McCarthy Warns Republicans Not To Shut Down Government

Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised to force a vote on military spending that was scrapped last week thanks to opposition from the House "Freedom Caucus" and warned members of his own party against shutting down the government. We'll see if it falls on deaf ears.

Here's McCarthy with Fox's Maria Bartiromo this Sunday claiming they made some "good progress" over the weekend, and going on about "wokism" over, and over, and over again:

BARTIROMO: Let's talk about the meetings you've been having over this September 30th deadline. What can you tell us in terms of a path forward? Do you have agreement on a path forward?

MCCARTHY: I feel we made some good progress this weekend. When Republicans took the majority, we wanted the change Washington. Make members show up for work, no more proxy voting, bills have to go through committee, no more of these omnibuses where the appropriation bills get jammed to us on Christmas time.

What we're trying to do is pass them individually. Unfortunately, I had a handful of members last week that literally, the Republicans, stopped the Department of Defense appropriations from coming forward.

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