“The House plans to vote this week on a three-month stopgap funding bill as the clock ticks down and Donald Trump pressures Republicans to shut down the government without policy concessions they have no realistic chance of achieving.”
The policy concession? To pass a law that would make it illegal to vote if women changed their names if married and DID NOT change it on the birth certificate.
No joke.
It would become effective BEFORE the election.
“ Johnson and other GOP leaders are pleading with their party not to allow a shutdown just five weeks before Election Day, which would be unprecedented in modern times. Swing-district Republicans say it would be a terrible move, as their party would likely get blamed by voters.”
Historically this is exactly what happens. Republicans WANT to blame it on Biden.
It hasn’t even got that far. Republicans THEMSELVES can’t even agree.
It is monumentally stupid.