McCarthy Tries to Shift Blame for Shutdown

“Facing a potential government shutdown in four days triggered by House Republicans’ inability to unite to pass spending bills, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is trying out a new strategy: shifting the blame,” the Washington Post reports.

“While there’s no reliable polling yet on which party voters would blame more for a government shutdown, many Republicans privately worry it will be theirs.”

“McCarthy is starting to point fingers at Democrats in a bid to pin a shutdown on disagreements over border security. It’s an attempt to rewrite the record of the past several weeks, during which House Republicans have been unable to pass a short-term bill to prevent a shutdown — even one that includes the border security policies his conference overwhelmingly supports.”

NBC News: McCarthy says a meeting with Biden on the shutdown and the border would be “important.”