This week’s political assassination of Speaker Kevin McCarthy has weakened the Republicans – and Trump knows it.
Otto Von Bismarck, the 19th-century Prussian chancellor who unified Germany, once reportedly remarked that “laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made”.
Gaetz is right in his recent criticism of US government’s ballooning debt, and he was right to rail against the way the Congress has previously handled budgets. But his motivation for removing McCarthy is more likely about a looming Congressional ethics committee investigation into his personal behaviour, a potential run for governor of Florida, and his fundraising efforts , than it is about his deep and abiding concern for the US budget.
Crucially last week, McCarthy was able to navigate the divide by getting last-minute support to delay a potential shutdown of the US government for 45 days while a longer-term solution to the budget crisis was found. Jim Jordan was a co-founder of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus and is a vocal defender of Donald Trump. He was one of the architects of the US government’s longest shutdown and won’t feel pressure to compromise to keep the US open for business. He will want to end or offset financial support for Ukraine. If funding stops, it will have huge implications for Europe and could shift the West’s reliance on the United States as defender in chief.
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