House GOP leaders sending members home for the week amid deep divisions and looming shutdown

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The question I have is why are House members being sent home for the weekend?

The most optimistic interpretation is that they're getting off the floor so that deals can be struck "behind closed doors" and then hopefully come back with an actual solution.

The most likely reason is that representatives are lazy fucks who only actually work like 50 days out of the year

They have such hard lives. They deserve a long weekend, no?

/s

I'm under the impression they know they need several days to get the votes they need. (Hint: they aren't going to get them in time and we're going into shutdown mode)