Posted on 04/27/2017 4:07:36 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON (AP) Congress is doing the bare minimum to keep the country running, readying a short-term spending bill to keep the lights on in government past Saturday, when President Donald Trump will mark his 100th day in office.
The short-term legislation will carry through next week, giving lawmakers more time to complete negotiations on a $1 trillion government-wide spending bill for the remainder of the 2017 budget year. The government is currently operating under spending legislation that expires Friday at midnight, so action is required before then.
In addition to the failure to come up with a spending deal that could pass ahead of Trumps 100-day mark, the House GOP looked unlikely to give Trump a victory on health care before then. A revised health care bill has won the support of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, holdouts on an earlier version that collapsed last month, but GOP leaders were struggling to round up votes from moderate-leaning Republicans.
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The swamp draining of Congress is up to us.
We MUST Cantorize the weasels.
There will be no improvement in Congress until we do.
Heaven Forbid we let 17% of the government shut down....
I mean it would be absolute pandemonium!
Exactly as it should be.
For the last 100 years, they've done far more than is necessary and now we have Leviathan/Gangster government.
I mean it would be absolute pandemonium!
Once again the RATs say "Boo!" and the stupid party faints
Once again Jon Ossoff’s body double fails epically
TERM LIMITS!!!!!!! It’s the only way to clean out this swamp.
I remember a man that came to Washington vowing a couple dozen times to drain the swamp. I wonder what ever happened to him.
PRyno, Mr. Budget Wonk, needs to be fired.
Its what they do best!
Are you advocating for the Executive to take over the Legislature?
He’s dead. I recall the SC in May 1995 voted 5-4 to not to allow term limits to be placed on Congress persons. Not a good end for what was fought for
The Gang of 535, aka CONgre$$, sure like the paychecks and benefits. They should all RESIGN. 320+ million Americans. We all know better Americans than these creeps.
I’ve read Ryan remains popular in his district. We may hate him for the rino snake that he is but l don’t see him losing the Speaker. He’s and his gang of “moderates” are as big a problem as Chuckee Schmukee
Chuck Schumer looks like a character in a Hieronymous Bosch painting.
Actually whenever the Rats meet it looks like a Bosch painting.
Why not? The "Legislature" these days doesn't seem
to be able to do its job. The Democrats did not seem to mind
when their Executive started legislating with his
executive orders the previous eight years. Maybe Trump should
do the same.
We have term limits, we just have to use them.
Stop voting for weasels.
We showed you how it is done in June of 2014 when we kicked out the sitting Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary.
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