“We have an evolving strategy going right now. This whole place is about chaos, right?” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) said about the September gameplan.
A day after Speaker Kevin McCarthy dramatically escalated his party’s impeachment drive, he is still struggling to contain a conservative revolt that could soon plunge Washington into a shutdown.
Even McCarthy loyalists are concerned about the lack of options for a high-stakes September, with some privately more worried about shouldering the blame for a shutdown than the newly announced Biden impeachment inquiry. Republicans will lose their majority next year if Democrats flip just a handful of seats.
Yet the reality is that his conservative members have enough votes to derail every one of McCarthy’s spending priorities: the defense spending bill on Wednesday, virtually all of the other 10 bills still on the docket and any kind of short-term funding bill. GOP leaders punted plans to take up the defense bill in the early afternoon, with widespread doubt that it can be resolved this week.
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