Posted on 03/03/2025 8:58:56 AM PST by davikkm
The WHOLE Deep State team in Congress (ALL Democrats, and the RINO’s who will vote with them), will pass ANOTHER CR to keep the grift alive and well.....
I think the media hyping a government shutdown WILL NOT have the same effect it did in the 90’s people today are VERY SKEPTICAL of government today!! A government shutdown would show the public just how little a NON essential shut down affects them!! The MSM can hype all they want they NO LONGER have the pull they used to have!! SHUT THE DAMN THING DOWN!!!
A shutdown sounds wonderful to me.
I guess on this one issue I support the Democrats.
Lol.
Speaker Johnson is a Democrat drone.
I see a man for sale. A guy that won’t work too hard. A “this is the best I can do, so this is it” sort of guy.
With another 2 trillion in printy-money, we’ll just have more inflation. These idiots should just weather the contraction and do what’s needed.
If the ONLY good that comes out of DOGE is that millions of Americans are awakened to the evil of Democrats and The Swamp, it is worth it. 🤓
That is correct.
All of the DOGE cuts have been for items that were not specifically funded by laws passed by Congress. President Trump has been very careful not to touch anything that is mandated by laws.
Very few spending items are specifically mandated by laws. Congress has delegated way too much of their authorities to the bureaucracy to determine exactly how money is spent. And the bureaucracy is, in theory, controlled by the executive branch.
Policies, procedures, and practices of an agency are not laws. They are subject to override by the executive, which is President Trump, unless there are specific laws passed by Congress that require them. That is the legal basis on which the Trump administration has based its' actions.
The weekly rulings of Democrat pop-up judges against the Trump administration are based on pretenses. There is no basis in law for any of them.
DOGE does have some recommendations which will require Congress to pass changes in law. We have not seen the campaigning for those items yet.
This March spending bill undoubtedly has some offensive items in it, which are now law. That is not a good thing, but it is the best we could do for now.
Remember that Republicans have been permitted to get scraps from the banquet table of fraud and corruption from which the Democrats have been feasting for all these years. The Republicans as a group will not truly support large changes in the system.
The Republic control of the House and Senate is a very thin illusion which can be overturned by a handful of RINOs. That must be corrected in the mid-term elections.
In the meantime, let the layoffs and contract cancellations continue.
This March spending bill undoubtedly has some offensive items in it, which are now law. That is not a good thing, but it is the best we could do for now.”
Nope.
Shut down the government.
No deals.
That just means more money for the DOGE rebate check next spring. LOL
...let’s wait and see how the President hammers the legislature tomorrow night with the receipts found by DOGE and a demand for spending cuts, combined with a promise to veto of what’s being proposed, laying blame squarely on the legislature for the impending CR expiration and probable government shutdown. Until now, the lying media hasn’t covered the DOGE revelations, but they’ll be unable to hide it after tomorrow night, when the President uses his bully pulpit. If the shutdown happens, 70% of the nation will approve.
I suspect that the speed of DOGE actions has partially been to get as many receipts as possible by tomorrow night, for this very event.
I suspect that his speech will be one nobody will want to miss.
DOGE has upset the government employees by demanding 5 bullet points on what they did last week.
Now, DOGE has no control over Congress, but WE THE PEOPLE do.
Now is the time for the people to start sending demands to their congress person asking for 5 bullet points.
All kidding aside, I would imagine getting into the weeds on this round would require hearings that would simply take too much time.
If I were Johnson, I would announce a schedule for the budget process for 2026 today. This would require a 10% cut in administrative expenses across the board.
The Federal Budget process is Byzantine. Most people have no idea how it works.
trump should veto and let House and Senate have to be the ones who force it through.
"Mike Johnson skips DOGE cuts in stopgap bill, locks in $6.8 trillion spending through October—funds all the pork"
Elections have consequences.
"Chief" Johnson needs to respect the spending fraud being exposed by Trump and Musk by likewise considering returning unjust (unconstitutional) taxes to the people "with interest" (my words), just like repentant chief tax collector Zacchaeus of Luke 19:1-9 did.
“””Just because they allocate the money—doesn’t mean they have to spend it.”””
I would like that to be the case, but the Impoundment Act of 1974 is a roadblock.
“hearings that would simply take too much time”
Too much time for what?
Let the government shut down.
In the real world the President decides what services are deemed essential in a government shut-down and those are funded anyway.
Bonus: Those wackadoodle federal courts are not essential.
Lol.
Agreed—in my view that act is unconstitutional but it has never been tested in the Supreme Court.
We may have to go there—but it is better to make Congress get it correct the first time.
Make America the Same Again?
Make America Go Away?
Speaker Johnson, please explain your deviation from the mandate that sent you there.
What part of smaller government don’t you understand?
I was all for giving you a chance, but this is not the direction I thought we were headed. This is Pelosi’s budget, not ours.
Get your head out of your canteen, and start cutting the fat! Drastically!
What Trump should do during his speech is have the large number of criminals in the House and Senate arrested during his speech and then supply term limit and balanced budget amendments for their immediate approval, both of which go into effect immediately after ratification, requiring new Congressional and Senatorial elections.
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