NonilexMay 16, 2025

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

Conservatives Imperil G.O.P. Megabill That Would Fulfill Trump’s Agenda

Conservatives are demanding deeper cuts in federal spending, including the elimination of clean energy tax credits and work requirements for Medicaid recipients to start earlier.

The New York Times
NonilexMar 6, 2025

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

Trump and Johnson Push a Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert a Shutdown

Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around Congress and set funding levels himself.

The New York Times
NonilexMar 6, 2025

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

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Dec 21, 2024

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

December 20, 2024

This evening the House of Representatives passed a measure to fund the government for three months.

Letters from an American
Show threadNonilexSep 23, 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

Show threadNonilexSep 23, 2024

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

NonilexSep 23, 2024

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/

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

Lawmakers advanced a spending agreement with new Secret Service funding and without voter registration restrictions demanded by former president Donald Trump.

The Washington Post
Show threadNonilexSep 18, 2024

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

Show threadNonilexSep 18, 2024

#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

Show threadNonilexSep 18, 2024

#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