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.
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 🤢
We already know that we are talking about republicans.