Okey doke.

 

Don't you hate it when your clever retort doesn't make it on the same page? It's happened to me.....damn!

 

Only a Trumptard could come up with such a bogus syndrome.

 

I not only think he's right I think the vast majority of Americans can see treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans cannot govern. And sure every body cusses the government from time to time but Americans do expect their government to work. So if their is a government shut down they will know enough to blame the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans who caused it.



Also take note of how Democrats are sticking to the theme of making the Crazy Caucus the face of the Republicans. And they could not have made it easier for them with MAGA. Which now stands for traitors, criminals, far right extremists and domestic terrorists.








Democratic Caucus chair says shutdown is looming because ‘the far-right is battling the extreme right’

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Joe Jacquez
Sun, July 30, 2023 at 7:13 PM MDT




Democratic Caucus Chair, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), said Congress is on a “collision course” towards a government shutdown because of the power dynamics at play in the House of Representatives.

Aguilar attempted to characterize two factions of the House GOP conference, the “far-right” and the “extreme-right” and blamed the internal battle taking place between the two groups for what he sees as the House’s inability to do their job.

“This is what House Republicans have done; They have created a scenario where the most extreme MAGA Republicans guide everything we do.

“Kevin McCarthy can’t pass appropriations bills, he can’t pass pieces of legislation without this core group of supporters, and so he has to do anything they want, including and up to impeachment,” Aguilar said in an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday.


Gripes from House conservatives about funding levels and policies forced Republican leaders to postpone votes on bills to fund agriculture and the FDA till September, which is yet another sign of a fractured caucus.


Aguilar said what House Democrats are most concerned about is a lack of time to avoid a shutdown. As he pointed out, only 12 legislative days remain until government funding runs out.

“That is where we are today,” Aguilar said. “Kevin McCarthy can’t control his own conference, and they continue to let the most extreme members guide everything they do.”

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Aguilar articulated this point further, saying, what he perceives as a lack of control by McCarthy, as “what’s so dangerous about impeachment discussions.”

Referring to talks of impeaching Biden, Aguilar echoed what many in his party have said.

“They don’t have any evidence against President Biden,” Aguilar said. “This is a complete distraction.”

McCarthy, on Monday, said he believes the House Oversight Committee’s investigations into the foreign business activities of Biden’s will rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry. Democrats and some Republicans criticized McCarthy’s comments, including Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who called impeachment talks, a “shiny object” to distract from negotiations about spending.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-caucus-chair-says-shutdown-011342130.html

 

The GOP has become the Isle of Misfit toys, where nothing functions properly and they are incapable of governing.

 

When was the last time a Republican congress presented and passed a program benefitting the people? Don't they have any ideas at all, ever?

 

The only thing Republicans can do is increase the debt. They cut taxes for the rich, shift the burden to the middle class, and then blame the poor and immigrants for lack of economic growth.

The most sophisticated economic model a Republican can grasp is the one where Joe Biden sets the price for a gallon of gas.

 

I actually think the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans will shut down the government. And if they do it will be another thing that costs them their majority in the House and increase the Democratic majority in the Senate.

Americans actually hate government shutdowns. And not just because it inconveniences them. They hate even the idea of it. Because nothing screams things are all fucked up louder than that. So go for it treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans.



House GOP worries that hardliners actually want a shutdown
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Sarah Ferris and Caitlin Emma
Thu, August 3, 2023 at 8:00 AM MDT




The entire GOP was listening closely when ultra-conservative Virginia Rep. Bob Good mused last week that if the government shuttered briefly this fall, “most Americans won’t even miss" it.

And when Good and his House Freedom Caucus colleagues helped derail one of the party’s spending bills just days later, Republicans grew more nervous that he was serious about his barely veiled threat.

“I worry about” a shutdown, said Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), a senior Republican appropriator. “I would like to think that we would have a moment of sobriety before we do something like that.”

Even as Speaker Kevin McCarthy and senior Republicans insist they won’t allow federal funding to lapse after Sept. 30, there’s rising angst within the party that its hard-right flank actually wants a shutdown. And even if Congress manages to pass a temporary spending patch to allow more time for negotiations, resistance from ultra-conservatives could make it extremely difficult to get anything close to a long-term spending deal.


Some of those same conservatives even shrugged off the threat of a catastrophic debt default this spring, though McCarthy and his GOP allies managed to steer the party away from that fiscal showdown. But now, hardliners' fierce determination to further cut spending has raised alarms among lawmakers in both parties that Congress could plunge into chaos for real this time.

Several other Freedom Caucus members, when asked about Good’s remarks, also wouldn’t rule out leveraging an October shutdown for steep cuts they’ve demanded in the 11 spending bills that still need to pass the House.

“I wouldn’t consign us to that just yet, I never take lightly that step,” said Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) when asked if the option was on the table.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), a Freedom Caucus member who landed a seat on the House spending panel this year, offered a similar response. He stressed that conservatives' goal for August was reducing the GOP’s spending target by another roughly $100 billion — a goal that has rattled his more senior appropriators.

“We’ll see how those negotiations go,” Clyde said. “I think folks in leadership are taking us seriously.”

The House GOP’s spending bills are already tens of billions of dollars lower than the targets of the debt deal negotiated by McCarthy and President Joe Biden, in addition to further savings that rely on billions of dollars in clawbacks known as “rescissions." But many conservatives have panned those rescissions as a gimmick that doesn’t amount to real funding cuts, so they’re pressing to further slash those bills before September.

Once they return from recess, House Republicans have 12 working days to try to pass 11 of their remaining bills before Sept. 30.

Senior Republicans, however, have chafed at the notion of hacking away at the measures they painstakingly crafted over the last several months.

“Obviously, you gotta get to 218 [votes]. You can’t cut programs to the bone and expect all the members to jump on,” Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) said of hardliner demands for more cuts. And he said it’s particularly tough to swallow when many are tossing out demands at the last minute, rather than offering early input: “We had member hearings. And no one showed up.”

Spending leaders like Joyce predict that Congress can still avoid late-September drama with help from Democrats — allowing McCarthy to pass a stopgap funding bill that staves off a shutdown for weeks or months. That measure could include some sweeteners for both parties, such as billions of dollars in disaster relief and additional Ukraine aid.

“I don’t think we’ll have a shutdown,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who oversees funding for the Interior Department and EPA. “Because I think we’re smarter than that. As Republicans, it’s never been good policy or politics if we get blamed for it. Why would you go down that road?”

But passing a stopgap with Democratic support will only further enrage McCarthy’s right flank, creating an even bigger headache for him as the House and Senate try to compromise on a slate of spending bills that would fund federal agencies at updated levels for the coming fiscal year.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), for example, said he is a “violent no” on any stopgap that funds the Department of Homeland Security without enacting a GOP plan to overhaul border and immigration laws.

Yet Congress will almost certainly need that kind of short-term bill next month. McCarthy said last week that he would only entertain the idea if the House were “making progress” in spending talks with the Senate. Meanwhile, bicameral talks on appropriations bills have yet to begin, and vast spending and policy differences between both chambers will prove extremely difficult to reconcile.

House Republicans are on a major collision course with the upper chamber, where Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and ranking member Susan Collins (R-Maine) have approved a dozen largely bipartisan spending bills in committee for the first time in five years. Contrary to the demands of House conservatives, those measures actually go above the spending levels set in the bipartisan debt deal, including $14 billion in emergency cash to bolster the Pentagon’s budget, among other agencies.

“Fuses are short” within the House Republican conference, said centrist Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.). And he doesn't expect going home for August recess will yield cooler heads.

“No, we are just ... catering to the fringe. It’s just irritating,” he said. “I feel like we’ve made a deal with the president. And yes, I would have liked to have had more cuts, but when you make a deal, you make a deal.”

Even one Freedom Caucus member acknowledged that the conservatives’ push for steeper spending cuts isn’t resonating more broadly with fellow Republicans, predicting “the potential for more division” in the coming months.

“I think there’s a very small group here that is willing to fight for that,” a dejected-sounding Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) said. “I know what we’re fighting for, we’re fighting to pump the brakes on out of control spending up here. ... But like I said, there’s no appetite for it.”

One veteran GOP lawmaker put it another way. Asked about Good’s comments downplaying the impact of a shutdown, Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas offered this retort: “The same critical crowd back home would say: 'if Congress went away, who would notice either?' But both are necessary.”

Lucas added: “I would ask all the folks who want to use this as an opportunity to blow the place up, if you succeed, what do you accomplish?”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-frets-spending-fight-140000059.html

 

Trump attempted the first coup in American history. Their is no doubt Trump tried to overthrow the results of a free and fair election. There is no doubt Trump incited an armed violent deadly insurrection., And he had the help of treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in congress.

So what is their answer?


DEFUND THE POLICE!!! DEFUND THE POLICE!!! DEFUND THE POLICE!!!

They are traitors to the United States of America and so is anyone who supports them.




Trump Indictment Presents New Obstacle in Spending Fight as Shutdown Looms
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Carl Hulse
Sat, August 5, 2023 at 8:06 AM MDT



Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during an Oversight and Accountability hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington on July 13, 2023. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

The political furor over the indictment this week of former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is spilling into the escalating congressional spending fight as conservatives, following the former president’s lead, take aim at federal law enforcement agencies, raising yet another obstacle to avoiding a government shutdown.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia Republican who has become a close ally of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, reacted to the indictment by vowing to try to cut funding for special counsel Jack Smith while suggesting she would oppose other law enforcement spending measures as well. With Republicans pressing for deep spending cuts and social policy requirements that have alienated Democrats, they will likely have only four votes in their own party to spare, meaning just a handful of defections could sink the bills.

“This is nothing but a political assassination, and I will not vote to fund a communist regime,” Greene said in a statement after the latest indictment of Trump, the front-runner in the Republican presidential primary race. “I will not vote to fund a weaponized government while it politically persecutes not only President Trump but all conservative Americans.”


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Her broadside echoed one by Trump himself, who after pleading not guilty in April to 34 felony charges in Manhattan alleging that he orchestrated a hush-money scheme to pave his path to the presidency and then sought to cover it up, called for cutting funding of the Justice Department on his social media platform.

“REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES,” he wrote then.

Any attempt by the House to do his bidding would be dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate and at President Joe Biden’s White House. But Republican unrest over the indictment appears to have injected a powerful new political incentive into the struggle over spending, increasing Republicans’ appetite for a shutdown fight. That could present a difficult new dynamic for McCarthy as he seeks to placate the conservative wing of his party while avoiding a lapse in government funding on Oct. 1.

A right-wing advocacy group with significant influence among the most conservative House Republicans has been clamoring for months for deep cuts and “systemic changes” to the FBI, an approach that could gain momentum in light of the indictment. Lawmakers who had been hesitant to slash the law enforcement budget may now be emboldened to do so.

“Ending the weaponization of the FBI means defunding the worst areas of corruption & the focus on intelligence that led it away from actual law enforcement,” Russ Vought, a former top Trump administration budget official who now leads the right-wing Center for Renewing America, wrote late last month on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Vought’s group called for more than $2.5 billion in FBI reductions — a nearly 25% cut. Those cuts would be far below the reductions House Republicans are considering in what is seen as an austere plan.

House Democrats uniformly oppose the emerging spending bills since they are below the spending levels agreed to by Biden and McCarthy in their deal to suspend the federal debt limit and contain numerous conservative policy riders they find objectionable.

Should conservatives prevail in their insistence on even deeper cuts and other restrictions on federal law enforcement, it could drive off more mainstream Republican votes. If conservatives such as Greene do not get what they want and oppose the legislation, McCarthy would face a painful dilemma: Either allow the spending measures to fail and force a government shutdown for which his party would almost certainly be blamed, or cooperate with Democrats to pass the bills and put his leadership position at risk.

The conservative animosity toward the FBI is a stark break with the traditional Republican orthodoxy of strong support for law enforcement. It has little traction in the Senate, where Democrats and Republicans have been working in a bipartisan fashion to advance spending bills for consideration when the Senate returns next month. Most senators of both parties would be opposed to entertaining the sort of spending reductions for law enforcement sought by House conservatives.

“I do not believe that there will be support in the Senate for defunding the FBI despite its mistakes outlined by the inspector general, nor do I believe that an effort to restrict the Department of Justice would be successful,” said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, referring to a 2019 report on the Justice Department’s investigation into links between Russia and Trump campaign aides in 2016. “Our country is experiencing a crime wave, and we are in the midst of a serious drug epidemic. We need more law enforcement officers, not fewer.”

But members of the Freedom Caucus and other hard-right lawmakers in the House say the Department of Justice’s pursuit of Trump and those arrested and jailed for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol are examples of how the FBI has lost its way following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which resulted in Congress granting it new powers.

“I’d like to take it back to a minimum, sort of pre-9/11 focus on crime and working with state and local jurisdictions to combat crime and not be so much dwelling on domestic terrorism,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the Freedom Caucus.

He and other conservatives are looking to at least block construction of an estimated $4 billion new FBI headquarters in the Washington suburbs, a project being hotly pursued by Democratic lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia.

The Center for Renewing America proposes steps well beyond blocking the headquarters. In a July 25 report, the organization called for significant changes in operational funding for the FBI, including eliminating all spending on the intelligence branch, saying the $1.9 billion arm of the FBI had become a domestic intelligence agency turned against “law-abiding Americans and those holding disfavored views.”

House Republicans were already struggling to win approval of their spending measures because of an internal divide over additional spending cuts sought by conservatives and abortion rights restrictions and other policy initiatives opposed by fellow Republicans.

When Congress returns in September, the House and Senate will have just a few weeks to try to pass their spending bills and reconcile their significant differences before the Sept. 30 deadline marking the end of the fiscal year, an outcome that seems highly unlikely.

To avoid a shutdown, Congress would then need to pass a stopgap spending bill, but even that temporary solution is no sure thing, given conservative demands for guarantees of deep spending cuts before moving forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-indictment-presents-obstacle-spending-140627605.html

 

'Get out': Donald Trump threatens House Republicans to impeach Biden or risk losing their jobs
Ken Tran, USA TODAY
Updated August 1, 2023·4 min read
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WASHINGTON − House Republicans have been talking a lot about impeaching President Joe Biden over what they say is his improper involvement in his family’s business dealings.

But with a long to-do list when lawmakers return to Washington after August recess, for now, it's all talk.

Former President Donald Trump however, is pressuring GOP lawmakers to put action behind their words and begin the impeachment process against Biden − or face electoral consequences.

“Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democratic fraud should be immediately primaried and get out,” Trump told supporters at a campaign rally Saturday in Erie, Pennsylvania. “We got a lot of good, tough Republicans around. People are going to run against them and people are going to win.”

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has dismissed the notion that he is facing pressure from the former president to go after Biden, calling an impeachment inquiry an appropriate course of action.

“If (the Biden administration) does not provide the information we need, then we would go to an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said at a news conference last week, referencing House Republicans' various investigations into whether Biden benefited from Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.

'They're trying to deflect': Democrats link GOP push to impeach Biden to Trump indictments


Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he enters the Erie Insurance Arena for a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election on July 29, 2023 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Republican lawmaker: Impeachment is walking 'the plank'
McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers are finding themselves in a political bind over Trump’s comments. House Republicans have roughly three weeks when they come back to Washington in September to approve must-pass spending bills, and an impeachment inquiry could take up valuable time needed to avoid a government shutdown.

There are also multiple House Republicans representing districts Biden won in the 2020 presidential election. Proceeding with an impeachment inquiry could put those vulnerable lawmakers in a politically fraught position heading into the 2024 election, something House GOP leaders want to avoid considering their razor-thin five-seat majority.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., warned that impeachment could force vulnerable members to “walk the plank.”

“Every time we walk the plank we are putting moderate members, members that won Biden districts, we are putting those seats at risk for 2024. We are putting the majority at risk,” Mace said on “Fox News Sunday.”


Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., holds a news conference as the House prepares to leave for its August recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2023.
Trump urges GOP lawmakers to fight back for him
Trump’s attempts to pressure House Republicans to impeach Biden comes as he faces a multitude of legal troubles, including a possible indictment for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

In the face of those legal woes, Trump has accused Biden and the Department of Justice of targeting him because he is the front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. As a result, Trump has implored GOP lawmakers to fight back on his behalf.

“They impeach me, they indict me,” Trump said at his rally in Erie. “And the Republicans just don’t fight the way … they’re supposed to fight.”

Republican leaders also face pressure from their right flank in the conference as members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus call for impeaching Biden.

“I don’t know how anyone, any objective reasonable person couldn’t come to the conclusion that this appears to be impeachment-worthy,” Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a member of the Freedom Caucus, said last week, reiterating unsubstantiated claims that Biden was involved as vice president in his son’s business dealings.

Related: Meet Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business associate answering questions in Congress


House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, R-Pa., left, and Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., clasp hands before denouncing the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process and so-called "woke" spending by Democrats and President Joe Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
House Republicans walk fine line between investigations and impeachment
Stuck between the former president’s warnings and the upcoming 2024 elections, GOP lawmakers are struggling between continuing to investigate Biden or swiftly moving to impeach the president.

“We’re working through the process, our constitutional duty to have oversight over the executive branch,” Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., chair of the Republican Study Committee, told reporters last week.

Hern said Republicans are thoroughly investigating whether the president had connections to Hunter Biden’s business dealings and said Democrats “jumped to conclusions” when they impeached Trump.

“The speaker has said that there may be an impeachment inquiry. That is not impeachment. That is Congress continuing its responsibilities to look into the issues that have been raised,” said Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., who represents a district Biden won in 2020.

“It’s just an ability to get more information,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said at a news conference last week, and an inquiry is “not in of itself an impeachment.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-threatens-house-republicans-040133957.html

 

Its going to be terrible for the country but probably pretty funny to watch when Americans see that treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are great at running around in circles with their hair on fire screaming hysterically . But cannot actually govern. And all President Biden and the Democrats have to do is stand back and watch.


House GOP moderates’ patience with conservative demands wearing thin
Emily Brooks
Wed, August 9, 2023 at 4:00 AM MDT·5 min read
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Moderate Republicans and those in competitive districts have largely lined up behind Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other GOP leaders as they have acquiesced to the evolving demands from hard-line conservatives.

But their patience is wearing thin.

“Here’s the deal. You’ve already used up the three genies that I have,” Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said. “From here on out, I’m gonna be taking care of home base.”

“The 2024 election cycle is shaping up to be one where it’s every man, woman and child for themselves. And a lot of members that are in tough seats,” Gonzales said.

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In a sign that the clashes between conservatives and more moderate Republicans could get more difficult to manage, House leaders punted floor consideration of an agriculture funding bill until after the August recess.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus and their allies had pushed for even lower spending levels and other policy reforms, while more moderate members took issue with those demands and a provision that would nullify a Biden administration rule expanding access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

But hard-line conservatives have for months kept up a successful pressure campaign to push the GOP’s slim majority further to the right.

GOP leaders accepted conservative demands to add culture war amendments on issues like abortion and diversity initiatives to the annual defense authorization bill — a move that sunk Democratic support for the traditionally bipartisan legislation.

After a conservative revolt over that shut down floor activity in June, the House Appropriations Committee agreed to craft appropriations bills at levels lower than the caps set out in the debt limit deal McCarthy struck with President Biden.

McCarthy has also inched closer to opening an impeachment inquiry into Biden in relation to the chamber’s probes of Hunter Biden’s foreign business activities, pleasing conservatives. But his cautious messaging has also gotten support from moderates who warn that rushing into impeachment could threaten those in swing districts.

It’s all added up to make the party’s vulnerable members increasingly nervous.

“If we keep members in swing districts — we put them on the plank every single week, we’re gonna have huge problems. And it may be too late for that,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said.

“There’s only so much people can take before they say enough is enough,” Mace said.

Democrats have already jumped on swing district Republicans for going along with some of those votes, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) frequently poking Republicans for voting to reverse the Pentagon’s policy to pay for travel expenses for servicemembers who seek abortions.

“It’s ridiculous for these Republicans to claim to be ‘moderates’ on abortion rights when they vote to pass far-right Freedom Caucus priorities that chip away at women’s freedoms and restrict access to abortion care,” DCCC spokesperson Nebeyatt Betre said in a recent statement specifically about freshmen New York Republicans. “Their phony rhetoric can’t hide their blatantly anti-choice voting record.”

Perhaps adding insult to injury, many of the messaging provisions they’ve been forced to take votes on, like the Pentagon abortion policy, are unlikely to make it into the final version of the bill approved by the Senate.

Still, vulnerable Republicans are staying on message.

“The one provision the other side is talking about is federal funding of abortion,” said Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), one of those New York first-term members. “We’ve said for years as a country, as a Congress, the federal government would not spend its resources funding abortion. They’ve changed their position.”

The week before the House left for a long recess, McCarthy brushed off a question about moderates who worry about appeasing the conservatives too much, saying the reporter had not quoted anyone specific.

And the week before that, he laughed in response to a question about the Freedom Caucus taking credit for forcing amendment votes on the defense bill, saying that he does not think the group is running the House.

The Speaker and other top Republicans have taken to teasing the press corps for writing about the divisions in the party that threaten their bills, saying disagreement is a normal part of the democratic process that comes with a more decentralized GOP leadership style.

“I begin to refer to them as the five stages of the D.C. press cycle of doubt,” McCarthy said at a recent press conference. “When I come in on Monday, the No. 1 question you ask me is not about policy, but can we pass it?”

“The doubt, despair of how great a challenge it will be to my speakership. After we pass it, you say, ‘That really wasn’t a big deal,’” McCarthy said — glossing over the fact the agriculture funding bill was forced to be delayed after internal disagreement.

Some Republicans are expressing confidence that important bills will not be pulled too far because of the will of the majority of the GOP and the House as a whole.

“The reality is, the majority of the conference is where they are. And as the amendment process plays out, as long as we have the ability to debate those issues on the floor and have our votes, I think we’ll do what we need to do,” Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) said.

Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) said he is open to hearing the opinions of “extremists on either side of the aisle,” but wants to make sure the majority view is respected as well.

“Whether you’re in highly competitive ones like mine, or whether you’re in solid red or blue ones, there’s still people in there that want to see government function and just being, you know, a naysayer to be a naysayer,” Nunn said. “Just being here so that you can have a Sunday morning talk show slot is not the way to govern.”

Hard-line conservatives, though, are not concerned about the gripes from moderates and vulnerable members.

Asked what he would say to moderates who are frustrated by the pressure from conservatives on spending bills and beyond, former House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) responded: “Now you know what I felt like for seven years when the moderates are trying to cram crap down my throat.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-moderates-patience-conservative-100000533.html

 

GOP leader so paranoid of losing majority he demands members not ride bikes and risk injury or death

Sarah K. Burris
August 14, 2023, 6:51 PM ET



Rep. Tom Emmer (Facebook)


Republicans in the House are so worried about their narrow majority they're warning members not to do any activities that could endanger themselves, Punchbowl's Jake Sherman said on Monday.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Republicans on a caucus conference call, "Please take care of yourselves. We do not need to lose anybody else."

He went on to explain that he saw Rep. James Comer (R-KY) biking over the weekend.

"Stay off the damn bike," Emmer said.

The House majority was already so small that Republicans have been unable to secure several pieces of legislation, including impeachment votes on President Joe Biden and others in his administration. Such legislation has been a major goal of many of the GOP leaders in the House like Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Comer.

Currently, the majority is held by a collection of Republicans that won in 2022, but won in districts that also voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. So, those members aren't sold on far-right bills like impeachment.

Among the upcoming legislation necessary is a budget bill that could result in another government shutdown.

As Emmer explained, even an injury that sends a member to the hospital could result in losing their majority.



https://www.rawstory.com/house-republicans-fear-injuries-majority/

 

House GOP eyes short-term spending stopgap to avoid shutdown
Emily Brooks
Mon, August 14, 2023 at 6:36 PM MDT·3 min read
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House Republicans are eyeing a short-term funding stopgap to keep the government open past the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 as lawmakers struggle through an appropriations process characterized by conservatives’ push to slash spending.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on a GOP conference call Monday evening that the House will likely have to pass a short-term solution known as a continuing resolution (CR), according to two sources on the call.

McCarthy said he does not want the CR to be jammed at the end of the year or stretch into the December holidays, the sources added.

But a CR likely won’t come easily.


Some members of the party’s right flank have stressed they will only vote for bills that set funding at fiscal 2022 levels, and a CR would keep spending the same as in fiscal 2023.

Border issues and Ukraine funding could also add wrinkles to passing the stopgap solution.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and 14 other Texas Republicans signed a letter last week pledging to vote against any bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security unless there are major changes to the U.S. border and migration policy. That would be more than enough opposition in a slim GOP majority to require Democratic votes to pass a continuing resolution.

And the White House last week unveiled a $40 billion supplemental funding request that includes $24 billion in military, financial and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, which is already sparking opposition from Republicans who have become critical of funding for Kyiv.

“While the border remains wide open, crime in major cities is out of control, and Americans cannot afford daily necessities — Biden wants $24 billion MORE for Ukraine. Put America first,” Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

One GOP member is pessimistic about government funding when lawmakers return to Washington in September.

“I just got off a member call – it’s clear President Biden and Speaker McCarthy want a government shutdown, so that’s what Congress will do after we return in September. Everyone should plan accordingly,” Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said on X.

House lawmakers have just 12 days in session before the Sept. 30 funding deadline.

The House has passed just one of 12 appropriations bills thus far: It cleared legislation to fund military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs and related agencies just before breaking for the long August recess. But that same week, House GOP leadership scrapped its plan to vote on a bill to fund agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration as intraparty differences put the measure in jeopardy.

House Democrats have opposed the GOP funding bills because the party marked the appropriations bills up at levels lower than spending caps agreed to by McCarthy and President Biden in a debt limit deal earlier this year.

The Senate — which has not passed any of its 12 appropriations bills — marked up its legislation at levels in line with the debt limit deal struck by McCarthy and Biden, putting the two chambers on a collision course that could bring the government to the brink of a shutdown.

But lawmakers have an incentive to fully fund the government by Jan. 1, due to a provision in the debt limit bill to slash discretionary spending across the board by one percent if Congress has not completed the spending bills.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-eyes-short-term-003630326.html

 

The reason funding is a problem is because of Republican tax cuts for the rich that began with Ronald Reagan. Republicans cut taxes for the rich and use the resulting deficits to try to cut or eliminate domestic spending programs they have never liked, but which have broad, popular support.

 

Conservatives already sounding alarms over prospect of a short-term spending bill
Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN
Tue, August 15, 2023 at 1:28 PM MDT·4 min read
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Reuters


A handful of conservatives in the House are already raising concerns about the length of a short-term budget fix after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday night in a conference-wide call that Republicans would need to pass a measure extending current spending levels in order to have more time to negotiate spending bills and avert a government shutdown.

McCarthy didn’t indicate how long of a short-term stop gap bill he’d want to pass, telling members Monday he wanted to avoid backing the deadline right up against the holidays, but some House conservatives are already making it clear they may not go along with any so-called continuing resolution – or CR – that is more than a few weeks or days.

In a statement to CNN, Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and member of the powerful House Rules Committee, said he would “under no circumstances” support a continuing resolution to fund the government at “the bloated, corrupt 2023 levels … and in particular, that funds (the Department of Homeland Security) and (Justice Department) without massive, immediate, actionable reforms.”

“This is especially true if it were to stupidly expire in December. I might-might support a short series of 24-hour CRs to create maximum pain for Congress to do its damned job, which by the way – we could be doing in Washington right now,” Roy said.


Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith, another conservative, told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday that he wouldn’t want a continuing resolution that went any longer than a matter of weeks, saying his preference was just two weeks.

“If we need a few weeks, I can probably live with that,” he said, adding that, “I think we should do two weeks and if we need to do another week after that, fine.”

He also told reporters that he would not want to attach more money for Ukraine to the short-term CR, saying it was an issue that should be debated separately. The White House has requested an additional $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for the country. The White House also requested billions in domestic disaster relief.

“I reserve the right to be inconsistent on this, but in a perfect world, they should be separate votes,” Griffith said. “You should not have the supplemental and the CR together.”

McCarthy could easily pass a continuing resolution with a bipartisan coalition of support in the House, and he may be forced to do so or risk shutting down the government, but the early warning shots from conservatives once again raises the question of how McCarthy will navigate a messy fall spending fight without angering his right flank. And this is just the short-term spending bill that will give leadership more time to negotiate a broader package of bills with the Senate. A larger year-long spending bill is going to be even more precarious to navigate.

In an early sign of the headwinds facing negotiators before the August recess, House leaders chose not to bring an agriculture spending bill to the floor after conservatives insisted on another $8 billion in cuts that could have hurt support among more moderate members. House leaders still have 11 appropriations bills to pass on the floor and that’s before they get to conferencing them with the Senate, which has moved its bills out of committee with bipartisan support and at much higher funding levels.

In his pitch to members Monday night, McCarthy tried to rally party unity, telling his conference that the Senate was passing its bills by huge bipartisan margins and encouraging his conference to unite swiftly when they return to Washington to have the best hand possible in negotiations with the upper chamber. But the early warnings from conservatives on even passing a short-term stopgap measure spells just how complicated the fall will be for McCarthy.

“What really worries me about this process is you have got speaker McCarthy being led around by the nose by his most extreme right wing elements,” Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told reporters on Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he “was glad,” to hear the reports that McCarthy was pushing his conference to agree to a short-term measure to keep the government open past September 30 and warned conservatives to fall in line.

“If we do this in a bipartisan way, I’m confident we can avoid a government shutdown,” Schumer, a Democrat from New York, told reporters on a call Tuesday morning. “If the House Republicans and the Freedom Caucus insists on doing this partisan, so it’s extreme and gets no Democratic votes, they’re heading us towards a shutdown.”

Schumer added that he thinks the funding extension should last until early December.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservatives-already-sounding-alarms-over-192811822.html

 

They'll keep kicking this particular can down the road and the despicables will keep spending away until our economy collapses.
And the fuckers in Congress will just smirk and take their riches and move on.
Fuckers

 

Beginning with the Reagan administration Republicans have cut taxes for the rich and used the resulting increases in the national debt to try to cut or eliminate domestic spending that they never liked, but knew were popular with the voters.

 

So, the government is about to shut down and McCarthy is taking time off? If he doesn't want to do the job, then get someone in there that does!

 

Then get back to work and do something about it! But hey, you guys would rather take the time off, while you complain about how bad things are!

Fucking Republicans!