Posted on 12/18/2024 3:05:58 PM PST by Paul R.
President-elect Trump joined Elon Musk in opposing House Speaker Mike Johnson's proposed bill to keep the government funded.
Trump released a statement with Vice-president elect J.D. Vance, writing, "Republicans must get smart and tough. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then call their bluff."
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I’ll be out for a while. Back later, I hope. (Busy day.)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
@RepMTG
Votes are cancelled tonight.
No communication, planning, or conference meetings have been called.
I don’t know another Republican member who gave any input into the 1,500+ page CRomnibus bill.
We did not know what was in the text until the bill was released last night.
I am very grateful to all the Americans who dove into reading the bill text along with Elon and Vivek and made their voices heard!
If you all keep reading all our bills, with your support and pressure, we can save our country! So thank you 🙏
To be clear, the 1,500+ pages released last night were added spending items on top of the CR (continuing resolution) of the 2023 two part omnibus.
A clean 3 month CR would extend the policies and programs funded in the two part 2023 omnibus which totaled $1.66 trillion. So that CR (1/4 of total) would cost approx $415 billion.
Then you would have to add on the extra cost of the items in the 1,500 page bill from last night. We don’t know how much that is!
So I can’t even tell you what the full cost of that proposed CRomnibus would be!
In my opinion, the Americans that need help are the victims of natural disasters like Hurricane Helene and our farmers.
And those relief packages should go to the floor separately asap.
We work for the American people, we should help the American people.
They should not be used as trading pawns between Republicans and Democrats to get what each side wants.
And as far as the rest of the government funding goes, we can’t work it out unless we all get in the room and work it out together.
And I haven’t heard anything on that.
Johnson is a feckless punk.
Go, Donald!
BTTT
It is high darn (insert proper word here) time that the Blackmail Bank of America is destroyed, the Officers and Board of Directors exposed, and all “account holders” prosecuted for criminal actions, whether they were entrapped or not. That can be sorted out in the courts.
Johnson is either: a) stupid; b) incompetent; c) a wolf in sheep’s clothing; d) a believer in nothing; and/or e) under blackmail or a combination of several of these factors. Who on his staff could have put this brainless mess together, especially in view of the election seven weeks ago?
Compromised and bought off. He wouldn’t have his role if he weren’t.
Fascinating.
He did the opposite of using his bully pulpit for the good of his country. He instead bullied and threatened those who wanted to do good.
What a pos.
Nice to have a President again!
And a badass one at that.
It’s what this sliding into communism country needs!
Government shutdown is an oxymoron.
There is no such thing.
Derp State deems essential whatever it wants to keep running, and shutters whatever it wants to stick it to recalcitrant taxpayers.
Shoeless and macturtle bill that the pos house leader just said ok to! No reading it, no debate, just Swamp business at screwing the tax payer as usual!
I saw that idiot Kevin McCarthy on TV last night saying this was a bad bill.
Hmmmm, didn’t he do the sane thing and lost his job?
Moron.
Yes, but, if they shut down the government, all of those non-essential government employees — who are home instead of going to the offices — might find their paychecks delayed.
It is tough to be a non-essential government employee.
And it’s Christmas! O the hugh manatee!!!!
What the hell are you talking about?
As Gordon Ramsey would say,”Just shut it down!”
Congress would do well to remember that there is now an oversight committee 80+ million strong, and Elon and Vivek are co-Chairmen of the Board.
“Johnson is a liar and a thief just like all the rest.”
Who ever thought anything else?
But Trump is fixin’ to make him a better man lol
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