All he has to do is not bring these steaming piles to the floor, but he just can’t resist bending over for the borg.
There are more than enough members of Congress to pass these bills. The fact that you even have to tell him to block them from a floor vote shows how powerless the Speaker is when the majority party has no unified mandate.
His other choice was to shut down the government. This is campaign season. My gut tells me he didn’t want to give the Dems a campaign talking point.
The question now is will the GOP use this to their advantage - the Dems are wrecking this country, they are spending recklessly, and they don’t reciprocate “bipartisanship” they sit on bills like HR2 leaving the border wide open and causing more inflation and all kinds of risks - drugs, criminal gangs, rape and murder, diseases and even potential terrorism. We are now involved in 3 theaters of warfare. The Dems are dangerous and the GOP needs a mandate for change. I sure hope they can flip this into a win. And then, actually govern like winners.