White patriarchal desperation in action… it will either bring the country down or be put to bed for a long time to come…

September 18, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson

Extremists in the Freedom Caucus insist they will not agree to any budget that accepts the deal McCarthy cut with Biden. In addition, although appropriations bills are traditionally kept clean of volatile issues, the extremists have loaded up this year’s appropriations bills with so-called poison pills: rules that advance their attempt to impose their ideology on the country but are unacceptable to Democrats.