Posted on 03/22/2024 2:00:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
"More than half of the Republican conference voted against GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's omnibus funding bill, rebuking the leader's efforts to avoid a shutdown ahead of Friday's deadline.
The House voted on the spending package brokered by Johnson on Friday, passing the bill by a vote of 286 to 134.
The bill needed 280 votes to pass. But while the legislation garnered enough bipartisan support to push it to the Senate, 112 House Republicans and 22 House Democrats voted against it.
Only 101 members of Johnson's party voted in favor of the package.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Related:
Interactive of votes for spending bill:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/politics/house-vote-funding-shutdown-dg/index.html
Click on state to sort for your state, etc.
My Congressman Brandon Williams must have voted for it, because he’s not on the list that voted against it. He’s in his first term. They split my district and my old Congresswoman Claudia Tenney took over the new district, and left us with Williams as the new GOP candidate. I voted for him in 2022, but won’t be voting for him this time around. I see Tenney voted against the Bill. I wasn’t too pleased with her when she was my Congresswoman, because she voted for several of the Ukraine money Bills...and so has Williams.
**ONLY** 101 Republicans voted for the bill?
“Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the size of the budget, with conservatives pushing for spending cuts to reduce the national debt, while progressives sought increased spending on social programs and climate change initiatives.”
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-who-voted-against-mike-johnsons-funding-bill-1882382
This might be why the bill got turned round. There has been a real horrible deteremination of the past 20 years (pork) as spending for totally foolish things has reached a point where the only certainty is that liberals are against anything coming from across the aisle and there is so much graft going on on the conservative (?) side that no one can even decide a basic platform. And that is the mistakes of the voters by not telling their employees what they want and firing them if they don’t do it.
wy69
“Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the size of the budget, with conservatives pushing for spending cuts to reduce the national debt, while progressives sought increased spending on social programs and climate change initiatives.”
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-who-voted-against-mike-johnsons-funding-bill-1882382
This might be why the bill got turned round. There has been a real horrible deteremination of the past 20 years (pork) as spending for totally foolish things has reached a point where the only certainty is that liberals are against anything coming from across the aisle and there is so much graft going on on the conservative (?) side that no one can even decide a basic platform. And that is the mistakes of the voters by not telling their employees what they want and firing them if they don’t do it.
wy69
There is no shortage of Assist. ‘Rats in the House.
lol. Newsweak posted this as a negative. Have they not figured out it helps us figure out who to vote for?
Traitorous SOB Gallagher voted for the spending bill.
btt
Praise be to Manchin & Sinema for not killing the Senate filibuster, when they could have.
Yea! Didn’t see mine.
As I see it, the real news here is that Mike Johnson is exactly the kind of politician that got us where we are today.
No guts, no balls, no white hat.
And Johnson threw away some leverage:
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1771014442060271802?s=20
McCarthy: “Miss me yet?” 🙄
“No guts, no balls, no white hat.”
Mike Johnson has no choice but to make a deal with Democrats. If congress causes a government shutdown, the GOP is to blame. If the deal is passed, the GOP is to blame because this is not a budget. It’s putting out a fire and at least half of the problems are still floating in space.
But he did ask for border funding to stay and said he would talk with the libs about Ukrainian funding after the bill went into effect and the government remained in operation and in a separate spending package to prevent a government shutdown on Friday. Those were the two issues hit in the conservtive congress and he is still sitting on them and won’t budge at this point.
Johnson is trapped by previous legislation that was passed prior to his taking the hot seat. Congress can keep throwing people into the spot until they run out of republicans, but they can’t change history unless they are liberal. He could easily have said when he entered the seat, “Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin.”
wy69
Negotiate. Continuing resolution every 30 days.
You are saying, essentally, that there is no solution. Just rock on andsmile for the media.
I could not disagree more, but I am not in the mood to write abook on the subject tonight.
So.....goodnight.
“You are saying, essentally, that there is no solution. Just rock on andsmile for the media.”
There is no solution with the players we have. While both sides are satisfied with stalemate, we lose ground. The fine line of pleasing their constituents includes pleasing each other too much. Johnson by what he is doing is getting border funding, and being willing to discuss Ukraine funding, but it would have to be separate from other money to earmark. And those were what he said he would do with the vote of the conservatives and has been consistent with the house conservatives’ desires. The shutdown of the government is the threat and he is giving the liberals very little time to argue about it. They will eiher have to support his efforts, with conservative support voted for already, or the libs are shut down for all their little pork programs they have been stealing in the past that are not already paid in full.
And that’s how government works. It hasn’t been working together since the founders. It’s been choking out money from each other ever since as there has always been two sides eager only to share their differences and not the burden of the country’s needs to get votes to keep their jobs. (Bribery) And as long as the people of one state are just as greedy as the next one from getting it so easy, it’ll stay that way. And there will always be that way as they want more on the their table, or that new car, so they elect the ones (both sides) that give it to them instead of just earning it. And the leaders of tomorrow are taught that coming up so it is going to get more competitive with thinner worth. And that’s why our growth is stymied. Vote in success, not standoff.
And that’s what makes people like Trump different. He didn’t back off and both sides were scared to death of him because he didn’t care who was wrong. And all that got him was attacks and efforts to destroy him from both sides. So who are the conservatives representing. Certainly isn’t who they say they are. And that’s why Johnson can’t put out all the fires with one bill. But it can take care of two problems we have allowed outselves to get into. I’d say that’s a good day’s work.
wy69
“Negotiate. Continuing resolution every 30 days.”
What he is doing is forcing the liberals to negotiate on equal terms. And I would rather have a month long budget that accomplishes positive actions than a yearly that hammers honest working people by giving it to those that don’t. Maybe at some point in that monthly negotiation, they might get next month’s, or a year’s compromise on some things that favor both sides because the way it is now is not near that. And no one is happy right now at the voter levels, at all.
wy69
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