#chaoscaucus — Public Fediverse posts

Fine by me, it’s a crap bill for the people.

#FarRight #Republicans on the #House #Budget Cmte on Friday blocked their own party’s megabill from reaching the floor, citing concerns that the #legislation to fulfill #Trump’s domestic agenda would add too much to the #deficit.

5 Republicans—Chip Roy (TX), Ralph Norman (SC), Josh Brecheen (OK), Andrew Clyde (GA), & Lloyd Smucker (PA)—joined #Democrats in voting against the legislation 16 to 21.

#USpol #ChaosCaucus #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/house-republicans-policy-bil.html?smid=url-share

In an attempt to avoid a #GovernmentShutdown at the end of next week, #Trump & #House Speaker #MikeJohnson are pitching a #stopgap bill that would keep federal dollars flowing through Sept 30. Trump & Johnson are embracing it as a way to avoid a politically damaging shutdown fight among #Republicans while still giving Trump wide latitude to slash spending on his own in defiance of #Congress & the #law.

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-johnson-republicans-spending-bill.html?smid=url-share

The #Republican controlled #House voted Thurs to #censure Rep #AlGreen (D-Texas) for disrupting #Trump’s *address to #Congress* on Tues.

The resolution to censure Green, introduced by Rep #DanNewhouse (R-Washington), accuses Green of "a breach of proper conduct.”

Green, in a social media post shared Thurs morning, said he was being punished for “standing up to President Trump.”

#RepublicansAreADisgrace #ChaosCaucus #ClownCaucus #TrollCaucus #USpol

But up against the Sept 30 #shutdown deadline—& mired w/disputes within his conference—#MikeJohnson brokered a deal w/ #Senate Maj Ldr #ChuckSchumer & House #Democrats to dodge what could have been a politically costly outcome.

#Republicans face dubious odds to maintain control of their slim #House majority, & a shutdown, which would shutter some vital govt services ahead of Nov’s elections, could have put #GOP candidates in jeopardy.

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #VoteBlue
#Congress

The package represents a setback for #House Speaker #MikeJohnson & his #Republican conference, which spent the past 2 wks demanding a longer funding bill w/unrelated #legislation attached requiring proof of #citizenship to #vote in federal elections [an unnecessary redundancy since it is already a requirement to vote in federal elections that you be a citizen.]

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #VoteBlue
#Congress

Congressional leaders reach deal to avert shutdown, boost Secret Service funds

#Congress on Sunday agreed to a deal to avert a looming #GovernmentShutdown, advancing just a 2-month stopgap spending agreement w/ emergency #funding for the #SecretService & w/o the harsh #voter registration #restrictions demanded by #Trump.

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/22/government-shutdown-deal-budget/

Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.

And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.

#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown

#Democrats are expected to propose a 3-month extension of current #funding, known as a continuing resolution or #CR, which #pragmatic #Republicans unwilling to #shutdown the #government support.

#Defense hawks had voiced worries that a 6-month spending bill would hamstring #NationalSecurity spending, preferring a shorter extension that would give #Congress more time to agree on new spending levels for the rest of the fiscal year.

#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #HouseRepublicans

#Trump may have thrown off those plans w/a Wednesday afternoon social media post 🙄 demanding that #Republicans include the #voting registration bill…in a #funding package, or force a #GovernmentShutdown.

“BE SMART, REPUBLICANS, YOU’VE BEEN PUSHED AROUND LONG ENOUGH BY THE DEMOCRATS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN,” the idiot wrote.

#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #HouseRepublicans #GovernmentShutdown #MikeJohnson #government #shutdown

#Republican leaders knew they had probably set up the vote to #fail. 2 people familiar w/ #MikeJohnson’s thinking said #Republicans are expected to blame #Democrats [who do NOT control the #House, so good luck w/that] & the handful of #GOP colleagues who tanked their bill as the reason Johnson must now pivot & begin negotiations [beggar] w/a #Democratic-led #Senate.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown #Republicans

#Funding for the federal #government expires Sept 30, & w/o an extension, most federal govt operations would shut down Oct 1 as millions of #Americans begin early #voting in Nov’s #election.
Wed’s result—a 220-202 vote w/2 voting present—was hardly in doubt. #GOP lawmakers from across the ideological spectrum had said publicly for more than a week that they opposed the #legislation. But #MikeJohnson has insisted there is “no Plan B” to prevent a #shutdown if the bill fails. .

#law #ChaosCaucus

#MikeJohnson’s bill, which combined a 6-month extension of federal funds at current spending levels w/a measure the #House already passed requiring proof of #citizenship to register to #vote in national #elections. The Democratic-controlled #Senate & the White House oppose the House bill, because of the length of the extension & because of the registration provisions.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown #Republicans

#House votes to reject #GOP bill to avert #GovernmentShutdown

The House on Wed rejected Speaker #MikeJohnson’s plan to fund the govt for 6 months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching #government #shutdown deadline not only throughout #Congress but also w/in #Republicans’ House majority.

14 #Republicans joined w/ #Democrats [sick of doing the GOP’s work for them & who objected to racist additions to the bill] to block it.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/18/house-bill-government-shutdown-funding/

“You had 12 #jurors come to a #unanimous conclusion, & the former president was #guilty of 34 #felonies, & that, that somehow is indication of weaponization when that was a #state prosecution that had nothing to do w/President #Biden or the Dept of #Justice,” Jeffries said. “The American people understand that we need more common sense & less chaos in Washington, DC.”

#ChaosCaucus #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality

#Republican Rep #MarjorieTaylorGreene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to remove House #Speaker #MikeJohnson.

There were audible boos from lawmakers in the chamber as Greene spoke at length about her grievances with Johnson on the #House floor.

#HouseRepublicans #Republicans #ChaosCaucus #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #governance #dysfunction #VoteBlue
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-triggers-vote-motion-oust-speaker/story?id=110043228

@GottaLaff
And the call for a vote by the #FreedomCrackers to remove #Johnson in:

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#GOP #Republicans #ChaosCaucus #TreasonCaucus #PartyOfPutin

PROJECT 25 will end American democracy.

#project25 #heritagefoundation #trump #maga #magamovement #patriotmovement #patriots #rightwing #right #radicalright #gop #republicans $democracy #deepstate #autocracy #rightwingmedia #supremecourt #scotus #freedomcaucus #chaoscaucus #kleptocracy #trumptrials #trumpcrimes #trumpcrimefamilt #bannon #stevebannonwarroom #sedition #insurrection #january6 #january6th

Of course

I mean they just managed to pass a bill to avert a #shutdown how dare he manage to get something done!!!

“#MarjorieTaylorGreene files motion to remove #Speaker #MikeJohnson”

#TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #IssuesNotSolutions #Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlueForFunction #VoteBlue
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/majorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-vacate-motion

Congressional Leaders Release $1.2T Spending Bill as #Congress Races to Avert #GovernmentShutdown

The bipartisan bill emerged one day before the federal funding deadline, & it was not clear whether Congress could complete it in time to avoid a partial #shutdown after midnight on Friday.

##HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/congress-spending-bill-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#LevParnas is just the latest addition to an unusual slate of witnesses after #HunterBiden declined to appear for the #HouseOversight & Accountability Cmte hearing titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office.” (so much #projection)

#Biden #Congress #HouseRepublicans #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #Republicans #MAGA

Watch the entire #HouseOversight & Accountability Cmte hearing held today including testimony by #LevParnas who testified that the allegations against Biden were ‘spread by the Kremlin’:

Lev Parnas, a convicted fmr aide to #RudyGiuliani, was the Dems #witness for a #Republican-led hearing to review #HunterBiden’s financial activity.

#Biden #Congress #HouseRepublicans #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice
https://www.youtube.com/live/q7rOGenueYw?si=dbK5jJusRsznCz0k

Earlier this month, lawmakers were able to negotiate & pass a 6-bill $460B spending package that just barely met the 1st deadline on Mar 8, & are now repeating the process — this time haggling over funding for more politically fraught agencies — before the 2nd deadline at the end of this week.

#Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue

#HouseRepublicans, the #Senate, #Democrats & the #WhiteHouse had been at loggerheads over funding levels for the #DHS. For days, they had been litigating disagreements that threatened to imperil the spending package that also funds the #Pentagon, the #StateDepartment & other #FederalAgencies. They are facing a midnight deadline on Fri to pass the measure & avert a lapse in funding.

#Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue

Congressional Leaders Strike Deal on Final Spending Bill Ahead of #GovernmentShutdown

*Lawmakers* resolved disputes over #DHS funding, paving the way for an agreement. But they may still be unable to meet a Friday deadline to avert a brief partial #shutdown.

#Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/politics/congress-spending-bill-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

“…what neither Mr. #Grassley nor any of the other #Republicans who amplified the claims said in their breathless statements was that #FBI officials had warned them repeatedly to be cautious about the accusation, because it was #uncorroborated & its credibility unknown.”

#Biden #Impeachment #HouseRepublicans #RussianAsset #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #Dysfunction #CultOfPersonality #Gaslighting #Propaganda

#GiftArticle

Ignoring Warnings, #GOP Trumpeted Now-#Discredited Allegation Against #Biden

#Republicans in #Congress built their #impeachment case against #POTUS Biden around a #bribery accusation that the #FBI had warned them was #uncorroborated.

#HouseRepublicans #RussianAsset #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #CultOfPersonality #Gaslighting #Propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/politics/gop-smirnov-allegation-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X00.r4n3.WHg71dYeGf2P&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

New #House #Speaker Blamed #SchoolShootings on #Teaching #Evolution & #Abortion

#MikeJohnson is a #ChristianNationalist with #extreme views on #guns, #ReproductiveRights, & more. He's now second in line for the presidency

#Republicans #GOP #MAGA #Extremism #ChaosCaucus #ConspiracyTheories #evangelist #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism #racism #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-blamed-shootings-teaching-evolution-abortion-1234863223/

here’s their 4th choice:

Rep #MikeJohnson (R-LA) was “elected” the #Republican #speaker nominee Tues in an internal vote by the #GOP conference.

Johnson is an attorney & former talk radio host who has served in the #House since 2017 & is the vice chair of the #HouseRepublican conference.

#Congress #Republicans #HouseRepublicans #dysfunction #PublicDisservice #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #MAGA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/24/house-speaker-vote/

This is the only appropriate reaction to the above news re the latest #HouseRepublicans #Speaker plan of a #KevinMcCarthy #JimJordan #speakership.

❤️ @joyannreid

#JoyReid #TheReidOut
@MSNBC
#Congress #Republicans #dysfunction #PublicDisservice #GymJordan #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #MAGA #anarchists #WeaponizationOfGovernment

A total of 20 #Republicans voted against #JimJordan on the first vote for #speaker, the exact same number who opposed #McCarthy on his first of 15 ballots. But it’s a very different group of 20 lawmakers, & it remains to be seen what Jordan can do to win them over.

#GymJordan #extremism #MAGA #anarchist #WeaponizationOfGovernment #PartyOfGrievances #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #dysfunction #PublicDisservice

Meanwhile the #House is currently voting on whether to oust #Republican #KevinMcCarthy from his speakership & #Democrats say they won’t step in to save #McCarthy.

#Congress #HouseRepublicans #Dysfunction #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #PublicDisservice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/03/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-motion-to-vacate/

This was the 1st time #McCarthy’s vote total exceeded #Jeffries’.

Jeffries 211 (1 absent Dem); McCarthy 213.

Which sucks for those of us who dreamt of a #SpeakerJeffries.

Even if McCarthy wins, this #118th #HouseOfRepresentatives is going to be a freakin mess due to the numerous concessions he made.

#House #Speaker #Congress #Dysfunction #GOP #Republican #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #KevinMcCarthy

#KevinMcCarthy loses #12thVote

Notably #ByronDonalds switched to #McCarthy.

Tell us again how he wasn’t a prop.

#Republicans claiming “progress”

#House #Speaker #Congress #Dysfunction #GOP #Republican #InsurrectionCaucus #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #CNP #RepublicanDysfunction #ElectJeffries #SpeakerJeffries

More from @robertpjones on the #whiteChristianNationalist #CouncilForNationalPolicy & the so-called #FreedomCaucus #ElectionDeniers in the US #HouseOfRepresentatives →

https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-worldview-of-republican

#CNP #Congress #Dysfunction #GOP #Republican #InsurrectionCaucus #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #Speaker #House #RepublicanDysfunction #ElectJeffries #SpeakerJeffries