Highlights from latest spending bills

Congressional appropriators are seeking less aggressive budget cuts for the IRS than what the Trump administration has proposed.…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #edforst #generalservicesadministration #houseappropriationscommittee #irs #PattyMurray #publicbuildingsreformboard #rosadelauro #senateappropriationscommittee #statedepartment #SusanCollins #TomCole #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/358005/

#TomCole seems to have not been paying attention to the times where the #Republican party has done exactly this. Republicans and #Trump specifically are on a rampage destroying everything in sight. If this is a tool in the tool box for the Democrats, as much as it sucks for everybody involved, it seems like the lesser evil.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5525946-democrats-blackmail-trump-republicans/

GOP Senators Trade Constitutional Authority For Elon’s Phone Number

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/gop-senators-trade-constitutional-authority-for-elons-phone-number/

Raw Story via MSN

Republicans confess attack on Social Security and Medicare is a top priority

Story by Julia Conley, Common Dreams • 1h

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-confess-attack-on-social-security-and-medicare-is-a-top-priority/ar-AA1ivdTA?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=f70fdfe080614626a1d19086d676f4ff&ei=15

Capitol Hill Republicans, who have an annual salary of $174,000 and lavish healthcare coverage, think it is your Social Security and Medicare benefits that are the problem. See comments by Member of Congress Tom Cole.

#democrats #jimjordan #medicare #socialsecurity #tomcole

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«W/ #KevinMcCarthy out as #Speaker, #HouseRules Chair #TomCole says #Republicans r free 2 step back frm deep appropriations cuts dictated by McCarthy’s backroom deal w/ #FarRight in June.

“This agreement was faulty frm beginning. It’s changed over time, & now in a sense, it doesn’t exist bcuz McCarthy isn’t speaker anymore,” Cole said in interview. “So we’re not really bound by this agreement now. That will be an interesting thing new speakr will have 2 hash out.”»

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/08/tom-cole-mccarthy-deal-00120502

#SpeakerOfTheHouse #GOPinDisarray #Anger

"That's really off the table," said Rep. #TomCole, R-Okla., who has built a reputation as an institutionalist over the years. "I don't think anybody voted to do that. I don’t think that works very well in any time. I think it's particularly unsuited to these times. The polarization is too great."

#GOP are nothing if not obstructionists.