Becuase you've been told to think that.
He has a voice, and he could voice his objections that the Budget Committee must start producing a budget that lowere the spending.
Not while it's in committee. He does offer amendments. It's not Massie's fault that the rest of Congress refuses to cut spending.
And he also pushes for individual, single-subject spending bills instead of omnibus bills.
Massie works to achieve what President Trump says he wants to do, despite the legislature. He's offered bills to codify the DOGE cuts. Johnson buried it.
this only comes up when they want to shutdown the government.
That is untrue. it comes up every time they want to consider spending.
Massie introduced a bill co codify the DOGE cuts. He introduced a bill to kill the automobile kill switch. He's introduced many such bills. It's not his fault that the RINOs and Dhimmicraps team up to kill them. Yet you use that to attack him.
I have no one feeding me my opinions
And yet you completely regurgitate whatever "your team" says at any given moment.
Present just some of those items
Net increase in spending: ~$368 billion over 10 years
The bill is widely scored by independent and nonpartisan analysts as adding to the federal deficit.
It appropriates $10 billion per fiscal year in new spending to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 2026-2030 ($50 billion over five years) to disperse.
Exempts states with up to a 6% error rate form the matching funds requirement for SNAP.
It extends the ARC program through the 2031 crop year. It also increases the coverage guarantee level from 86% to 90% of the benchmark revenue and increases the maximum payment amount from 10% to 12.5% of the benchmark revenue.
Extends the Marketing Assistance Loan (MAL) program nonrecourse and recourse loans through the 2031 crop year.
Increases certain crop insurance premium subsidies
And others. It's an 850-page bill that cuts certain items but increases many others and increases overall spending and debt.
CBO projects the bill will increase the budget deficit by roughly $4.7 trillion over ten years, even accounting for tariff revenues and spending changes.
Tied to the bill is a large increase in the federal debt limit (several trillion dollars)
When interest costs and other costs are factored, it is estimated that it will require $4.1 trillion or more in additional borrowing.
There have been no formal charges against these people to out them publicly. Besides that Ro Kahanna just released a buinch of names.
Good. But we need ALL of them. If they're not fully released, unredacted, soon, Massie will read them all. He would prefer that DOJ simply unredacted them, as his (and Khanna's) law requires.
you do not know if Epstein trafficked anybody to anyone.
Are you serious? That's what Maxwell's conviction was for -- trafficking. You seem very eager to make sure we never find out about it. What are you scard of? Who are you so eager to protect?
Why the animus towards Virginia Giuffre, who said President Trump never did anything wrong? It appears you automatically disbelieve any and all of these women. Again, who are you protecting?
It was a brilliant show of force that successfully removed a criminal who has been responsible for the deaths of of millions of Americans via drug overdose..
Then why are we leaving his regime in place?
So we can just declare any head of state a criminal and go remove him or her? Taht sounds a little dangerous, even from a leader with teh best of intentions like President Trump. Imagine Newscum or Whitler applying that same policy. Or AOC.
As I said before you & MNassie are troo gnorant to recognize when this nation is at war
More falsehods from you. Why not admit we're at war with China and Iran and go get their leaders?
we are being attacked asymmetrically, not millitarilly.
True, but there's no real difference. Do you mean to tell me that the means by which we're being attacked changes teh constitutional responsibilities and rules of how we respond to that attack?
the majority by all measures won this election with a mandate on the campaign issues that he stated. Therefore, Massie, as well as, all legislators have a responsibility to carry out those campaign promises that we voted him to carry out.
That's not how it works. Taht's exactly why we don't have a parliamentary system like Britain (which as more members of hte House of Commons than we have members of teh House of Representatives, BTW.)
Massie and the other 434 members were elected to represent the interests of their constituents, not just to follow the president wherever he may go. It's not an executive-driven system or a party-driven system. The Framers divided power on purpose.
As teh great Edmund Burke said, "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays you instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
Because he has sway over other RINOs.
Dumb answer. Lindsey Graham has about a 60% support rating, whereas Massie's is in teh 90s. Yet you support Lindsey and oppose Massie becuase POTUS told you to.
Cuba is teetering exactly because of the operation executed to bring Nicolas Maduro to stand trial as a narco-terrorist
That's a factor; Cuba was teetering before that.
Iran is teetering because of the citizenry, and that may have been spraked by their declining power
Thank you for proving my point.
The Omnibus bill that they approved for Biden, created the problem to begin with
True -- and Massie opposed it. And that doesn't mean we shoudl just continue those irresponsible, insane, dangerous spending levels. Massie voted against those levels of spending under Biden and under Trump. Everyone else (virtually) flipped on it, depending on who was in office.
Actually it does empower hiom to do what he peomised he would do
Again, no, he's not empowered to do just any old thing he wants to do. Congress has a say; you seem to think their duty is to just play follow the leader. That totally undermines the constitutional design of our governmental system. He's not just automatically empowered to do whatever he may have promised unless Congress supports it. No President is.
Remember when 0bama told John McCain to shut up becuase he won? He no more had he power to just do what he wanted without any opposition than Trump does or Biden did.
They are Democrat talking points and the radicals are are the people Massie is siding with.
Repeating this over and over won't make it true.
The remaining screed from you is nothing more than an exercise in omission & deceptive debating. So, I will stop here.
Now move along. I do not like Massie, I do not think he does a darn thing for this nation, and I think he is a RINO.
You are free to state your opinion about him, just as I am to state mine. But you still are ignorant if you think that the Epsteinn issue is importatn, and more oimportant than the real issues that face this nation.
If this nation falls, you will deserve what will happen when that happens. I guarantee that uyou will understand why Epstein is not worth the efforts being wasted on the issue. There are far more important issues.
You reminder me of Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, only you aren't a leader. Instead, you are just a follower.