CaliCarol<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>memeorandum</span></a></span> </p><p>At this point my thesis is that they are trying to cut their way out of having to increase the debt ceiling, which they've already pushed back 6 months. Which further exposes the strategic blunder that was Chuck Schumer's capitulation on the CR. </p><p>It won't work forever so I'm not sure what the end game is. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SchumerHasToGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SchumerHasToGo</span></a></p>