Posted on 01/10/2024 5:43:22 PM PST by Twotone
Reports suggest that House conservatives are increasingly fretting about Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) inability to deliver conservative wins.
Speaker Johnson, the White House, and congressional leaders announced a spending deal framework on Sunday to fund the government for the rest of the year.
The spending deal would follow the spending levels as stipulated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), the debt ceiling deal struck by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden. Although the deal has some moderate cuts to the IRS budget among other things, it has rankled members of the House Freedom Caucus and conservatives in both chambers of Congress.
“It’s even worse than we thought. Don’t believe the spin. Once you break through typical Washington math, the true total programmatic spending level is $1.658 trillion — not $1.59 trillion. This is total failure,” the Freedom Caucus wrote.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote, “I am a NO to the Johnson Schumer budget deal. This $1.6 Trillion dollar budget agreement does nothing to secure the border, stop the invasion, or stop the weaponized government targeting Biden’s political enemies and innocent Americans. So much for the power of the purse!”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Breitbart News in a statement, “As the House Freedom Caucus has noted, the actual spending levels in this plan are nearly $100 billion above what we are being promised, but mostly preserve all the pre-existing funding for Biden’s priorities. At a time when we’re $34 trillion in debt and inflation is hollowing out America’s middle class, Republicans can and must do better than this.”
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What gives spine to politicians?
it only takes about three rinos in the republican coalition to kill any freedom caucus initiatives.
Johnson doesn’t have any room to maneuver. He’ll need a republican in the white house and a bigger majority to get anything done.
The blackmailers got to him some how. There is a lot of pure crap going on, with the new kinder, gentler Democrat FBI and CIA.
WOW! We got 356 days of agreement on funding! No required BUDGET! But until the end of the year! Ain’t Continuing Funding Resolutions GREAT! Thanks Mike……..
One thing everyone knows for a fact. Republicans will not or cannot govern unless they have a “Super Majority” in both the House and Senate Plus the Presidency. Then they might, just might deliver on maybe 10% of their campaign promises, But don’t bet on even that.
I support the vast majority of the Freedom Caucus policy positions...with the glaring exception of their insistence to compel the actual majority of the GOP caucus (at least 65% of them) to behave and vote as they would.
They don’t even have a majority in their own party.
Or, they’ll take their ball and go home.
Nothing more than immature children in that respect.
The problem is that the GOPe sucks, always has and always will. There is no bigger majority coming at the current rate, this is their last chance and time is running out. They barely won last summer, haven’t done a damned thing in a year and a half and at this rate they’ll get tossed rightfully in 10 months. Johnson, apparently a Lyin’ Ryan/McCarthy clone will not earn the votes of conservatives, right-of-center types. The key is to get rid of these backstabbing pukes rather than get more of them, voters and congress sellouts alike.
This is the GOPe’s last stand, and the political death of them can’t come soon enough. We’ll see a trend one way or another into the primary season. Congressional pukes will be begging for Trump’s endorsement in the primaries when he ought to tell them to go to hell.
And how many people on FR were bad mouthing Gaetz for, at least, trying to stop this BS.
Most Republicans are really Democrats.
No Democrats are really Republicans.
What it’s looking like to me is all Mike’s talk about being a Christian is getting lost in the secularism of his actions.
The fact that Mike hasn’t shut one hanged thing down - not the FBI, not the DOJ, nothing - tells us all we need to know about his sincerity.
More than a super slim majority.
He's not even the President, or a governor.
He's the nominal leader of a legislative body with 435 members and a tiny majority (something like two seats right now).
He can't do a damn thing if a loser can get one or two partners to block a bill in the House.
Yep, no budget since 2008…..
Johnson is not unable to deliver conservative wins. He is unwilling. There was not even the slightest effort to reduce spending on some of the worst expenditures. We’re probably still funding cow farts. No-one knows. Nobody has read the entire bill. Perhaps the FBI has an Epstein video.
If I have to guess, Mike Johnson is in the closet and the FBI is blackmailing him with a video.
Funny how Nancy Pelosi with a 5 seat majority rammed through far left social engineering time after time after time.
What is the difference?
Hive mind socialists vs independent thinkers?
A leader who is feared and will do whatever it takes to achieve the objective?
A leader who will follow through on consequences for going against the leader?
Pelosi and the rest learned that under Bush during his GWOT.
No budget, paint the President into a corner and then pass whatever they want without knowing all the details. Every member of Congress and more importantly, their staffers, put in everything on their wishlist and it gets passed and funded.
Pres Trump tried to stop this but in his first 2 years, McConnell and Ryan ignored him. In the second 2 years, it was McConnell and Pelosi.
There you go. And these people are still sent back, time and time again.
Right on! Just like Ryan had.
Agree that pelosi wielded more power than republican speakers. but democrats are a machine party. you stay in line with the machine and the machine feeds you. Step out of line—and the feeding tube is cut off at all levels.
republicans don’t have those kinds of consistent incentives on their representatives. (although those incentives do work for some groups in the republican coalition—but not all—and not all at the same time—like the democrats do.)
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