The House of Representatives canceled a scheduled key procedural vote Tuesday on a temporary government funding bill hashed out by Republicans.
The House GOP leadership pulled a vote originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET to advance a stopgap measure to fund the federal government through Oct. 31, according to an updated legislative schedule published by Democratic Whip Katherine Clark.
The U.S. faces a government shutdown if Congress fails to pass a temporary funding measure by midnight Sept. 30.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., supports a temporary funding measure to keep the government running. But he has faced opposition from hard-right members of the GOP.
Remember folks, all this disfunction would be over in a heartbeat if only the moderate Republicans would choose to work with the moderate Democrats instead of the nazi-loving, insurrection-abetting traitors on the alt-right.
In any group, if the good ones don’t weed out the bad ones, they’re not good ones.
A bad apple spoils the whole bunch and all that.