by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse
For those who walk the deep weeds of internecine politics, we notice there is an influential component of the Sea Island group still at work within the GOP.
The same Republican “conservatives” who voted to suspend the debt ceiling issue for Joe Biden (Chip Roy, Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace et al), refused to stop the issue of the debt ceiling from surfacing during the Donald Trump administration.
At a certain point we must accept there are elements within the republican apparatus who intend to disrupt President Trump even though they present a false face.
The short-term spending bill has punted the issues of government funding into March 2025. The package passed 366-34, with the support of 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans.
The good news is that most of the hidden non-spending aspects were removed in the much shorter CR extension. The provisions which shielded the administrative state, approximately 1,000 pages of self-interested regulation, were removed. However, the debt ceiling conflict will rise again and could potentially present a problem because they will be attached to future legislative negotiations on Trump policy.
The House “Freedom Caucus” is essentially the voice and mechanism for…
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