The House and Senate might not be able to agree to terms to fund the federal government by the Sept. 30 deadline, and that’s OK to an influential bloc of hard-line House conservatives who are playing an outsize role in both the spending process and the fate of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership.
I wish that anyone there is a government shutdown no current politician is available for reelection. If you can’t work together sometimes then GTFO!
So don’t elect republicans. Got it.
Pretty much!
I take a somewhat harder line.
Failure to pass an on time budget (no CRs) is treated as dereliction of duty and gets every seat in Congress vacated, requiring special elections, with no member so expelled eligible to run or be a registered lobbyist for at least ten years.