Posted on 02/13/2025 10:45:30 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that the bipartisan talks aimed at preventing a government shutdown have ended — at least temporarily — and accused GOP leaders in the lower chamber of abandoning the discussions.
“House Republicans have made a decision to walk away from the four-corners discussions that involved House Democrats, Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans related to funding the government in a manner that meets the needs of the American people,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol.
The assertion was a sharp contradiction from the comments coming from the top appropriators in both parties just hours before. On Wednesday afternoon, House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the senior Democrat on the panel, said they were still at the table in search of a bipartisan deal to prevent a shutdown after March 14, when funding expires.
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I can see how it went
House commies: give us whatever we want, USAID back, we need a new yacht
House Republicans: UH, NO, get bent
We should never negotiate with a criminal enterprise.
See my tagline.
His job is to fund raise so of course he going to scream in hysteria. That how he keeps those fat corporate checks and trust fund baby money flowing into his party’s coffers.
Discussion with the Democrats in Congress are a waste of time. They made it clear by their actions these last 3 weeks they are not interested in anything but the status quo
There is something disturbing about Jeffries. He looks to either side every few seconds. 👀
True of organized crime figures.
I mean non Dem organized crime groups.
SHUT IT ALL DOWN!
Send all of the “NON ESSENTIAL” gov emps home.. Stop ALL non essential payments.
Let DOGE scope map and report on everything.
Jeffries is a demoncrap, therefore he is a complete stranger to the truth.
Good, we knew how this was going to turn out. “ the republicans are not serious on spending costs”
OR like street criminals on Chicago PD.
True.
But in Chicago looking around a lot in public shows someone is smart. Keeps them alive a little while longer.
Dime-store obama.
Turnabout is fair play.
The empty suits that didn’t take the buyout are going to be really freaked out when the government gets shut down and the people in charge make sure grannie gets SSI, the docs get medicare paid, and the troops get paid.
Everyone else will be on unpaid leave...
The dems will have their choice — fund a shadow of the nonster government they want or watch the whole thing get de-staffed & fade away.
Clinton did the same thing with Newt.
Negotiated all night and came to an agreement.
Then Billy called a press conference and said the Republicans wouldn’t negotiate
They probably demanded a tranny be allowed and since a tranny was allowed the dems get 2 more slots on the committee.
Because they don’t NEED you. As a party, you are irrelevant.
Jeffries must not be too upset, he left out the silly “Extreme Ultra MAGA Republicans” line.
Democrats are already in the screaming mode now mystery funds evaporating.
Democrats make 170K a year and have 10 million in assets wonder how they do it NOT.
"Jeffries says Republicans ‘walked away’ from spending talks"
Democrat Jeffries unsurprisingly doesn't seem to have a clue about (stubbornly ignores?) the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
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