House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline.
They pulled a transportation-housing bill late Tuesday as some coastal Republicans opposed cuts to Amtrak. And they yanked a financial services and general government measure on Thursday morning that included divisive anti-abortion language.
It’s a step backward for Johnson, R-La., who had hoped to show progress on appropriations bills championed by his party’s conservative wing in order to secure their votes to pass a short-term bill that would keep the government open beyond the Nov. 17 deadline.
I think the correct phrase should be “We can’t govern”.
We are ungovernable makes it sound like this is something that just happened to the GOP
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More like not interested in governing at all
Mistakes were made
Yes the Republican party is ungovernable as they have shown time and time again, you evangelical cunt.
It’s just threat of government shutdown on repeat these years it seems. First it was years between events, now we’re on what? Months? Weeks almost. It’s like they can’t come to any form of consensus unless the fabric of the US hangs on them doing so. Like a porn addict that can only cum if he’s watching some deranged shit.
Accurate, but I didn’t need that image in my head 🤢
Like a porn addict that can only cum if he’s watching some deranged shit.
We already know that we are talking about republicans.
“I don’t think the Lord Jesus himself could manage this group,” said Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas.
I think it’s presumptuous to assume that Lord Jesus wants anything to do with them.
For real. I can’t name a group more gleefully sinful and un-Christ-like than the modern GOP.
“Are you saying Jesus Christ can’t hit a curve ball?!”
What I’m getting out of this is these Neanderthals can’t do their jobs.
Hey boss, sorry going to get you that funding, just have to take 6 months off work first and we will revisit this.
Hey boss, still know you want that money, so we need a bit more time, we are going to kick out the speaker then do cocaine until we elect a new one. Thanks bye!
Hey boss, I just sexually assaulted Roe V. Wade, looks like you got a real problem that you are going to have to take care of. Sorry and wish you the best! <3
Hey boss, good news is we elected a speaker, but we don’t like him, so we are going to need 45 days to do the whole “money thing” again. I know you wish you could fire me, but get used to it bitch.
Hey boss, looks like we are coming on that deadline…
/satire
Neanderthals were just as smart as homo sapiens and were highly empathetic, with the earliest record of caring for the sick among them.
We’d be quite lucky if the GOP even loosely resembled the Neanderthals.
They were also taller, strong, and known to sexuslly assault their captives. But nowadays its more of an expression than a literal.
Lol. You’re going to need a source for that last claim there.
And they were roughly the same size as homo sapiens at the time and shorter than modern humans: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25757530
I’m not getting into a debate about neanderthals because I used an expression referencing their public preception, dude.
Aka “I was spreading misinformation, got corrected, and rather than learning and moving on doubled down on even more wildly misinformed claims I can’t back up.”
Yes… spreading misinformation… about Neanderthals… lmfao bruh
Who would’ve thunk that the speaker is not the root of the problem?
Well if he’d stop wanking off at work because it’s the only computer that doesn’t have covenant eyes he can access…
He might get something done.
How entirely expected.
So kill yourselves and do humanity a solid.
do they… do they think that’s a good thing to be?
We should demand that every person that works in the capital building lose all government benefits and pay while the government is shut down. It’s insane that they pay absolutely no consequences for acting like petulant children instead of doing the job they were elected to do
*Every Congress person. No sense in punishing the poor functionaries just because the Republicans are all fuck with.
Hear me out: If the GOP could just, I don’t know, at least talk to the other 49% of the House, they may be able to get at least some of the things they want.
Apparently I’m really optimistic today.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This week, Johnson held multiple meetings with groups of rank-and-file Republicans about a path forward on a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR.
Republicans said Johnson will need to make a call on a CR strategy by Friday to abide by the 72-hour rule, which gives lawmakers sufficient time to read the legislation before voting on it early next week.
Like the financial services measure, several of the remaining House appropriations bills have anti-abortion provisions, which could make it similarly difficult to win the votes of politically endangered Republicans.
The issue has sparked fresh anxiety within the GOP after another poor election night earlier this week in which voters in a diverse array of states punished the party for its hard-line opposition to legal abortion.
Before they pulled the financial services bill on Thursday, 165 Republicans voted for an amendment by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to cut White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s salary to $1.
Conservatives also were furious over the failure of another amendment — authored by a key Trump ally, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. — that would have barred funding to acquire property for the new planned FBI headquarters.
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New house leadership in 5… 4… 3… 2…
