House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline.
They pulled a transportation-housing bill late Tuesday as some coastal Republicans opposed cuts to Amtrak. And they yanked a financial services and general government measure on Thursday morning that included divisive anti-abortion language.
It’s a step backward for Johnson, R-La., who had hoped to show progress on appropriations bills championed by his party’s conservative wing in order to secure their votes to pass a short-term bill that would keep the government open beyond the Nov. 17 deadline.
I think the correct phrase should be “We can’t govern”.
We are ungovernable makes it sound like this is something that just happened to the GOP
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Mistakes were made
More like “we are unherdable”
Yes the Republican party is ungovernable as they have shown time and time again, you evangelical cunt.
“I don’t think the Lord Jesus himself could manage this group,” said Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas.
I think it’s presumptuous to assume that Lord Jesus wants anything to do with them.
It’s really just common sense that the Jesus in the Bible would never run as a Republican. And if he did, he’d never get elected because the Republican base think he’s too liberal and weak.
For real. I can’t name a group more gleefully sinful and un-Christ-like than the modern GOP.
Somalian pirates are the only thing that comes to mind.
I mean when there’s nothing to live for in a country so fucked, can you blame them?
Unlike the GOP, they have options.
“Are you saying Jesus Christ can’t hit a curve ball?!”
It’s just threat of government shutdown on repeat these years it seems. First it was years between events, now we’re on what? Months? Weeks almost. It’s like they can’t come to any form of consensus unless the fabric of the US hangs on them doing so. Like a porn addict that can only cum if he’s watching some deranged shit.
Accurate, but I didn’t need that image in my head 🤢
Like a porn addict that can only cum if he’s watching some deranged shit.
We already know that we are talking about republicans.
Well the best part of this is we can find out exactly what kind of deranged shit Speaker Johnson is into!
What I’m getting out of this is these Neanderthals can’t do their jobs.
Neanderthals were very skilled and were definitely able to do their jobs. These chucklefucks, on the other hand…
Hey boss, sorry going to get you that funding, just have to take 6 months off work first and we will revisit this.
Hey boss, still know you want that money, so we need a bit more time, we are going to kick out the speaker then do cocaine until we elect a new one. Thanks bye!
Hey boss, I just sexually assaulted Roe V. Wade, looks like you got a real problem that you are going to have to take care of. Sorry and wish you the best! <3
Hey boss, good news is we elected a speaker, but we don’t like him, so we are going to need 45 days to do the whole “money thing” again. I know you wish you could fire me, but get used to it bitch.
Hey boss, looks like we are coming on that deadline…
/satire
…coming on that deadline…
Ew. Also, apt. Not sure if it was a typo or not, but if it was, keep it.
How entirely expected.
Hear me out: If the GOP could just, I don’t know, at least talk to the other 49% of the House, they may be able to get at least some of the things they want.
Either there’s a shutdown or Johnson is out by Dec 1
The cabbage hasn’t even rotted yet.
Can we reuse the one from Liz Truss?
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New house leadership in 5… 4… 3… 2…
do they… do they think that’s a good thing to be?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This week, Johnson held multiple meetings with groups of rank-and-file Republicans about a path forward on a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR.
Republicans said Johnson will need to make a call on a CR strategy by Friday to abide by the 72-hour rule, which gives lawmakers sufficient time to read the legislation before voting on it early next week.
Like the financial services measure, several of the remaining House appropriations bills have anti-abortion provisions, which could make it similarly difficult to win the votes of politically endangered Republicans.
The issue has sparked fresh anxiety within the GOP after another poor election night earlier this week in which voters in a diverse array of states punished the party for its hard-line opposition to legal abortion.
Before they pulled the financial services bill on Thursday, 165 Republicans voted for an amendment by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to cut White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s salary to $1.
Conservatives also were furious over the failure of another amendment — authored by a key Trump ally, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. — that would have barred funding to acquire property for the new planned FBI headquarters.
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