"The Republicans’ willingness to invent a new reason [i.e., border security] for their threatened government shutdown suggests it was never about principle so much as about power. They are quite aware that the cuts the extremists are proposing before they will agree to fund the government are unpopular, so they have manufactured another reason for the shutdown that they hope will be more palatable to the country."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Republicans #shutdown

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-27-2023