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‘Gang of 5’ GOP lawmakers: ‘Shut the border down, or we’ll shut the government down’
January 3, 2024 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

House Republicans are warning Democrats that if they don’t follow the law and close the border, they will make good on their threat to shut the government down since they control the purse strings.

House Speaker Mike Johnson led a delegation of 60 lawmakers to the border to see the chaos there firsthand. The Biden administration has ushered in a tidal wave of millions of illegal immigrants who have inundated the country in an alleged attempt to shift the voting demographic in Democrats’ favor.

Republicans have had enough and have previously tied sending funding to Ukraine to shutting down the border.

Fox News’ Bill Melugin named a group of GOP lawmakers who he said have declared, “Shut the border down, or we’ll shut the government down. We control the money.”


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"Works for me."

For me, too.
But...
They don't have the intestinal fortitude.
Wait and see...

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Intestinal fortitude isn't the issue - having enough votes is.  And something tells me a group called the "Gang of Five" is going to fall just a bit short in terms of having enough.

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Intestinal fortitude isn't the issue - having enough votes is.  And something tells me a group called the "Gang of Five" is going to fall just a bit short in terms of having enough.

They had enough to knock off a Speaker... Let's see if that cost them power or increased it... One thing that people know for sure now is that they mean it.

As for me, more power to em.

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Shut it down.  Idle corrupt legisltors can't spend more.
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They had enough to knock off a Speaker... Let's see if that cost them power or increased it... One thing that people know for sure now is that they mean it.

As for me, more power to em.

Well, the difference is that the Democrats almost unanimously supported the efforts of a handful of dissenting Republicans to remove McCarthy as speaker.  Those same Democrats are not going to be joining these dissenting Republicans to stop all spending across the board.

What bugs me so much about things like this is that it is deliberate grandstanding with no hope of success. There is no way the Democrats are going to roll over and give Republicans everything they want on the border. What might have a chance of working is a negotiation where Republicans get at least some of what they're looking for on the border. But that kind of compromise can't happen when you have a handful of Republicans who will support only in all or nothing proposition.  That handful of holdouts outs will destroy the GOP leverage, and give the Democrats every incentive to hold out until enough moderate Republicans agree to pass a clean spending resolution with no border provisions at all.

If you want to keep the moderates on board, you can't make it in all or nothing proposition.
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I'm cool with that.  Let's hope these dogs have bite, as well as bark.
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