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.

#RepublicanDysfunction

#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

#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

#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