The House of Representatives by an overwhelming 335-91 margin voted to keep our government open for another 45 days, thereby signaling a major defeat for the wrecker caucus within the House. Among the wreckers are Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert and Margorie Taylor Greene. All of whom were being cheered on from the peanut gallery by Liddle Donnie Trump. It was good to see Democrats and Republicans working together for the common good and it remains to be seen whether Kevin McCarthy will remain speaker. The main drawback in the deal is the absence of funding for Ukraine. Hopefully that will be remedied next week.
I previously wrote about the wreckers in three prior blog posts. (See: https://shulmaven.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-strike-shut-it-down.html, https://shulmaven.blogspot.com/2013/10/after-action-report-on-government-shut.html, and https://shulmaven.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-republican-wrecker-caucus-strikes.html)
Although the characters are different from 10 years ago, the goal remain the same and that is to stop the normal functioning of government to serve their own petty ends. Unfortunately the House Republicans continue to circle the drain, meaning this will not be the last time we have to put with the MAGA wreckers.
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