#calamitous — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #calamitous, aggregated by home.social.
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#HakeemJeffries on #Winning the #House and #Defending #Democracy Against Another #January6th style #Insurrection.
The #difference between a #smooth #presidential #transition and a #calamitous #repeat of 2021 might come down to who holds the #gavel. And while #MikeJohnson himself might seem #tame, his #commitment to #overturning a potential #Trump #loss could be quite the opposite.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/hakeem-jeffries-mike-johnson-house-january-6
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It’s been obvious for months that Republicans in the House of Representatives intend to lead the country toward a #calamitous #debt #ceiling #crisis in order to get their way on #spending.
Only in the last few weeks, however, has it become clear just how truly #chaotic that process will be.
Republicans, it turns out, #don’t even #know #what #they #want in exchange for dropping their threat to cause a default, beyond a fuzzy shared goal of cutting federal spending.
Even if President Biden and the Democrats were inclined to negotiate with them to lift the debt ceiling — which would be a serious mistake — it’s not clear #who their negotiating partners would be.
The House has become so factionalized that its leaders cannot speak in one voice, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy may not be able to assemble a majority to lift the debt ceiling at all.