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  1. 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
    nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/poli

  2. 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
    nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/poli

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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
    washingtonpost.com/business/20

  7. 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

  8. #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

  9. #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

  10. #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

  11. #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

  12. #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

  13. #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
    washingtonpost.com/business/20

  14. “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

  15. #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

  16. 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
    youtube.com/live/q7rOGenueYw?s

  17. 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

  18. #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

  19. “…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