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The broken-down House of Representatives is heading into a fourth week of chaos and civil war, a limbo in which it can’t take any votes other than to elect a new speaker. That means the work they were supposed to be doing to pass the remaining eight appropriations bills isn’t happening, much less anything else.
The last thing they accomplished was the bipartisan continuing resolution that sparked extremists to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The funding in that resolution expires on Nov. 17, which was supposed to have given the House and Senate both time to finish all 12 appropriations bills and work out the differences between them so everybody could enjoy a long holiday season with no crises. Not that that was going to happen—the Republican House and Democratic Senate are far enough apart on everything from GOP poison-pill amendments to basic funding levels that the November deadline was already far too ambitious.
