He’s posturing, trying to achieve a suitable temperature for a deal, and that’s his job, but House Speaker Mike Johnson’s weekend Fox appearances were a little on the suspect side this past weekend if I’m being honest.
This was Johnson arguing, on Larry Kudlow’s show that it’ll be a Democrat-led government shutdown we’ll get if Chuck Schumer and the rest of the American Sandinistas (that’s not just a perjorative taken from thin air; it wasn’t so long ago that we all got to find out about Tim Kaine’s background, no thanks to the legacy corporate media) get their way. Before he got into the budget discussion, Johnson covered the fact that most of the Democrats in the House voted against their leadership in giving a “no” to the Charlie Kirk resolution. The discussion of the budget negotiations at about the 6:15 mark…
He noted that Congress is moving closer to achieving regular order, in which the federal budget is crafted via the passage of the 12 various appropriations bills — three of which have passed in both the House and Senate and are at the conference committee stage, the other nine have come out of House committees and are due for a vote on the House floor soon. But with the fiscal year ending in a week (Sept. 30), they’re out of time to return the budget to regular order for the first time in a quarter-century without a seven-week stopgap continuing resolution. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 273: A Government Shutdown Is Inevitable, and the Left Will Be the Only One Losing)
Johnson went further in an appearance on Fox News’ Saturday Morning in America with Kayleigh McEnany to reiterate that Congressional Democrats will own the consequences if they force a government shutdown; that discussion begins the segment…
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