'We're going to see some Republican-on-Republican violence': NYT congressional reporter
The battle for the next budget bill is being entirely played out among Republicans with three factions trying to get the upper hand and it will not end well for the Republican Party.
That is the opinion of New York Times congressional reporter Luke Broadwater who told the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," he expects war will break out between the multiple factions within the House GOP caucus.
As he noted, the far-right Freedom Caucus is demanding massive cuts to entitlements which is angering moderate Republicans in districts that could easily flip, thus putting them out of a job when the midterm elections roll around.
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Hovering over all of that are demands Donald Trump is making of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) who is trying to hold the GOP caucus together knowing he can ill afford to lose more than two votes on any deal.
According to Broadwater, "You have a lot of competing priorities in Congress, right? You have those blue state Democrats that you just mentioned and blue state Republicans that you just mentioned who want to see the state and local tax deduction be greater so there's less of a tax burden on their citizens."
"So look, all these people are going to be weighing in, they're going to be fighting over this," he later added. "You have the Freedom Caucus at the same time insisting on these $2 trillion in cuts and the president wants his big tax cuts, $4.5 trillion."
"So, you know, and it's like a 1 or 2 seat majority at any moment, depending on who's there and who's sick and who's out of town, so you lose 1 or 2 Republicans and you can't get the bill passed," he explained. "So yeah, look, I expect this to be a long, protracted fight. I expect it to get ugly and, you know, we're going to see some Republican-on-Republican violence."
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