The danger of Meadows ending up as the White House Chief of Staff stems mainly from the fact that Donald Trump is neither especially bright nor especially interested in his job. In 2013, Meadows drafted and organized a letter signed by 79 Republican lawmakers which called upon then-Speaker John Boehner to “affirmatively de-fund the implementation and enforcement of ObamaCare in any relevant appropriations bill brought to the House floor” - a stance which guaranteed a government shutdown because President Obama would never sign such a bill.Īs the Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe noted, “by the time the shutdown began in October, Meadows had been labeled a chief architect of the strategy.” The Freedom Caucus is a group of hardline Republican members of Congress famous for sabotaging legislative negotiations with inflexible demands.
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