House Republican tasked with budget deal 'may have set a new low for the futility'

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The top Republican tasked with cobbling together a budget plan that will pass muster with a fractured House GOP caucus is struggling to pull together a deal at a time when Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is under the gun to call for a vote this week.

According to a report from Politico's Jennifer Scholtes and Caitlin Emma, House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) has been put between a rock and a hard place to come up with a plan that can get enough votes in a House where the Republican party has a slim margin of error.

As the report notes, so far the Texas Republican "may have set a new low for the futility."

Adding to Arrington's problems has been sniping by McCarthy, with Politico previously reporting, "McCarthy has taken shots at Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) as 'incompetent and chief deputy Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) as 'ineffective,'" with the report adding, "People close to McCarthy tell us that he perceives both men as disloyal (and we know from covering McCarthy for almost a decade that he holds grudges)."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republican-tasked-with-budget-deal-may-have-set-a-new-low-for-the-futility/ar-AA1ah5ZB

Elect a bunch of clowns and all you get is a circus.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Fiscal strangulation and culture war executions should pass the GOP easily

Something for anti-government bean counters, some way to use the government to choke freedom to death. Easy-Peasey.

[DBoon]

2. I heard a joke about the world's most useless job

The guy in Germany who installs turn signals on BMW autos.

I think the House Budget Chair has set a new standard for useless jobs.