Fine by me, it’s a crap bill for the people.

#FarRight #Republicans on the #House #Budget Cmte on Friday blocked their own party’s megabill from reaching the floor, citing concerns that the #legislation to fulfill #Trump’s domestic agenda would add too much to the #deficit.

5 Republicans—Chip Roy (TX), Ralph Norman (SC), Josh Brecheen (OK), Andrew Clyde (GA), & Lloyd Smucker (PA)—joined #Democrats in voting against the legislation 16 to 21.

#USpol #ChaosCaucus #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/house-republicans-policy-bil.html?smid=url-share

In an attempt to avoid a #GovernmentShutdown at the end of next week, #Trump & #House Speaker #MikeJohnson are pitching a #stopgap bill that would keep federal dollars flowing through Sept 30. Trump & Johnson are embracing it as a way to avoid a politically damaging shutdown fight among #Republicans while still giving Trump wide latitude to slash spending on his own in defiance of #Congress & the #law.

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-johnson-republicans-spending-bill.html?smid=url-share

The #Republican controlled #House voted Thurs to #censure Rep #AlGreen (D-Texas) for disrupting #Trump’s *address to #Congress* on Tues.

The resolution to censure Green, introduced by Rep #DanNewhouse (R-Washington), accuses Green of "a breach of proper conduct.”

Green, in a social media post shared Thurs morning, said he was being punished for “standing up to President Trump.”

#RepublicansAreADisgrace #ChaosCaucus #ClownCaucus #TrollCaucus #USpol

This is just the tip of the chaos coming in 2025: “The fiasco of the past few days is a political blow to Trump. Musk overshadowed him, and when Trump demanded that Republicans free him from the debt ceiling, they ignored him. Meanwhile, extremist Republicans are calling for Johnson’s removal, but it is unclear who could earn the votes to take his place.”

#Politics #USPolitics #ChaosCaucus #ChaosGOP #DemocracyVsOligarchy #ElectionsMatter #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-20-2024

But up against the Sept 30 #shutdown deadline—& mired w/disputes within his conference—#MikeJohnson brokered a deal w/ #Senate Maj Ldr #ChuckSchumer & House #Democrats to dodge what could have been a politically costly outcome.

#Republicans face dubious odds to maintain control of their slim #House majority, & a shutdown, which would shutter some vital govt services ahead of Nov’s elections, could have put #GOP candidates in jeopardy.

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #VoteBlue
#Congress

The package represents a setback for #House Speaker #MikeJohnson & his #Republican conference, which spent the past 2 wks demanding a longer funding bill w/unrelated #legislation attached requiring proof of #citizenship to #vote in federal elections [an unnecessary redundancy since it is already a requirement to vote in federal elections that you be a citizen.]

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #VoteBlue
#Congress

Congressional leaders reach deal to avert shutdown, boost Secret Service funds

#Congress on Sunday agreed to a deal to avert a looming #GovernmentShutdown, advancing just a 2-month stopgap spending agreement w/ emergency #funding for the #SecretService & w/o the harsh #voter registration #restrictions demanded by #Trump.

#HouseRepublicans #ChaosCaucus #VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/22/government-shutdown-deal-budget/

Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.

And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.

#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown

#Democrats are expected to propose a 3-month extension of current #funding, known as a continuing resolution or #CR, which #pragmatic #Republicans unwilling to #shutdown the #government support.

#Defense hawks had voiced worries that a 6-month spending bill would hamstring #NationalSecurity spending, preferring a shorter extension that would give #Congress more time to agree on new spending levels for the rest of the fiscal year.

#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #HouseRepublicans

#Trump may have thrown off those plans w/a Wednesday afternoon social media post 🙄 demanding that #Republicans include the #voting registration bill…in a #funding package, or force a #GovernmentShutdown.

“BE SMART, REPUBLICANS, YOU’VE BEEN PUSHED AROUND LONG ENOUGH BY THE DEMOCRATS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN,” the idiot wrote.

#law #idiocracy #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #House #GOP #HouseRepublicans #GovernmentShutdown #MikeJohnson #government #shutdown

#Republican leaders knew they had probably set up the vote to #fail. 2 people familiar w/ #MikeJohnson’s thinking said #Republicans are expected to blame #Democrats [who do NOT control the #House, so good luck w/that] & the handful of #GOP colleagues who tanked their bill as the reason Johnson must now pivot & begin negotiations [beggar] w/a #Democratic-led #Senate.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown #Republicans

#Funding for the federal #government expires Sept 30, & w/o an extension, most federal govt operations would shut down Oct 1 as millions of #Americans begin early #voting in Nov’s #election.
Wed’s result—a 220-202 vote w/2 voting present—was hardly in doubt. #GOP lawmakers from across the ideological spectrum had said publicly for more than a week that they opposed the #legislation. But #MikeJohnson has insisted there is “no Plan B” to prevent a #shutdown if the bill fails. .

#law #ChaosCaucus

#MikeJohnson’s bill, which combined a 6-month extension of federal funds at current spending levels w/a measure the #House already passed requiring proof of #citizenship to register to #vote in national #elections. The Democratic-controlled #Senate & the White House oppose the House bill, because of the length of the extension & because of the registration provisions.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #GOP #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown #Republicans

#House votes to reject #GOP bill to avert #GovernmentShutdown

The House on Wed rejected Speaker #MikeJohnson’s plan to fund the govt for 6 months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching #government #shutdown deadline not only throughout #Congress but also w/in #Republicans’ House majority.

14 #Republicans joined w/ #Democrats [sick of doing the GOP’s work for them & who objected to racist additions to the bill] to block it.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/18/house-bill-government-shutdown-funding/

“You had 12 #jurors come to a #unanimous conclusion, & the former president was #guilty of 34 #felonies, & that, that somehow is indication of weaponization when that was a #state prosecution that had nothing to do w/President #Biden or the Dept of #Justice,” Jeffries said. “The American people understand that we need more common sense & less chaos in Washington, DC.”

#ChaosCaucus #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality

#Republican Rep #MarjorieTaylorGreene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to remove House #Speaker #MikeJohnson.

There were audible boos from lawmakers in the chamber as Greene spoke at length about her grievances with Johnson on the #House floor.

#HouseRepublicans #Republicans #ChaosCaucus #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #governance #dysfunction #VoteBlue
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-triggers-vote-motion-oust-speaker/story?id=110043228

@GottaLaff
And the call for a vote by the #FreedomCrackers to remove #Johnson in:

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#GOP #Republicans #ChaosCaucus #TreasonCaucus #PartyOfPutin

PROJECT 25 will end American democracy.

#project25 #heritagefoundation #trump #maga #magamovement #patriotmovement #patriots #rightwing #right #radicalright #gop #republicans $democracy #deepstate #autocracy #rightwingmedia #supremecourt #scotus #freedomcaucus #chaoscaucus #kleptocracy #trumptrials #trumpcrimes #trumpcrimefamilt #bannon #stevebannonwarroom #sedition #insurrection #january6 #january6th

I don’t think this has happened in the entire history of the country: “Republicans were left fuming over the early resignations of Gallagher and Buck, with some suggesting it's now within the realm of possibility for the House majority to flip to Democrats mid-Congress.”

#USPolitics #USHistory #USCongress #Election2024 #ChaosCaucus

Republicans livid as chaos threatens to cannibalize House majority - Axios https://apple.news/A86dMFzd7TMGufgQ6-4hbkw

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