Posted on 08/15/2023 6:20:38 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
Washington (AP) — Congressional leaders are pitching a stopgap government funding package to avoid a federal shutdown after next month, acknowledging the House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending levels to keep federal operations running.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the idea of a months-long funding package, known as a continuing resolution, to House Republicans on a members-only call Monday evening, according to those familiar with the private session and granted anonymity to discuss it.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the two leaders had spoken about such a temporary measure. It would extend federal funding operations into December to allow more time to work on the annual spending bills.
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Whoa!
One did not know THAT!
SCKO PRVRTO!
He can get pointers in his transition from former Congressman Adam Kinzinger.
Here we go again...
And I thought a few months ago they funded EVERYTHING up to 2025?!?!?
Maybe their secret Congressional slush funds ran low and they have to refill them.
Of course he does.
Vacate the chair.
Shut down every gov’t agency except the military.
Start by freezing Congressional paychecks.
Then, every three and four letter agency.
Impeach Garland, Biden, and Harris for treason.
Disband the FBI completely.
Demand the end to the witch hunt indictments.
When all this is done, fund the government at 75% of what it was.
I no longer like MTG. Women should be home barefoot and pregnant anyway. Repeal the 19th. McCarthy alone is female enough in the GOP House.
I recall hearing, that part of the deal which made McCarthy speaker, was that it would be easy for members to make a motion to vacate the chair. Then the speaker position would be vacant, and a new vote for speaker would be required.
Is that agreement still in effect on binding on Congress? As I recall , the talk was that even a single Republican member of Congress could make this motion to vacate the chair and call for a new vote.
Even if the 19th Amendment were repealed , women would still be given the right to vote by individual states.
More pole dancing.
My SIL was home last week on leave. He’s in the 82nd. He said trans are everywhere.
These were Democratic highlights for the current fiscal year:
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HIGHLIGHTS%20DOCUMENT%20FY%2023.pdf
Another congress-created fake crisis. Who really worries about this stuff?
I keep going back and forth if, because of the indictments, this is the best time to fight for real budgetary change. Would the 24hr news cycle be too exhausted to drum up the typical pho-outrage?
“Is that agreement still in effect on binding on Congress? As I recall , the talk was that even a single Republican member of Congress could make this motion to vacate the chair and call for a new vote.”
Yes, and that’s one of the concessions Gaetz fought for.
I thought McCarthy agreed to put an end to the omnibus spending bills and go back to separate department spending bills.
The only reason to be at this point now is if Jeffries and Schumer are playing McCarthy to squeeze him into this situation now. McCarthy's best play is to stick to the specific spending bills (let the government shut down one office at a time) and let this become the senile Mitch McConnell's problem.
I want the rest of the Senate Republicans to watch how McConnell reacts to Schumer's manipulations of McConnell and see how much longer they're going to stay quiet while McConnell continues to "give the farm away" to protect the virginity of his beloved Senate.
Eventually a reconciliation bill will be sent back to the House. Whether this becomes an omnibus bill in the Senate remains to be seen. If it does, that's on McConnell and the rest of the Republican Senate leadership. Then it's on McCarthy to reject the Senate omnibus bill and send back the separate House bills as before.
Bottom line... McCarthy needs to start looking out for himself and not protect McConnell in the Senate. The others in the Senate have to fix the "McConnell problem" for themselves without the Democrats maneuvering to use any government crisis to press a wedge between the Republicans of both chambers.
It should be more than evident now that Republicans are just wired to think differently than the Democrats, and the Democrats know and exploit that.
-PJ
There is no such thing as a government shutdown.
The bits Deep State wants to keep going get deemed essential and don’t shut down.
That’s most of the bleeping government.
The only things that might get closed down are the ones that could be used to stick it to the the taxpaying public.
“Congressional leaders” is an oxymoron.
Didn’t they just do this (and got rolled for their effort)?
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