US Democrats Commit Suicide with Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Shut Down of US Government in November?
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The gladiators on the Colosseum on Capitol Hill in Washington DC do not fail to entertain – killing even themselves.
After the ouster of its speaker on 3 October 2023, House of Congress closed for the rest of this week. Even theoretically, a new speaker cannot be found before Wednesday next week.
But that is only theoretically. In practice, it will easily be a month or more before House Republicans can agree on a new speaker. The former speaker Kevin McCarthy was only elected after no less than 15 ballots, and this time it may be even more difficult. McCarthy was yesterday ousted by eight House Republicans because he did not carry through with the move to withhold funds for the US government and shut it down.
A new speaker will not get the votes of these eight House Republicans, unless he/she is declaring his/her willingness to do exactly that. In other words: When the stopgap funding of the US government ends 17 November 2023, there may very well be no new funding and the US government will have to shut down.
And in the meantime, and thereafter, there will also still be no funds for Ukraine. Ukraine will run out of funds in this coming month, and with no funds even for the US government in sight, it is unlikely that Ukraine will ever get the funding from the US it used to.
House Democrats voted as a block together with the eight activist House Republicans to oust Speaker McCarthy. That was an emotional move by impotent Democrats and not a wise decision. The House Democrats have now thrown their own government into a chaos which is likely to last the next month, if not for longer. In effect, the House Democrats have put the US government in peril of having to be shut down on 17 November 2023 when the temporary funding ends. And with that, of course also shutting down their own US proxy government of Ukraine with no funds.
The US Democrats have just committed suicide in public.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
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