Over 100 House Republicans vote to defund Kamala Harris' office [View all]

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Some of the Freedom Caucus idiots are pushing amendments to defund the salary of various members of the Biden administration. These motions normally fail in the House because there is no way that the Senate will agree with these rather ignorant amendments.

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A few months before the 2022 midterm elections, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted that if Republicans reclaimed the House majority, GOP leaders hoped to reinstate the so-called “Holman Rule.” He explained at the time, “This obscure rule — which Republicans revived last time they held the majority, until the Democratic majority ended it — would allow Republicans to use spending bills to try to slash the salary of specific federal officials.”

Republicans never lost sight of the priority, and on the first full day of the current Congress, House GOP members approved a rules package that did, in fact, empower members to go after individual officials’ salaries.

The result is a strange hobby for the far-right House majority. Politico reported on some of the more audacious examples.

House lawmakers defeated an effort by Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) to defund the office of Vice President Kamala Harris, one of the highest-level efforts yet to defund prominent federal officials and agencies.

Note, the measure to go after the vice president’s salary fell short, but 106 House Republicans — 48% of the GOP conference — voted for the effort.

We are facing a government shutdown and the Freedom Caucus idiots are pursuing these stupid motions