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House GOP cuts Speaker Johnson’s honeymoon short (thehill.com)

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House Republicans are struggling with the same battles over government funding that led to the chaotic unseating of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), seemingly cutting any honeymoon short for new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). GOP leadership this week yanked two spending bills from the floor amid disputes on spending and other controversial policy items. With a government funding deadline less than a week away, the conference seems hopelessly divided on how to avert a shutdown.

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

It included a policy rider that would have nullified a Washington, D.C., law aimed at preventing employer discrimination on the basis of reproductive health care decisions.

Wow.... Just so you know, these guys are so enamored with the idea of taking away more of your rights, it is the make or break point for some of these spending bills.

Some conservatives, meanwhile, opposed the bill because it did not include language to bar funding for a new FBI headquarters.

Why??? They are the ones who screamed not to de-fund the police right?

saying it still “needs to cut spending,” even as it proposes pulling back and repurposing billions of dollars in IRS funding approved by Democrats in the last Congress.

Every dollar we spend on the IRS is reducing the deficit, this is moronic. This will add spending, not take it away.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Every dollar we spend on the IRS is reducing the deficit, this is moronic. This will add spending, not take it away.

That's the plan. The republicans have don't want to reduce the deficit. In fact, it's the Republican administrations are the one's who keep pushing the deficit up.

"Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."

The Republicans go out of their way to jack up the deficit and national debt and then screech like harpies that it's somehow the Democrat's fault and the GOP propaganda machine convinces voters that the Republicans are somehow the fiscally responsible ones.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

They don’t like the federal police because the federal police keep investigating them for federal crimes.

They’re totally ok with local cops though.

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