I blame McCarthy. Not Gaetz, not MAGA hardliners, it is McCarthy who won't allow a bipartisan solution because he is afraid of them. Calling for votes on the senate stopgap or a clean CR and he will lose the speakership and he knows it. Both would pass by bipartisan votes, but he knows he won't be speaker anymore so he won't put them up for a vote.
I blame McCarthy. Not Gaetz, not MAGA hardliners, it is McCarthy who won't allow a bipartisan solution because he is afraid of them. Calling for votes on the senate stopgap or a clean CR and he will lose the speakership and he knows it. Both would pass by bipartisan votes, but he knows he won't be speaker anymore so he won't put them up for a vote.