The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday called the Republicans’ stopgap funding fight “fanatic-on-fanatic violence,” calling out his colleagues for not being able to agree on what he said were two extreme views.
“There's nothing funny about it, you know, and it is serious business, but it just amuses me that, let's just call them the extremists within the Republican party, can't even decide on how they want to be extreme together. I thought of it as sort of fanatic-on-fanatic violence last night,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said at The Hill’s Future of Defense Summit, which was sponsored by Lockheed Martin.
House Republicans on Wednesday evening shot down their........