Posted on 12/18/2024 12:47:48 PM PST by 11th_VA
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is threatening to hold up a short-term funding package that needs to pass by the end of the day Friday to avoid a government shutdown unless leaders in Congress agree to vote on amendments to offset the cost of new spending in the proposal.
Paul has significant leverage to force colleagues to vote on spending cuts because congressional leaders are late in unveiling the continuing resolution, which is expected to fund the government until March 14.
The House may not even vote on the package until Wednesday or Thursday, which means Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will need the cooperation of all 99 other senators to get it through the Senate by the end-of-week deadline.
But Paul says he won’t yield back time on the floor unless Schumer guarantees fiscal hawks a full debate and opportunity to vote on amendments to offset the cost of new spending in the proposal.
“I can’t anticipate giving any time of consent to condense time without debate and debate means amendments. We’ll probably put forward some pay-fors,” Paul told The Hill, flagging green-energy subsidies as spending that could be cut to offset the cost of disaster relief for North Carolina and other states hit hard by recent hurricanes.
“There are some big existing pay-fors and I think they should be forced to decide: Do you want to help the people in Asheville or do you want to help green-energy companies, multimillion-dollar companies with subsidies for green energy? There’s about $4 billion out there in that,” he said.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday warned that weekend work for the Senate was becoming a real possibility given the delays with the funding measure...
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Weekend work?! Oh how f’in horrible .
1) No budget or CR until Trump and the Republicans take over. If not that, then
2) A very brief CR to keep the doors open until late January/early February, with no spending beyond those dates stated in the CR, so Trump and the Republicans can take over from there.
3) The least favorite is the CR isn't passed, thus it goes back to the House, and a new and even worse budget or CR is passed, with language stating that the spending details are for a year, set in place before Trump gets in office, making it harder for Trump to undo it.
Controlled Resistance Mouse, giving the thrill in a room full of cats.
SHUT IT DOWN!
Why can’t they just do the JOB they are elected and paid to do?
What’s the worst thing that would happen if there was no CR until Jan 20?
They don’t work over the holidays and we’re only talking about “non essential” services.
Because they do not work for any of us.
BETRAYAL. GOP Rift Opens Over Social Security Bill
CAN YOU WORK TILL 70? TO FUND PORK?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/republicans-social-securitybill-senate/2024/12/18/id/1192079/
NO, NO, H NO! YOU SPENT OUT SS, MEDICARE ON ILLEGALS, LTBQ, AND PORK, MIDDLE MEN. YOU STOLE OUR REITREMENT. MY HUSBAND’S TINY MILITARY PENSION DOESN’T AMOUNT TO A HILL OF BEANS. YOU LET THAT SENILE FOOL BANKRUPT AMERICA, FOR HIS UKRAINE WAR AND ILLEGALS.
KICK THE BIDEN’S OF SS THEY GET $50 K A YEAR, PLUS HIS PRESIDENTIAL RETIREMENT. Joe Biden in Line for a $413,000 Dual Pension Payout upon Departing the Presidency.
Upon leaving the White House, presidents have generally been financially well-off and are afforded numerous opportunities for lucrative book deals, speeches, or other money-making endeavors. Regardless of the net worth of former presidents, they are entitled to an annual pension equivalent to the salary of a cabinet secretary, currently $246,400 in 2024 and often adjusted annually.
There is also a completely separate pension program available for members of Congress. President Joe Biden previously served in the Senate for 36 years and another eight years as Vice President, a role which serves as presiding officer in the Senate, making him eligible for a starting pension worth $166,374.
Biden is eligible to collect both pensions, for a combined payout that could start at $412,774, before any 2025 adjustment of the presidential pension (which won’t be known until late December).
Hawely is pushing a 150% Child Tax Credit increase.
SHUT IT DOWN. There is nothing to lose at this point.
There are terrible things in this bill other than the spending. Do not push for a pass please.
The more I hear about that bill the worse it gets. Let the government shut down Mr. Speaker.
Shut it down bump.
Let them earn their raise.
They need to start cutting spending and/or offset any new spending. This has got to stop.
Yep, time to change the way things have been done for decades.
Its his usual bluff .
Has Rand actually shut a thing down ever ?
Video
Fox News is reporting that
Elon Musk’s outspoken opposition to the CR spending bill and his threats of supporting primary challenges may have just derailed the bill
https://rumble.com/v60nh2w-elon-musks-outspoken-opposition-to-the-cr-spending-bill-may-have-just-derai.html
No - you’re right.
He makes a lot of noise and looks like he has a lot of creds... but so does Jim Jordan.
Neither actually does anything, but they sound good.
Trump opposes it and says “IT MUST NOT PASS!”
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