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<p>Since <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> took the gavel in January, the deeply divided House GOP has existed in a state of cognitive dissonance.</p>
<p>Republican leadership assured members they would only <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-bad-news-that-so-many-in-the-gop-are-pissed-about-averting-a-shutdown">fund the government through conservative spending bills</a>, and that a Democratic Senate and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> would bend to the GOP’s will—or Republicans would use a government shutdown to bend them to their will.</p>
<p>Republican leadership said the party would <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-republicans-playing-politics-with-ukraine">pass more Ukraine aid</a>, an idea supported by Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, while conservative voters—and the House lawmakers who represent them—<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-republicans-playing-politics-with-ukraine">fiercely turned on the notion</a> of another cent for Ukraine.</p>
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Republican leadership said the party would pass more Ukraine aid, an idea supported by Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, while conservative voters—and the House lawmakers who represent them—fiercely turned on the notion of another cent for Ukraine.
