The House bill gives them a pay raise for CoLA, and doesn’t include support for Ukraine. They’d promised earlier this year that every bill would have 72 hours to be read and reviewed; they introduced this one and called for a vote minutes later. Fuck the Republicans.
”Federal agencies had already drawn up detailed plans that spell out what services would continue, like airport screening and border patrols, and what must shut down, like scientific research and nutrition aid to 7 million poor mothers.”
Thank goodness they had their priorities straight. Those poor mothers can fuckin’ starve as long as we can continue our useless airport screenings.
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You don’t understand clearly.
White business owners need those planes to make their sales calls. The money generated by those sales trickles down to…
*checks notes*
Other white business owners?
I love your energy and old white business owners suck but if you think it’s only rich white assholes vs rich assholes I’ve got a sane place in Florida to sell you.
How much you want for it?
You’re right though, should have just said rich business owners.
“I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy told reporters. “And you know what? If I have to risk my job for standing up for the American public, I will do that.”
Translation: “My donors told me that I wouldn’t get any more support if I wrecked their stock prices, so I have to walk back my extremist threats so I can still rake in money for re-election as a rep.”
The current Repugnican Party will be the death of the US yet.
This is only for 45 days but interesting that it doesn’t include the 1% cut agreed to in the last deal.
The Senate isn’t even in session until Monday.
The federal government might be down on Sunday.
The House voted 335-91 to fund the government for another 45 days, with more Democrats than Republicans supporting it.
Some 209 Democrats supported the bill, far more than the 126 Republicans who did so, and Democrats described the result as a win.
Democratic Representative Don Beyer said: “I am relieved that Speaker McCarthy folded and finally allowed a bipartisan vote at the eleventh hour on legislation to stop Republicans’ rush to a disastrous shutdown."
McCarthy’s shift won the support of top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, who previously had backed a similar measure that was moving through the Senate with broad bipartisan support, even though the House version dropped aid for Ukraine.
“I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy told reporters. “And you know what? If I have to risk my job for standing up for the American public, I will do that.”
The funding fight focuses on a relatively small slice of the $6.4 trillion U.S. budget for this fiscal year. Lawmakers are not considering cuts to popular benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Bipartisan? Didn’t like 100 R’s vote against it?
Bipartisan doesn’t mean unanimous.
