Further illustrating Speaker pro tem Kevin Meow-arthy‘s incompetent management of the House, the New York Times reports that in the last hours of the session before Congress is scheduled to begin a six-week recess, House Republicans attempted to pass a critical $25 billion funding bill for the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration–y’know, nothing critical; just the people who safeguard our food supply–but could not come to an agreement because the far-right wing of the caucus demanded the legislation include provisions to bar organizations that provide abortions from benefiting from the bill.
Instead of telling the anti-choice zealots that the bill is for vital services from the Department of Agriculture, McCarthy and GOP leaders decided to table the bill until after the recess, adding another essential bill to the pile that needs to be passed by October 1st. The sheer volume of bills needing floor votes combines with the insolence of the far right-wing makes a government shutdown more likely in the fall.