You can't make this up!
Cowards hope someone else will do what must be done.
Heroes do it themselves.
Vote Nay for once!
You can't make this up!
Cowards hope someone else will do what must be done.
Heroes do it themselves.
Vote Nay for once!
Chip Roy is right.
The expiring temporary tax cuts of Donald Trump had a cost in 2017, and if renewed they'll still have a cost, which is obvious to everyone with a brain except Mike Crapo and his supporters.
All the focus for Chip Roy is on reducing the spending side, instead of on increasing the revenue side, as is usual with the GOP budget hawks. They never really reduce spending, however, and the deficits get bigger as a result.
Meanwhile it's amusing to watch how today's Republicans are turning themselves into pretzels just to keep the temporary Trump tax code from expiring and reverting back to the Bush tax cuts, most of which were made permanent by John Boehner and Barack Obama.
Reverting would actually be smarter than what we are going to get, which will be more unaffordable tax cuts and bigger deficits and $50 trillion in debt by 2034.
Even Trump knows this, coming out as he did just a few days ago for . . . the Bush tax cuts.
He specifically recommended adding the old 39.6% additional compromise bracket for the rich agreed to by Boehner and Obama on January 2, 2013.
Trump is a redistributionist, after all. He said so just recently.
He knows he has to pay for what he wants to give away to people. And his idea is to soak the rich to pay for it, just like any good Democrat would do.
I say go ahead. Make my day.
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The 2014 tax brackets, showing the added 39.6% bracket on high incomes |
In shift, hard-line conservatives signal openness to stopgap to avert shutdown
... For years, members of the House Freedom Caucus have been predictable “no” votes on stopgaps and other spending measures that do not codify their priorities, railing against leaders for failing to approve appropriations bills on time.
But now, many of those members — happy with how the Trump
administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is taking a
sledgehammer to the federal government — are being atypically
cooperative and signaling support for Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.)
plan to pass a largely clean continuing resolution (CR) until Sept. 30,
the end of the fiscal year. Trump endorsed the full-year CR last week.
“My bottom line is: It’s a step forward, again, based on the word that we’re being given from the White House, that they will continue to do the work, that the president supports it and wants it, I’m comfortable,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a deficit hawk who is part of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. ...
These bumblebrains really don't get it.
Elon Musk and DOGE have usurped the role of Congress and have made the Congress irrelevant by accomplishing what they never do.
They should just pack it in. Or maybe DOGE should just eliminate them.
After all, they can't list any accomplishments, can they?
Matt Gaetz is not in the House today, that's why we have 434 not 435. He resigned after winning re-election.
That vote could have come in real handy right about now, but no, FL-1 had to have a prima donna in the House.
Others not voting for Mike Johnson:
Keith Self (TX-3)
Ralph Norman (SC-5)
Thomas Massie (KY-4).