Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing an incredibly racist crack-pot (or maybe that’s crack pipe) Fox News-inspired conspiracy theories to gum up that government funding bill. Seriously. This is now a real, fake, and very racist issue holding up the continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government after Friday, midnight.
It’s not just that fake fight from Republicans, though. They’re also threatening a shutdown over those vaccine mandates the Supreme Court didn’t throw out last month. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who really doesn’t want a government shutdown but is completely okay with making this as difficult as possible—and using as much floor time as possible—says, “as is often the case, we’ll process a few amendments before doing a short term CR. I think it’ll all be worked out, there’s no danger of a government shutdown.”
That’s not all, though. With a Russian invasion of Ukraine potentially imminent, a weeks-long effort to come up with a sanctions bill has fizzled, as Republicans have been holding out and dragging the process out. That means they’ve come down to the wire, and Democrats have pretty much decided it’s going to be too late to get a bill done.