Carolina.
He followed that up by posting a morally reprehensible death threat against the most senior military official in the U.S. Department of Defense, retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley. Amid that fallout,
McCarthy’s decision to pass a continuing resolution with Democratic votes doesn’t bode well for his political future, given that conservative bomb-thrower Rep. Matt Gaetz has been threatening for weeks to call a vote on McCarthy’s speakership if he brought a CR to the floor. All eyes are now on Gaetz to see if he will follow through with his threat.
While the countdown clock to a government shutdown loomed over America’s head all week, House Republicans added an embarrassing chapter to the Biden impeachment saga with their first hearing Thursday. Those proceedings featured six hours of muddled, scattershot, and baseless conspiracy theories, united opposition from Democrats, comically ill-prepared witnesses, and grumbling from within Republican ranks at a missed opportunity.
It was also a very bad week for twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted former president Trump, who kicked off the week by almost accidentally committing (another) a felony during a campaign stop in South Carolina.
He followed that up by posting a morally reprehensible death threat against the most senior military official in the U.S. Department of Defense, retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley. Amid that fallout,
