Marjorie Taylor Greene

The United States government is headed toward a shutdown thanks to infighting and dysfunction among Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Politico reports that there is some dismay among some House Republicans over the way that things are headed.

"The View" opened with a video of Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-UT) announcing Thursday that he won't run for re-election – and then considered what the traditional GOP politician is being replaced with.

The co-hosts compared Romney and older Republicans to the new, younger leaders like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Republicans in the House of Representatives need to pass a package to fund the American military this month -- but Politico's Playbook reports that they're on the verge of blowing it.

According to Playbook, the proposed $826 billion Pentagon funding bill – which was already seen as dead-on-arrival in the Democratic Senate given its right-wing culture-war provisions related to abortion – has already become "collateral damage" thanks to hardliners in the conference insisting on even deeper spending cuts to the federal budget in exchange for their votes.

Former President Donald Trump is talking with House GOP leadership about a strategy for impeaching President Joe Biden, reported Politico on Tuesday.

Trump, "Has been speaking weekly with House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, who was the first member of Republican leadership to come out in support of impeachment." The pair spoke most recently Tuesday, shortly after McCarthy announced the impeachment investigation would be moving forward.

Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations, said that Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised he would hold an impeachment vote on President Joe Biden before moving forward.

Once the moment came, however, no vote happened.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he was moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, despite the fact that the Republicans' investigations have so far turned up no proof linking the president to his son's overseas business dealings.

Many political observers on Twitter jumped to ridicule McCarthy for caving to the demands of former President Donald Trump and his allies to launch what they see as a flimsy impeachment inquiry.

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) found themselves getting into a dispute on Tuesday over who should get the most credit for the Republican-run House of Representatives launching an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.

The trouble started when Gaetz took to Twitter to crow about the role he played in lobbying House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden, despite the fact that Republican investigations so far have uncovered no concrete proof that he benefited from his son Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is expected to endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this week in a bid to relieve pressure from right-wing lawmakers in his caucus.

However, Politico's Playbook is reporting that this may not save McCarthy from political turmoil as members of the House Freedom Caucus may still shut down the federal government regardless.