The #Republicans that showed up to the #TrumpTrial today in Manhattan were *lawmakers* who are all about disrupting legislative business & have no issue w/embarrassing their own party on the #House floor. It included many #HouseFreedomCaucus members who have frozen the chamber for days on end, most recently voting down their party’s own rules as an act of *protest*.
Idiots.
#MAGA #law #Trump #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #RepublicanDysfunction #VoteBlue #governance
The #RulesCommittee has traditionally been an organ of the speaker, & #legislation is typically advanced to the floor in a straight party-line vote.
It reflected the extent of #FarRight anger over Speaker #MikeJohnson’s plan to push through the #legislation over the opposition of #ultraconservative #Republicans, & underscored how heavily the speaker will have to rely on #Democrats to push it across the finish line.
#DemocratsDidThat #VoteBlue #RepublicanDysfunction #Putin #HouseRepublicans
#HouseRepublicans took a critical step late Thurs night toward bringing up the long-stalled foreign #aid bill for #Ukraine, after being forced to rely on Democrat votes to move a plan to consider it out of a key cmte & onto the floor.
The 9-to-3 vote in the critical #RulesCommittee was an early step in the convoluted process the #House is expected to go through over the next couple of days to approve the $95B aid package.
#DemocratsDidThat #VoteBlue #RepublicanDysfunction #Putin #Republicans
By a vote of 51 to 48, w/ 1 senator voting “present,” the #Senate ruled that the charge was #unconstitutional because it failed to meet the requisite #constitutional bar of #HighCrimesAndMisdemeanors. #Republicans united in opposition except for Senator Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska, the lone “present” vote, while #Democrats were unanimous in favor, after arguing that a cabinet member cannot be impeached & removed merely for carrying out the policies of the admin they serve.
#MitchMcConnell is speaking on the #Mayorkas #impeachment & he is recommending to table the matter, which is a whole lotta let’s do nothing.
NO #HighCrimesAndMisdemeanors NONE.
#IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #Congress #WasteOfTime #Republicans #GOP
#Senate now going through nonsensical #Republican motions re #Mayorkas #impeachment that are all being rejected. There will likely be more before a real vote on Schumer’s point of order that article I is unconstitutional.
#TSA screeners would remain on the job #withoutPay, many of whom called in sick as a #protest after a previous #shutdown dragged on for wks, sparking nationwide #travel delays.
It would also leave #Congress w/few alternate paths to fund the govt. A likely last resort would have been another #stopgap resolution to preserve existing #funding, potentially triggering #cuts to #defense spending.
#TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #IssuesNotSolutions #HouseRepublicans #RepublicanDysfunction #VoteBlue #law
Of course
I mean they just managed to pass a bill to avert a #shutdown how dare he manage to get something done!!!
“#MarjorieTaylorGreene files motion to remove #Speaker #MikeJohnson”
#TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #IssuesNotSolutions #Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlueForFunction #VoteBlue
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/majorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-vacate-motion
Congressional Leaders Release $1.2T Spending Bill as #Congress Races to Avert #GovernmentShutdown
The bipartisan bill emerged one day before the federal funding deadline, & it was not clear whether Congress could complete it in time to avoid a partial #shutdown after midnight on Friday.
##HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/congress-spending-bill-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#LevParnas is just the latest addition to an unusual slate of witnesses after #HunterBiden declined to appear for the #HouseOversight & Accountability Cmte hearing titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office.” (so much #projection)
#Biden #Congress #HouseRepublicans #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #Republicans #MAGA
Watch the entire #HouseOversight & Accountability Cmte hearing held today including testimony by #LevParnas who testified that the allegations against Biden were ‘spread by the Kremlin’:
Lev Parnas, a convicted fmr aide to #RudyGiuliani, was the Dems #witness for a #Republican-led hearing to review #HunterBiden’s financial activity.
#Biden #Congress #HouseRepublicans #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice
https://www.youtube.com/live/q7rOGenueYw?si=dbK5jJusRsznCz0k
Earlier this month, lawmakers were able to negotiate & pass a 6-bill $460B spending package that just barely met the 1st deadline on Mar 8, & are now repeating the process — this time haggling over funding for more politically fraught agencies — before the 2nd deadline at the end of this week.
#Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue
#HouseRepublicans, the #Senate, #Democrats & the #WhiteHouse had been at loggerheads over funding levels for the #DHS. For days, they had been litigating disagreements that threatened to imperil the spending package that also funds the #Pentagon, the #StateDepartment & other #FederalAgencies. They are facing a midnight deadline on Fri to pass the measure & avert a lapse in funding.
#Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #IssuesNotSolutions #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue
Congressional Leaders Strike Deal on Final Spending Bill Ahead of #GovernmentShutdown
*Lawmakers* resolved disputes over #DHS funding, paving the way for an agreement. But they may still be unable to meet a Friday deadline to avert a brief partial #shutdown.
#Congress #HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction #PublicDisservice #VoteBlue
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/politics/congress-spending-bill-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
The GOP’s Brand Is Chaos | The Republicans have spent years perfecting their dysfunction.
https://newrepublic.com/post/176353/republican-congress-dysfunction-jordan-speaker
#GOPBrand #RepublicanDysfunction #CongressChaos #JordanSpeaker #PoliticalDisarray #PartisanGridlock #Politics #News
Sen. Amy #Klobuchar (D-MN) said #Senate #Democrats have concluded that #uninterrupted #aid to #Ukraine is their top goal, adding that aid negotiations will be saved for a supplemental request.
“I believe there’s a bunch of #Republicans who are w/ Ukraine. The big test … is going to be what happens w/the supplemental & what happens in the next few weeks,” she said.
#GovernmentShutdown #shutdown #NationalSecurity #RepublicanDysfunction #Obstruction
As for the #ContinuingResolution, #Blumenthal said no #Senate #Democrats indicated they were going to vote against it over its lack of funding for #Ukraine. He expects a vote on the #House-passed CR w/in the next few hours.
(Hours? what happened to 6:30?)
#GovernmentShutdown #shutdown #NationalSecurity #RepublicanDysfunction #Obstruction
“I would have preferred that a bill that had some #assistance for #Ukraine & a #border proposal which we’ve been working very hard on,” Sen Susan Collins (R) said after the House passed its bill. “But the most important goal is to prevent a #GovernmentShutdown. If we can do that today, I will feel we will have accomplished more than the American people anticipated.”
(That’s a pretty low bar, Collins, & it’s only that low because of #RepublicanDysfunction)
Asshat won
#RepublicanCongressmen #RCongressmen
#Insurrection
#Obstruction
#Conspiracy
#January6th #TrumpCoupAttempt
#January6thCommittee
#Extremism #DomesticViolentExtremism #Authoritarianism #Trumpism #MAGA #DomesticTerrorism #House #Speaker #Congress #Dysfunction #GOP #Republican #InsurrectionCaucus #TrollCaucus #ChaosCaucus #RepublicanDysfunction
