“Kevin McCarthy faces an unenviable choice this week: keep his job as speaker, or team up with Democrats to keep the government from shutting down,” NBC News reports.
“Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and other conservative hard-liners are threatening to overthrow McCarthy if he works with Democrats to pass a short-term, stopgap measure to keep the government open.”
“But McCarthy may have to do just that, putting a continuing resolution, or CR, on the floor in the coming days if he wants to stave off a highly disruptive shutdown when money for the federal government runs out at midnight Saturday. A shutdown would have far-reaching consequences, halting paychecks for hundreds of thousands of troops, border agents and other federal workers.”
