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You can't trust Republicans to do much of anything except lie, cheat, steal, and shut down the government these days.
Here's a reminder of all the stuff Democrats gave up back in June and got absolutely nothing in return:
- Defunded the IRS by $21 billion
- New work requirements for SNAP and TANF
- Defunded Covid relief by $30 billion
- Restarted student loan payments
- Severe 1% cap on budget increases for the rest of Biden's presidency (meanwhile inflation is near 4%)
- New natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia
- Major weakening of NEPA environmental reviews
Republicans? Negotiating in bad faith? Why that’s never ever happened before! I’m sure some more pearl clutching will stop it.
It's all about the chair and the gavel.
You gotta be brain damaged to trust a republican.
To which McCarthy replied with a Godfried quote.
YOU FOOL!!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of going “back on his word” by abandoning the funding levels he agreed to when he and President Biden struck a deal to raise the debt limit.
“Despite the fact that here in the Senate we’re pursuing bipartisanship, the Speaker has chosen to elevate the whims and desires of a handful of hard-right extremists and has nothing to show for it,” Schumer said.
Biden and McCarthy agreed in May to set the nondefense and defense discretionary spending cap at $1.59 trillion, but the Speaker is preparing to move a House GOP-drafted continuing resolution that would be more in line with the $1.47 trillion spending top line demanded by members of the House Freedom Caucus.
The Speaker made some progress earlier this week when the House narrowly approved a rule to set up votes on four appropriations bills funding the departments of Defense, State, Agriculture and Homeland Security.
The Rules Committee, however, convened an emergency meeting to take Ukraine funding out of the Defense bill, despite the failure of the amendments.
“If we’re forced to abandon Ukraine by a handful of extreme people who seem to have no sense of the reality of the world, we will pay a price for years to come.”
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