I spoke to Jeff Stein of the Washington Post about the looming Seinfeld shutdown.
Some Republican strategists have complained about Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), one of the most bombastic GOP holdouts, who recently sent a fundraising email that blamed McCarthy for the potential shutdown.
“Gaetz is threatening the speaker’s job if he works with Democrats, while leaving no choice to but to rely on Democratic votes,” said Liam Donovan, who worked for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “The entire exercise is designed to fail. It’s all impressively nihilistic.”
GOP hardliners aren’t negotiating with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as government shutdown looms. Government Relations Strategist Liam Donovan joins The Dispatch to break down how we got here and: -Ukraine’s funding -Senate pushing a Continuing Resolution to stave off a shutdown -McCarthy’s House resistance -Gaetz pushing for a betrayal
This week I joined my old NRSC colleague Ron Steslow along with Andy Kroll from ProPublica and Romina Boccia from the Cato Institute to discuss the week in political news.
I can't think of a better metaphor for what's going on here than Legislative Saw ???? pic.twitter.com/66C6NLPuDa
While lawmakers argued over the federal budget, our national debt passed $33 trillion dollars this week.
On this week’s roundup, host Ron Steslow and guests Liam Donovan (Principal at Bracewell LLP), Andy Kroll (Investigative Reporter at ProPublica), and Romina Boccia (Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy at the Cato Institute) discuss why it’s significant and break down the fighting within the Republican party as they argue over a budget.
Then they break down how the auto worker strike has Joe Biden caught between two key democratic constituencies
They also discuss the migrant crisis in New York City and how it’s growing rifts in the Democratic party
Finally, they look at Biden’s defiance in the wake of a Federal Appeals Court ruling that said his Administration likely violated the First Amendment and his campaign’s alarming move to combat what it’s calling “political misinformation.”
This week on SiriusXM‘s The Trendline I spoke to host Kristen Soltis Anderson about the overlapping drama unfolding in Washington between the impeachment inquiry and the looming threat of a government shutdown.
On the funding issue, what's most striking is the massive disconnect between the obvious strategic inanity of a shutdown under these circumstances and the rational individual incentives that are on the verge of compelling one. pic.twitter.com/Pv1R9KDeOZ
A tweet of mine showed up in today’s Axios‘ Sneak Peak newsletter focused on House Republicans’ appropriations messiness.
Between the lines: “The more dysfunctional the House is, the more it empowers the Senate to determine what becomes law,” tweeted Liam Donovan, a GOP consultant who closely tracks the House’s right-wing bomb-throwers.
If the Freedom Caucus truly opposed an omnibus, Donovan suggested, members would support whatever appropriations bills could get 218 votes to pass.
“In reality, failure is preferable to incremental victory because it validates” their view that both the Republican and Democratic establishment are corrupt and content with the status quo,Donovan said.
