GOP Hardliners Got Their Shutdown

Politico: “Federal workers are still on the job. Unofficially, though, conservatives in Congress got what they wanted: The government did shut down in demonstrable and significant ways this fall — just not on Sept. 30.”

“After Kevin McCarthy essentially forfeited his speakership to avoid a government funding lapse, his ouster on Oct. 3 effectively closed Congress for business. Washington will wake up on Tuesday to 21 days of a speaker-less House, which has lopped off half the legislative branch while two wars rage overseas and the lower chamber’s GOP implodes.”