The House and Senate might not be able to agree to terms to fund the federal government by the Sept. 30 deadline, and that’s OK to an influential bloc of hard-line House conservatives who are playing an outsize role in both the spending process and the fate of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership.
But that’s collective punishment. Not everyone is trying to sabotage things.
Ideally the voters would have the intelligence to recognize which politicians are acting in good faith and which are not, with only the bad faith obstructionist being voted out (ideally immediately, without having to wait the potentially years till their term is up). But ehhhh, we know how that goes.