Posted on 03/28/2017 6:32:33 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A wounded Paul Ryan is facing another potential crisis over the next month.
The Speaker, who saw his years-long effort to repeal ObamaCare collapse last week after a rebellion on the right, must come up with a plan to fund the federal government and avert a shutdown.
The Wisconsin Republican will face many of the same tricky intraparty dynamics as he tries to keep the government running.
Funding expires in about a month, on April 28, but the House is taking a two-week recess in mid-April, leaving negotiators just a few legislative work weeks to reach a deal.
The stakes are extremely high for the GOP. A government shutdown, similar to the one orchestrated by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his House allies in 2013, would confirm what many Democrats and political pundits are already saying: Republicans, despite controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, simply can't govern.
Two of the biggest hurdles to keeping the government's lights on are conservatives' insistence that the spending package include billions for President Trump's border wall and that it block all federal dollars for Planned Parenthood.
Trump has requested $1.5 billion in supplemental funding for what he's called his "big, beautiful wall," plus another $2.6 billion in his 2018 budget request.
But Senate Democrats have threatened to filibuster the must-pass spending bill if it includes money for a wall, sparking a shutdown standoff over one of the president's chief campaign promises. On top of that, some Republicans from border states -- including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (Texas), Armed Services Chairman John McCain (Ariz.) and Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) -- are highly skeptical of Trump's wall, citing concerns about the price tag and private-property rights.
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Your words are false poison>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
No , they are truth poison. Trump needs to apologize to America for what he did.
May I ask who appoints idiots like McCain,Flake,Cornyn to committee chairmanship?
I think it’s Ryan,he should kick them off their precious committees if they continue,that’s what Pelosi would do,that’s how democrats keep their people in line.
Of course Ryan is a Trump hater so he will not do anything
Ryan is a disaster. He is the chosen leader of the moronic repubs who themselves are compromised capons and geldings. LOL...PATHETIC.
Nor do I which is why it is such a big disappointment that he attacked the Freedom Caucus instead of Ryan.
The Golden Calf mention was symbolic. Maybe there is a reason we still hope,
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
We must clearly identify the enemy, until we do there will always be excuses for helping them. My tag is the reason for the divisive reasoning of the GOP and Dems alike, except the dems know exactly how their pie is devided.
The #1 enemy is the Left. Your tag line is also correct, so to follow through with it, another enemy is those who feed at the public trough. All those corporations, non-profits, think tanks, states and local jurisdictions, etc., broadly known as special interests, who actually write legislation for Congress in order to benefit themselves and those they represent. Unfortunately, there is no way to beat them, for in the larger sense, they are us. The people. All jostling for our piece of the multi trillion dollar pie that is the federal government.
Yep.
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