President Joe Biden has criticized House Republicans and their “brinkmanship,” saying that he is “sick and tired” of it.
Biden’s comments follow the United States government narrowly avoiding a government shutdown after both the House and the Senate passed a continuing resolution, with Biden signing it late Saturday evening. In a speech from the White House on Sunday, Biden criticized House Republican lawmakers, claiming that “MAGA extremists” brought the government to the brink of a government shutdown.
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“Enough is enough is enough!” Biden said. “This is not that complicated. The brinkmanship has to end, and there shouldn’t be another crisis. There’s no excuse for another crisis.”
President Biden: “I’ve never quite seen a Republican Congress, or any Congress, act like this… Enough is enough. This is not that complicated. The brinksmanship has to end. There’s no excuse for another crisis.” pic.twitter.com/SY2rnhcQl3
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 1, 2023
Biden also encouraged House Republicans to get to work on passing a yearlong budget agreement and “honor the deal we made a few months ago.” He also called the U.S.’s economy “the indispensable” in the world, and asked lawmakers to treat it as such.
“Stop the games,” Biden said. “Get to work. Make sure the American people and our allies and friends around the world know what we’re doing.”
The resolution signed by Biden gives Congress 45 extra days to pass its annual appropriations bill to renew funding for the next fiscal year. The continuing resolution includes all of Biden’s $16 billion supplemental request for disaster relief and funds the government at fiscal 2023 levels.
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized the continuing resolution, saying it was simply “pushing the snooze button” on the situation. While he did vote to keep the government open, Fetterman noted that he is “done normalizing this dysfunction.”
The government has not shut down since the December 2018 shutdown, which lasted 35 days, ending in January 2019. The last year that Congress completed all appropriation bills on time was 1996.
