“Six days from now, we’ll either see a government shutdown putting millions of federal employees on furlough — or an 11th hour bipartisan spending agreement that could trigger an effort to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House,” Politico reports.
“For McCarthy, the developing situation is something of a Catch-22.
”“If McCarthy pursues the hard-right approach favored by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and a handful of other members — passing GOP-written bills packed with spending cuts and conservative policy riders — it is dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate. A shutdown is inevitable.”
“If, instead, McCarthy passes a bipartisan continuing resolution to keep the government open, it likely imperils his speakership by decisively turning the House’s hardline conservatives against him. A motion to vacate is inevitable.”