White Home Blasts Home Republicans For Threatening Authorities Shutdown If The Border Is not Closed

The White Home hammered Home Republicans for threatening to close down the federal government until the border is closed.

Home Republicans: Shut Down The Border, Or We’ll Shut Down The Authorities

Fox Information reported on the newest MAGA shutdown menace:

NEW: GOP Congressmen @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RepMattGaetz @RepEliCrane @RepBobGood @RepRosendale right here in Eagle Go, TX now, forward of delegation of practically 60 others at this time w/ @SpeakerJohnson . They inform me “shut the border down, or we’ll shut the government down. We control the money.” pic.twitter.com/mdiCaUWnfa

— Invoice Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 3, 2024

The border is no less than the third subject that Republicans have used as a motive for a authorities shutdown since they took management of the bulk. Beforehand, Republicans claimed that authorities spending was the rationale why they needed to close down the federal government. Some MAGA House Republicans have additionally expressed a want to close down the federal government until the prison circumstances in opposition to Donald Trump finish.

Now, the border is the large subject that Republicans declare they need to get their method on to keep away from a authorities shutdown.

The White Home Hammers Home Republican Border Hypocrisy

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates mentioned in response to the Republican shutdown menace:

There they go once more: ‘we’ll shut the federal government down. We management the cash.’ After voting to get rid of hundreds of Border Patrol brokers and undercut our fentanyl crackdown, opposing the file border safety funding President Biden delivered, and now blocking his urgently-needed proposal to rent extra CBP brokers and put money into new fentanyl-detection expertise, Home Republicans are as soon as extra compromising America’s nationwide safety and financial progress with shutdown threats.

President Biden submitted his border safety funding plans in August and once more in October. However after taking the nation to the brink of a shutdown within the fall and forcing three weeks of paralysis as they discovered a brand new Speaker, the Home GOP left Washington in mid-December for an early trip they nonetheless haven’t returned from. As we speak’s statements are simply Home Republicans’ newest admission that as President Biden and each events within the Senate search frequent floor to deal with the wants of the American individuals, their convention is as a substitute selecting excessive politics that might topic American households to unnecessary ache.

Shutting Down The Authorities Received’t Repair The Border

Essentially the most deranged piece of the House Republican threat is the reality that shutting down the federal government can be the worst plan of action to take care of the immigration subject.

The best step that Republicans within the Home might take can be to take a seat down with the Senate and White Home to barter a complete immigration reform invoice.

Since Home Republicans aren’t inquisitive about governance, and would moderately threaten and hostage take to get their very own method, they’re proposing a step that can solely make the issue that they declare to care a lot about worse.

The government shutdown threat is proof that House Republicans have little interest in governing. The House majority is enjoying politics and making an attempt to attain factors forward of an election.

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Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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