Gimme that "fallout" for Christmas, please.
It hasn't been so bad for Javier Milei!
Posted on 12/19/2024 5:35:27 AM PST by Red Badger
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested Wednesday that Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that strays from the bipartisan deal announced a day before, accusing GOP leaders of reneging on the agreement at risk of a government shutdown.
In a brief statement, Jeffries invoked the growing conservative outcry over the negotiated continuing resolution (CR) — including opposition from President-elect Trump — and warned Republicans that they will “own” the economic and political fallout if a shutdown occurs.
“House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government. And hurt the working class Americans they claim to support,” Jeffries posted on social platform X. “You break the bipartisan agreement, you own the consequences that follow.”
The warning arrives as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), under heavy pressure from conservatives on and off Capitol Hill, is considering a move to scrap the negotiated CR and shift to a “clean” bill that drops many of the additional provisions agreed to by the two parties. That list includes economic help for the nation’s farmers and $100 billion in emergency aid for victims of natural disasters around the country.
Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump loyalist who’s leading a cost-cutting project under the incoming president, is helping to lead the charge in opposition to the larger package. And Trump, along with Vice President-elect JD Vance, joined that chorus Wednesday afternoon in a statement urging Johnson and GOP leaders to torpedo the bipartisan deal and pass a thinner package. They also want Republicans to include an increase in the debt ceiling.
“Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling,” Trump and Vance said.
“Anything else is a betrayal of our country.”
The pressure campaign is just the latest headache for Johnson and GOP leaders, who are scrambling to extend government funding before Friday’s shutdown deadline while containing the outcry from conservative House Republicans who have long criticized Johnson for negotiating too readily with Democrats on spending bills.
Opposition from House Democrats to a “clean” CR would leave Johnson with little room for GOP defections given the hairline margins in the lower chamber. Uniting his fractious GOP conference could be a heavy lift given that a number of Republican lawmakers have never voted for a CR and wouldn’t be eager to break that streak this month, even with Trump’s encouragement.
Democrats, meanwhile, seem ready to let GOP leaders manage on their own whatever repercussions follow if they abandon the bipartisan package for a partisan bill.
“They’re in charge,” said Rep. Jim McGovern (Mass.), senior Democrat on the powerful Rules Committee. “They have to figure it out.”
Across the Capitol, Senate Democrats are also hammering the Republicans for their last-minute reversal, accusing GOP leaders of caving to demands of figures who aren’t even in power yet.
“I don’t think, with all due respect, that President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance should be controlling the process in any way at this point,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said. “They’ll have plenty of opportunity over four years to raise the debt limit, or to seek to raise the debt limit, or anything else that they will try to do, unwise as it may be.
“They ought to be in office before they start dictating what we should be doing.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also blasted Trump’s late lobbying, wondering why the president-elect hadn’t weighed in during the weeks of negotiations that led up to Tuesday’s spending agreement.
“They come in and undermine us two days before the government shutdown deadline?” she asked. “That doesn’t seem like, at all, a good way to do business.”
Good.
The Dinosaur media could not stop Trump, they will not stop his agenda. Finally someone on the Right figured out how to out due the Left in messaging and pressure politics
Gimme that "fallout" for Christmas, please.
It hasn't been so bad for Javier Milei!
Does anyone know who the Republican negotiators for this bill are? There seems to be the problem. Not just Johnson, he isn’t doing the heavy lifting. He’s got people for that.
Very true, Mark!
What if they shut down the government, and few (if any) Trump voters even noticed?
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Over the last four years, the Democrats have raided 25% of our lifetime savings, and for what? Enriching and empowering bureaucrats at the expense of everybody and everything respectively.
I'm not forgetting that any time soon.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Biden is not able to lead.
In roughly two weeks, Republicans take both the House and Senate - just wait
i agree. a shutdown until the new Congress is a-ok. call the Dems bluff. having Congress work over the holidays pleases me somehow. to think there was a pay raise IN YESTERDAY’S BILL - HOW TONE DEAF CAN YOU BE??
I am so sick of DIMocRAT duplicity and spendthrift ways. They despise Free America and American Citizens. They obviously didn’t put together a 1500+ page bill over the past few weeks. I bet not one of the miscreants in congress read the whole thing. What we have there is business as usual with the taxpayers taking it up the a**. What an outrage!
Can YOU send me a cr to get me through the rest of the year?
No?
Then how about you all learn to live within your budget?
Wait, you don’t have a budget?
Congress has not passed one since fubo?
OK then.. how about you DO YOUR FRIGGIN JOB!
Pass budgets... impeach rogue judges... reduce waste...
Neither will I.
Mark, I hope you and your lovely family have a Merry Christmas and a very productive and prosperous New Year!
Fine, let the Dems shut down government. With a clean bill, it’s ALL out in the open for perhaps the first time ever.
Psst Republicans, Hakeem is NOT YOUR FRIEND.
Whatever he says, do the opposite.
Pass the clean CR, then go on every possible channel and blame the shutdown (if it happens) on the Democrats.
Shut it down and start deleting programs and departments. Delete, delete, delete.
How appropriate that the Biden regime will go out with a government shut down!
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