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GOP Defectors Blow Up House Vote Amid Spending Protest
The Daily Wire ^ | January 10, 2024 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 01/14/2024 6:53:56 AM PST by Twotone

A group of just over a dozen House Republicans helped bring the chamber to a screeching halt on Wednesday in yet another stand against leadership.

Thirteen GOP lawmakers joined with all voting Democrats to help defeat a resolution that would have allowed consideration of a trio of measures that were scheduled for debate this week. Votes for the rest of the day got cancelled.

“The House is essentially frozen again. The GOP leadership cannot bring up any bills that are not already noticed on the suspension calendar. and conservatives just killed leadership’s ability to bring up any bills under a rule,” Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman said in a post to X.

Among the defectors were Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), members who have voiced opposition to a “topline” government spending deal struck between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Democrats that the critics argue does not do enough to rein in the budget.

Greene told CNN that “people at home” do not want Johnson “getting rolled” in negotiations. “That’s not what we want to see out of our speaker,” Greene said,” Otherwise what’s the difference [between] Nancy Pelosi having the gavel and us having the majority?”

Another member who broke ranks, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), posted to X, “No border? No spending,” in an apparent reference to the ongoing push by Republicans to secure border security reforms as migrant crossings spike to record levels.

A government shutdown looms as a two-step continuing resolution (CR) passed in November funds certain federal agencies through January 19 while others would get money through February 2.

The GOP uprising seen on Wednesday is reminiscent of the revolt a small group of Republicans waged against then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) last year, which ended in him losing the gavel. Roy is even saying that he won’t rule out using the same “motion to vacate” mechanism that led to the no-confidence vote resulting in McCarthy’s ouster.

Johnson indicated that he is not concerned about facing a similar fate. “I don’t think I’m in any jeopardy of being vacated. It’s not something I walk around and think about,” the speaker told Fox News.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; defectors; house; mikejohnson; spending
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1 posted on 01/14/2024 6:53:56 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Well you should think about it.


2 posted on 01/14/2024 6:59:48 AM PST by Mr_Peter (The FBI is a criminal organization)
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To: Twotone

Defectors is a trigger word. These elected representatives are being “dutiful “.


3 posted on 01/14/2024 7:01:49 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: Twotone

Someone have a list of all the representatives that joined this? These are the folks that we need to support, and we need a whole bunch more just like them.


4 posted on 01/14/2024 7:06:38 AM PST by Flint
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To: Twotone

Rather weak article on the why.

I wonder why?


5 posted on 01/14/2024 7:06:56 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: Twotone

“migrant crossings”

Well the “Me-grunts” are simply invading now, and it’s violent.

So yeah, that’s a major concern. Which means everything should come to a halt until the Rats no longer can get away with staging this invasion.


6 posted on 01/14/2024 7:07:31 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Twotone

If the Republican can trade spending for true border control, they should go for it.


7 posted on 01/14/2024 7:09:06 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Twotone

They are not “Blowing Up” a damn thing. They are trying to restrain a drunken sailor...liberals tend to attach negative words to anything they don’t understand or like (like NO).


8 posted on 01/14/2024 7:17:39 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Flint

I know! Why write an entire article and just mention two out of 13 representatives?

I’ll try to check this out and post their names if I can find them.


9 posted on 01/14/2024 7:27:59 AM PST by Joann37
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To: Flint

They are listed here in this article. (Sorry for referencing CNN of all places).
Sad to see Jim Jordan is not on the list.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/10/politics/list-hardline-republicans-voted-house-rule/index.html


10 posted on 01/14/2024 7:34:23 AM PST by Joann37
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To: Twotone

The Republicans need to hire Pelosi to run the House. She at least kept them in line.

Unfortunately, the RINOs will always side with the Democrats and continue the spending, the open border, the woke agenda.


11 posted on 01/14/2024 7:34:59 AM PST by oldbill
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To: Twotone

Good. Shut the entire government down until the border is completely closed.

Then maybe we can talk about some funding.

L


12 posted on 01/14/2024 7:35:17 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Flint

And where is Matt Gaetz! He’s the one who blew up McCarthy for the same thing!


13 posted on 01/14/2024 7:36:05 AM PST by Joann37
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To: silent majority rising

“They are not “Blowing Up” a damn thing. They are trying to restrain a drunken sailor...”

Absolutely. Time to shut off their credit card until they get it together.


14 posted on 01/14/2024 7:39:58 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Lurker

Good. Shut the entire government down until the border is completely closed.

Then maybe we can talk about some funding.

L
*******
Wish our side had the votes to do that; but, if we want border control, were gonna have to pay-off some libs with spending to get it.


15 posted on 01/14/2024 7:42:50 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Socon-Econ

“True border control” is impossible without the use of machine guns.

We need to ‘wall off’ our money by middle class income and property tax caps placed in the federal and state constitutions.

Campaigning for these caps will result in many more Republican officeholders.


16 posted on 01/14/2024 8:00:21 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Joann37

That’s a great question…


17 posted on 01/14/2024 8:10:52 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Socon-Econ

“if we want border control, were gonna have to pay-off some libs with spending to get it.”

Our border guards have been turned into social workers.

We need to denounce (officially exit) the Refugee Convention.

Invaders on the south side of a 50-foot-tall Trump wall can use the NGO-supplied cellphone your tax dollars paid for to use an USCIS app to apply for asylum and get let into the USA until their case is heard and appealed.


18 posted on 01/14/2024 8:11:13 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Twotone
No mention anywhere that this "budget compromise" will take the federal debt to $36 trillion by the end of the year.

IMO, this is the Republicans last chance to limit spending, as I think the Democrats will retake the House this November.

19 posted on 01/14/2024 8:18:28 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: TheDon

Because it is by the faux-conservative Daily Wire.


20 posted on 01/14/2024 8:25:05 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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