Republicans are going to shoot themselves in the foot in the run-up to the 2024 election if they continue to think that shutdowns are a great way to put themselves in front of the American people,” Rove said in a Fox News interview Sunday.
Without a new deal, the government will shut down Oct. 1. A shutdown seen as increasingly likely despite a debt ceiling deal earlier this year that set spending caps for the fiscal year.
A number of House Republicans are unhappy with that agreement and are now pushing for deeper cuts. But they have limited leverage with a Democratic majority Senate and with President Biden in the White House.
Democrats, who have generally benefitted politically from shutdowns driven by GOP demands for spending cuts, are already beginning to blame Republicans for the possibility of a shutdown.