With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan — a task that looks increasingly difficult amid stubborn divisions in the party over federal spending.
Federal agencies are making plans for a shutdown that would shutter government services and halt paychecks for millions of federal workers and military troops.
It’s a disruption that Johnson — just two weeks into his job running the House — has said he wants to avoid. Yet House lawmakers left Washington for the weekend without a plan in hand after several setbacks. Johnson is still sounding out support among Republicans about what to do and is expected to unveil funding legislation over the weekend, according to Republicans granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
It didn’t, but they will do it again.
Much like a child who throws tantrums, and whose parents have given into tantrums in the past, once the parents stop giving in to the tantrums and holds firm, the child will have an “extinction burst” of the tantrum behavior trying to see if continuing to do what used to work to get what they wanted will still work.
Since Republicans are really all petulant children who never grew up, it stands to reason that they are doing an extinction burst of behavior that worked in the past, trying to get past results.
They are ignoring that this stopped working like ten years ago.