Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: The agreement on a $1.7 trillion deal to fund the federal government reflects the fear that the narrow GOP majority in the House might be unfit to govern and is prepared to engage in reckless brinkmanship.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was able to visit Washington in triumph on Wednesday because Senate Republican leaders decided they could not trust their party’s new majority in the House to deliver a budget — without delays and drama — that included the help Ukraine needs.The agreement between top Senate Republicans and House and Senate Democrats on a $1.
Those final words made clear that, for many Republicans, particularly in the House, the moral argument for supporting a democratic nation against a despotic invader is not a sufficient rationale for U.S. action.In urging the Senate to “send President Zelensky back to Ukraine” with the assistance his country requires, Majority Leader Charles E.
McCarthy is still scrambling for right-wing votes to secure the majority he needs to become speaker. So to bring conservative hard-liners to his side, he has been over-the-top in condemning his Senate colleagues.McCarthy pledged on Twitter on Tuesday that if the Senate approved the new budget, even Republican-authored Senate bills “would be dead on arrival” in the House next year.
Among the Republicans victories: big increases in defense spending and the bill’s failure to provide additional money the Biden administration says it needs to combat covid-19. Shamefully, the agreement failed to restore even a pared-down expansion of the poverty-fighting child tax credit.Still, the negotiations reflect what governing looks like when competing political parties decide that compromise in the name of economic stability and foreign policy responsibility is no vice.
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