House GOP leadership has booted the @USChamber from its strategy calls on reconciliation.

[demmiblue]

NEWS in @PunchbowlNews this AM: House GOP leadership has booted the @USChamber from its strategy calls on reconciliation.

This is a major statement, and represents a break up between the Chamber and House Rs.

Link to tweet

[Takket]

1. can anyone explain what this means? Is this good or bad?

[Wounded Bear]

4. Assuming it's the National Chamber of Commerce...

which has a decided corporate lean, which may or may not align with your local chapter.

This sounds like a good thing to me, getting one less corporate voice yelling at them from within the chamber.

[StarfishSaver]

6. It will be even better if the Chamber publicly supports Biden's plan

Biden's legislative team and Democratic House and Senate leadership are probably doing a hard court press behind the scenes to get them to do that ...

[berniesandersmittens]

9. Looks like their website has been endorsing Biden's plan

https://www.uschamber.com/


It will be interesting to see how hard the Chamber goes publicly. They are a big group with a lot of clout.

The new narrative now is repubs don't support business. (Well, not new to us...)

[StarfishSaver]

10. Yes.

It will make a huge difference if they come out hard in favor of the plan and against what the Republicans are doing.

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[Firestorm49]

3. I'll be crying baby tears.

[berniesandersmittens]

5. K&R!

[bottomofthehill]

7. Money fight. The chamber has always been very pro republican

Now there is a split. Let’s see how long it lasts. My guess is about as long as the pledge not to support members of Congress who supported the insurrection.

[bottomofthehill]

18. Apparently lasted almost 8 hours.

[FalloutShelter]

8. Sounds like good news...

seems like the Chamber has been big footing the conference.


On edit:
https://www.uschamber.com/press-release/us-chamber-vows-defeat-reconciliation-hails-voting-deadline-bipartisan-infrastructure

[BComplex]

11. The national chamber is the biggest right wing group you will ever encounter.

Always has been. I used to work for a local chamber, and the national chamber is the papa bear of corporate toadies. They have done the corporate work for the Koch brothers and Heritage Foundation. They're extremists.

I don't trust them as far as I can throw them.

[mopinko]

12. yeah, this is rly good news.

sounds like there are a couple grown ups in the house gop caucus.
at least grown up enough to know how fucking bad this looks.

[BComplex]

13. I know, mopinko. My problem is, I'm just wondering if this news is true, or skewed or what?

National chamber gets all of these assholes elected. I can't imagine a republican seriously turning against them or throwing shade of any kind. It just doesn't make sense. And I'm surprised if there are really any born-again grown ups in the house GQP caucus. I'm sure as hell hoping it is true!!!

[awesomerwb1]

14. There was a time the US Chamber of Commerce

had a lot influence amongst republicans. That's not the case anymore with the new trumpublican nutters.

[TygrBright]

16. Someone from the Chamber probably noted that infrastructure is a good investment for them. n/t

[bottomofthehill]

17. Well that did not take long. Even faster than I thought.

The Chamber has dropped its support for the Infrastructure Bill in an attempt to get back in the Republican good graces.