After his GOP majority “shut down” a workable, bipartisan, and tough-on-immigrant border deal simply because Maximus Trump ordered them to do so, Texas congressloon Chip Roy prematurely warned the world of disaster a day before the budget deal was struck, and signed, immediately, by President Biden. Roy has been in the House since 2019, and ought to have known that rarely do these threatened shutdowns occur, although they have done three times, once each, under Clinton (16 days), Obama (21 days), and under Chip Roy’s unprecedented President Trump (the longest shutdown at 33 days).
Roy, by the way, is a prototypical MAGA/Tea Party budget ax man who has never met a budget item he didn’t want to cut, especially social welfare programs and taxes. Hypocritically, he would have applauded a shutdown. Like most of his GOP/MAGA congressloon colleagues (and, sadly, this includes some fifth column Democrats), causing the federal government to shut down is their overriding primary rationale, intimately intertwined with their tax cutting fever. This is why they continually underfund important federal programs: this causes inefficiencies and poor management of these programs, thus proving, to those who don’t make the connection, that the federal government does not work, in general and in particular. They are for decades the quintessential anti-government force in American history.
Preach, brother, preach:
