McCarthy has only himself to blame, writes Schoen.
He caved to his far-right members to secure the Speakership, and now those members are demanding draconian spending cuts.
Something similar happened in June, “when a fight over the U.S. debt ceiling ended in an 11th-hour deal, avoiding an unprecedented national default.”
But this time is different.
Far-right members “have made clear that this time, it’s all or nothing.”
Schoen thinks McCarthy should consider how government shutdowns have historically turned out, particularly the 1995-96 shutdown, which did not end well for Republicans.
He writes that McCarthy “can either risk his own position to save his party and his country or save himself at the expense of the two. The right choice…couldn’t be clearer.”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
