House Won't Pass Stopgap to Avoid Shutdown

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Political Wire

February 16, 2024 at 7:37 am EST


Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) said the House will not pass another temporary spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown when the latest deadline expires on March 1, Bloomberg reports.

“Ruling out another short-term spending bill raises the chances of a shutdown given how little time Congress has to complete talks on the long-delayed fiscal 2024 spending measure. Current funding for U.S. agencies runs out in two tranches, on March 1 and March 8.”

Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2024/02/16/top-republican-pledges-no-more-stopgap-funding/

[rurallib]

1. Brilliant political strategy to shut the government down just before an election

Who is their leader? Alfred E. Neuman?

[JohnSJ]

2. Alfred E. Neuman has more sense then this cult.

[dutch777]

4. Truly. The stupid is strong in that tribe. Gives me more and more hope for a WH and Congress Dem sweep in Nov!

And hopefully down ballot in the states' and local governments as well.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Thanks, House Republicans. Enjoy your fucking paid vacation.

Notice they all left town before announcing this.

[dchill]

5. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

A. Lincoln

[C_U_L8R]

6. What's the definition of insanity?

Oh yeah. Doing what these moron magats do.

I've never seen a national political party kick itself in the nuts so much as the GOP. Hey Republicans, how's that feel?

[mzmolly]

7. There's that 'chaos' Orange'eto wants.

His craven flock of congress critters will be remembered as such.

[CousinIT]

8. They will make demands - such as....

...that their closed-door fiscal commission designed to cut, gut, defund and privatize social security & Medicare be created/accepted and allowed to craft a 'budget deal' that - unbeknownst to most of us, will cut, gut, privatize and/or defund social security & Medicare. IOW, they want to FORCE Democrats to accept these cuts in order to get a budget deal.

[Pas-de-Calais]

9. Perhaps less impeachment time more real work time

[Nictuku]

10. And they choose to take a 2 week vacation now??? WTF???

House Republicans to Take 2-Week Vacation Amid National Security Threat, Mass Shooting
Story by Jordy Meiselas • 1d

This latest press release comes after House Republicans signaled the alarms earlier today about a possible threat to our national security from Russian nuclear weapons in space and as the United States is experiencing another act of gun violence in Kansas City during the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade.

In addition, the House was supposed to consider passing a bipartisan Senate bill to provide aid to our allies overseas, but instead of doing their job, they are taking a vacation (again).

There is a March 1 deadline to avert another shutdown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republicans-to-take-2-week-vacation-amid-national-security-threat-mass-shooting/ar-BB1ii3Ou

[bluestarone]

11. Guess, as the saying goes

You can lead an ELEPHANT to water, BUT can't make them drink! Americans will get their message loud and clear!

[Gregory Peccary]

21. Can you push the elephant in a drown him?

[ZonkerHarris]

12. GOP - Responsible for refusing to end the border crisis and shut down the government. Get the ads ready

They won't govern for the people.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. hey stoopid, if u shut the place down , guess what , u dont get paid .

30 years of this nonsense and still nothing . throwing temper tantrums all the way.

[eggplant]

19. Nope, they get paid regardless.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-2023-does-congress-get-paid/

[honest.abe]

14. This could get ugly.

Sounds like they have no interest in passing anything that might benefit the country. Purely for political reasons.

[ificandream]

15. The question is will the Repughs take all the blame for this? Not likely.

[LastDemocratInSC]

16. The Red Star Caucus is going on vacation knowing that their actions will weaken the United States.

[FloridaBlues]

17. Right before the state of the union address. Not smart republicans

Biden will make sure the public knows about who shut down government and no border bill. Count on it

[CTyankee]

22. "They're a bunch of quitters!"" I can hear him saying it now. He should compare them to school yard bullies who

talk tough and then run away when somebody stands up to them. He should hold them up to ridicule, to be laughed at.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Assholes

[et tu]

20. biden knows how to

get around some things, so i'm hoping he has a plan b~