As Sword Of Damocles Falls Upon Former Speaker McCarthy, Can The House GOP Still Unite Behind A New Speaker? ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The legislation would have reduced discretionary spending by 8.13 percent -- a $129 billion reduction -- for Fiscal Year 2024 which began Oct. 1 and completed construction of 900 miles of border wall begun by former President Donald Trump prior to 2021, up from 700 miles under current law and waiving regulatory barriers to construction, expanded the Border Patrol to 22,000, implemented Operation Stonegarden to give $100 million of grants to local law enforcement to coordinate with the Border Patrol, prohibited the entry of aliens arriving in between ports of entry, provided access to the Border Patrol of the criminal history databases of all countries of origin and transit for aliens, added more exclusions to the asylum process, limits asylum seeking to ports of entry, among other provisions.
45% : If it had passed, of course, the Senate would have never agreed to it and the government might be shut down right now, pending a negotiation over what to include, giving House Republicans an opportunity to make the case for border security and holding the line on sequestration to the American people, and if they had held the line, likely to be included in the year-end omnibus bill or if some number of the 12 appropriations bills were completed.
35% : On the other hand, if Democrats wind up in control of the House or if a more liberal Republican becomes Speaker -- meaning no shutdown, no fight over border security, no impeachment and perhaps no budget sequestration -- Gaetz will be blamed.
29% : If the House winds up with a more conservative Speaker that can still deliver the Biden impeachment inquiry, border security provisions in the year-end spending bill(s) and hold the line on sequestration, then Gaetz might be vindicated, even if the outcome might not have been much different than if had McCarthy still been Speaker.

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