Could Ukraine be the first casualty of the US budget showdown?
Kevin McCarthy, the beleaguered Speaker of the House of Representatives emerged from a meeting of his party on Friday night and told reporters that he believed he could get House Republicans to agree on a Senate plan to keep the government in business until November – if the Senate agreed to drop $6 billion in funding earmarked for Ukraine.
So how does the US end its budget impasse? For end it must. The economic consequences of not paying millions of civil servants and military service personnel mount over time. The other group has been mostly keeping its head down but may now emerge to cause the speaker a different problem. Friday’s vote on the Compromise measure proposed by McCarthy saw 21 defectors cross the aisle to vote with the Democrats.
One of them was that any single member of the Republican Caucus could trigger a mechanism to require McCarthy to stand for election all over again. Gaetz then went public, taking to the floor of the chamber and setting out his stall, threatening to bring down McCarthy over the budget standoff. McCarthy moved his compromise bill on Friday, in part to prove he was trying to keep the US government working and cast the blame on the MAGA faction that oppose him.
New York Republican Mike Lawler, laid into Gaetz openly, telling reporters:"Matt Gaetz is not a Conservative Republican – he is a charlatan". He told RTÉ News:"If Kevin McCarthy was willing to put the bipartisan Senate bill on the House floor, there’s a majority that would vote for it, we'd be able to avoid this shutdown. His problem is that he would need so many Democratic votes, he's afraid that he would lose his speakership because he’d be toppled from within his own party."
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