Now, some Democrats are hoping to use a looming government shutdown as leverage amid the Trump administration’s unilateral efforts to dismantle entire agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In the last Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, regularly relied on Democrats to provide the votes necessary to avoid a government shutdown or a default on U.S. debt.
Two members of the progressive ‘Squad’ insist Democrats should not bail out House Republicans to prevent a government shutdown without significant concessions.
Omar is a member of the House Budget Committee and said that Democrats should block Republican attempts to slash the corporate tax rate.
As the Trump administration takes a slash-and-burn approach to the federal government, Ilhan Omar told The Independent ‘there’s no reason to help them out’.
