The far right in the GOP fail to cut any spending in new budget deal.
“When their Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), cut one too many spending deals with President Biden, they booted him from power.
But Congress last week wrapped up the 2024 spending battle with bipartisan votes to approve a massive, $1.2 trillion government funding package — and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) survived the biggest fight of his short, five-month tenure
Indeed, for all the dramatic flourishes and public outrage, the conservatives failed to change the trajectory of the spending debate — save delaying it a few months and splitting the sprawling package into two pieces — while Johnson was able to cut deal after deal with Biden and the Democrats without suffering McCarthy’s fate. ”
The budget deals are increasingly partisan tit for tat fights that threaten to explode into much larger conundrums that threaten to shut down the whole government. The deficit is a problem that will one day come home to roost but in the mean time funding the basic functions of the Federal government is vitally important, failure to do so would have catastrophic consequences. Any hint of weakness is automatically exploited by our adversaries like China and Russia who would love nothing more than see American dominance falter.
