Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Government shutdown: Senate unveils stopgap bill, setting up showdown with the House and the 'Wrecking-Ball Caucus'

 Government shutdown: Senate unveils stopgap bill, setting up showdown with the House | CNN Politics

Senate Reaches Spending Deal to Head Off Government Shutdown - The New York Times (nytimes.com) 

Senate Democrats, GOP plan to pass CR with scant Ukraine funding, sources say | Fox News 

The Wrecking-Ball Caucus: How the Far Right Brought Washington to Its Knees 

“This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down,” Mr. McCarthy said.

“There is a group of Republican members who seem to feel there is no limit at all as to how you can wreck the system,” said Ross K. Baker, a professor of political science at Rutgers University. “There are no boundaries, no forbidden zones. They go where relatively junior members have feared to tread in the past.”

“The problem is we are being dragged around by 20 people when 200 of us are in agreement,” said Representative Mike Simpson, Republican of Idaho and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. “As long as we let those 20 drag us around, we are going to get these kinds of results. At some point in time, you’ve got to say, ‘We’re done.’”