A brief government shutdown is possible over the weekend, GOP senator says
From CNN s Ali Zaslav and Manu Raju
Sen. John Thune speaks during a news conference following the weekly meeting with the Senate Republican caucus at the Capitol on December 15, in Washington, DC. Rod Lamkey/Getty Images
Senate Majority Whip John Thune said it s possible a brief government shutdown could occur over the weekend because it could be difficult to pass a stopgap spending bill before the Friday midnight deadline.
“I know people who are gonna object to that, that want to keep pressure on the process until we get a deal. So, it would take consent obviously to do a short term CR,” the South Dakota Republican told reporters Thursday.
I’m “not ready” to be Speaker but Pelosi and Schumer need to go, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.
In an interview with The Intercept’s podcast, the progressive stupid woman said that Democrats have failed to create a succession plan once Pelosi and her generation of longtime leaders step aside. Pelosi has indicated that this upcoming two-year term will be her last as Speaker.
“I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party … the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there’s very little option for succession,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who is 31. “It’s easy for someone to say, ‘Oh well, you know, why don’t you run?’ but the House is extraordinarily complex, and I’m not ready. It can’t be me. I know that I couldn’t do that job.
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One day in the autumn of 1967, the Berkeley sociologist Nathan Glazer visited Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He was there to debate the community activist Saul Alinsky. The subject was the New Left. Glazer was a well-known critic of the radical politics then making its way through American social, cultural, and educational institutions. But he was no stranger to radicalism itself.
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