Showing posts with label Shutdowns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shutdowns. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2025

LOL, 8 Senate Democrats were Yea before they were Nay: 9 Senate Democrats and 1 Independent broke their own filibuster to advance the House Republican continuing spending resolution to a floor vote against which 8 of them then voted as it passed on a simple majority

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 8 Democrats: "See, we voted against it!" The Senate filibuster is indeed a magical, wonderful, horrible, no good thing. It makes ...

Senator Schumer's surrender to Republicans inflames rank and file Democrats even in their homes

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The anger mirrors less visible Republican discontent with its supine leadership for failing to assert Congress' control over the power o...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Ohio shoulda said pwease

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  Local projects like Milliken Road, Wright-Patt sidelined as U.S. House votes to avoid shutdown Even as Ohio Republicans stuck with Presid...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

House Freedom Caucus caves completely to King Ludwig and Prince Elon, House votes 217-213-2 to continue spending at Biden levels through the end of fiscal year 2025

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  Two seats remain vacant due to Trump appointments and one is newly vacant due to sudden death.  Republican Massie voted Nay and Democrat G...

Ed Kilgore: Senate Democrats have no choice on the dirty continuing spending resolution if it passes the House, have only one filibuster to use in 2025, and now's the time

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Johnson added conservative sweeteners to the CR, which isn’t “clean” (i.e., a simple extension of current funding levels for everything) ...

Mad King Ludwig declares war on Representative Thomas Massie (KY-4), one of only two Republicans remaining with the gumption to oppose the proposed continuing spending resolution

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The other Republican opponent of the CR is Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. He won his 2022 Senate race with 61.8% of the vote and won't n...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

The House Freedom Caucus' Chip Roy, attacked by Trump in the past, is folding like a house of cards, will support yet another continuing resolution authorizing spending through September 30th

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In shift, hard-line conservatives signal openness to stopgap to avert shutdown  ... For years, members of the House Freedom Caucus have been...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

House Democrats correctly doubt whether any funding deal they agree to will be respected by Elon Musk and DOGE, hurtling the federal government toward a shutdown

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 ... many Democrats are pressing leadership to withhold support for any spending plan that doesn’t take steps to ensure the allocated funds...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is correct: Elon Musk is an unelected interloper, with no authority and no legitimacy who makes a mockery of the appropriations process

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   Musk exercises nonexistent dictatorial line-item-veto powers over spending and personnel as a "super cabinet" official who was ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Hakeem Jeffries should welcome a government shutdown on March 14 because Trump is now a bad faith president who oversteps Congress' power of the purse and can't be trusted

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Really, Democrat leadership is looking at it all wrong. Just shut it down and go home. That's what Democrat legislators have had to do i...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Fox News dipshit says Trump gave a masterclass lol

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 DAVID MARCUS: De facto President Trump's handling of shutdown threat was a masterclass The piece of legislation which the boss said at ...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

The US House passed a continuing spending resolution through March 14, 2025 at 5:59PM yesterday, the US Senate passed it this morning at 12:23AM, averting a federal government shutdown

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   The House roll call vote (366-34-1-29nv) is here . 34 Republicans voted Nay. The Senate roll call vote (85-11-4nv) is here . 10 Republica...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Trump's first defeat lol: You might say the two billionaires were shown who's boss

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 Second continuing spending resolution goes down in flames, after Elon Musk and Donald Trump said Nay to the first one, which never even cam...

Trump's a Democrat now lol

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  Making chumps of us all. President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid of the debt ceiling,  a day after he came...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

ICYMI: The House Republican spending bill with Trump's provision to stop non-citizen vote fraud was defeated on Sept.18 202-220 because of 14 Republican No votes, 5 Republican No shows, and 2 Republican fools voting present

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  House GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson’s funding bill : A diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) propos...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

The US Senate just passed the funding bill

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 CNN just reported : The funding legislation was approved by a vote of 74-24 at 2:02 a.m. ET, more than two hours after the midnight ET dead...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Compromise spending bill passes US House 286-134 bringing fiscal year 2024 federal discretionary spending to $1.659 trillion through September

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 WASHINGTON — The House voted 286-134 on Friday to pass a sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding bill , sending it to the Senate just hou...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Third continuing resolution since September passes Congress to fund federal government into March

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WASHINGTON — Congress passed a bill on Thursday that would prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend and keep federal funds flowin...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Another CR lol: They may have to do this over and over until the election because the Republican majority in the US House is now so razor thin

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  Congressional leaders reach short-term spending deal to keep government open until March The deal would keep the government funded until M...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

US House Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries crows over passage of more of the same old, same old bloated spending by continuing resolution

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Looking forward to a Moody's downgrade, if they've got the guts. Congress certainly doesn't.   Senate sends funding bill to Bide...