The federal government is set to run out of money in two days’ time and, as Ted Kennedy might have muttered to himself half-consciously while stumbling into the Chappaquiddick police station after drowning Mary Jo Kopechne: “This may not end well.”
The issue of the month, and the focal point around which this latest stanza of the recurring D.C. budget battle royale is unfolding, is immigration. Suffice it to say that there is no issue (with the possible exception of healthcare) more manifestly well-suited for an all-out Republican Party capitulation than the immigration issue. The Democrats want their legislative codification of Barack Obama’s (lawless) DACA amnesty. The Republicans pay nominal lip service to border security and incremental reforms toward a more merit-based legal immigration regime. We know how this story ends.
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