Congress Catch-All | House passes CR, no debt ceiling change
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I agree but they should leverage permanent elimination of the debt ceiling to get something back from Trump.
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We simply recognize what an asinine and preposterous worry that is. I mean you could get hit by a meteor when walking outside too. The two are about as likely to happen.
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Is the Third Time a Charm?
"Speaker Mike Johnson will try yet again to pass a short-term funding bill this afternoon, just hours before a government shutdown is set to begin. But this time it seems likely to work," Punchbowl News
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“Johnson is now pushing a short-term funding bill that keeps federal agencies open until mid-March. The bill will include $100 billion in disaster aid for the hurricane-battered Southeast and other states. There’s also $30 billion in aid for farmers and a one-year extension of current agriculture policy.”
“The measure will be taken up under suspension, according to senior GOP lawmakers and aides, meaning it needs a two-thirds majority to pass. There will be one vote, instead of individual votes on the component parts as Johnson first envisioned.”
“If House Democrats back it – which seems likely – and the Senate processes it quickly, the measure could be approved by tonight’s midnight shutdown deadline and sent to President Joe Biden for his signature.”
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Yes, because if he is instrumental in cutting out g'ment pork spending that is a bad thing and he should be condemned for it.
aGDevil2k
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You are so basic. You think you're smart and then you actually think he really cares about that at all??
He cares about his own power and wealth. Nothing else.
lawtig02
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God, calla. This is so freaking embarrassing for your team. How can you support these ultrabetas?
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You might be cf's twin brother.
So evil billionaire who is leading the way away from fossil fuels, supports free speech so much that he bought a social media platform because it was guilty of censorship, and wants to eliminate wasteful g'ment spending. Damn, he needs to be shot. Face it, you are just angry because he supports all the things you, as a liberal are supposed to support, but secretly don't unless it agrees with your pov.
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What am I not supposed to like here. I get that you don't want trump and DOGE to succeed. But billions in pork spending got cut? I'm sorry but I like that. Guess what, it got done and the g'ment didn't shut down. I'm guessing America will like that too.
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Uh, it didn’t actually cut anything. It just kicked the can to March. When EVERYTHING will be on your team. Good luck with that!
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And DOGE will be hawking everything. Gotta like that.Uh, it didn’t actually cut anything. It just kicked the can to March. When EVERYTHING will be on your team. Good luck with that!
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Looks like the main differences in this bill compared to the bipartisan deal are (1) it’s for a much shorter time, and (2) it removes the limits on American investment in China. (1) just means the Pubs will have to deal with all this again in three months, all on their own. (2) was the reason Elon objected to the bipartisan bill in the first place, so congrats to him I guess. He can become even more filthy rich by doing business with one of our main enemies.
Otherwise, the bill that finally passed didn’t really cut any spending. It just extended existing spending for a shorter time.
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Sounds like your Speaker knows this was a complete capitulation by the Pubs. Could have had a decent win until Trump and Elon got involved.
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Johnson called it a “very important piece of legislation,” but also a “necessary step to bridge the gap to put us into that moment where we can put our fingerprints on the final decisions on spending for 2025.”
“We are set up for a big and important new start in January,” Johnson said.
We're not at war with China. Prescott Bush was still doing business with Germany after we entered WWII.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
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translation: With DOGE beginning in 2025 it is going to be harder to get our pork spending through so let's blow it out in 24 for old time's sake and we can start being fiscally responsible in 2025.
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Wait, I thought you just said THIS bill cut all the pork.
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Do you think either potus bush was a nazi or nazi sympathizer?