Posted on 10/12/2025 6:22:07 AM PDT by RandFan
House GOP leaders are facing increasing pressure to bring the chamber back to Washington amid a shutdown fight with no end in sight.
A growing number of GOP lawmakers are voicing frustrations with their leadership for prolonging the House recess, warning that the optics surrounding that inactivity could backfire on the party to the benefit of Democrats.
The rumbling is creating a headache for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team, who have made canceling votes a central part of the Republicans’ shutdown strategy. In doing so, they’re betting that an empty House will pile pressure on Senate Democrats to drop their opposition to a GOP spending bill and help reopen the government.
But as the shutdown crept into its second week, neither side has given an inch, causing federal workers to receive diminished paychecks on Friday and threatening a similar pay squeeze on military personnel, who are at risk of missing their first scheduled paycheck next Wednesday.
Those pressure points have only amplified the calls from within the GOP conference for Johnson to reconvene the chamber, if only to move legislation to ensure the troops are compensated.
“Military pay should not be held hostage due to Washington’s dysfunction!” Rep. Jen Kiggans, a Virginia Republic
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“Given the scale of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, which victimized thousands of women and girls and reached around the globe, it is preposterous and unacceptable that only Epstein himself and Ghislaine Maxwell have faced prosecution. There is no doubt that the Trump administration’s ongoing coverup of the Epstein files is giving comfort to the pedophiles and accomplices who were a part of his sex trafficking ring,” Senator Wyden wrote. “The Treasury records shine a light on how high-profile individuals paid Epstein staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in dubious transactions indicative of money laundering. They also show how U.S. financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein’s criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law. Financial institutions, attorneys and agents actively participated in Epstein’s illegal operations or were grossly negligent. They must all be held accountable.”
I’m pretty sure the reporting is done automatically by computerized means.
In other words...please come back and save my job.
He should call them back, not because of the shutdown - he already passed his part of the CR, but because we still don’t have a budget for future years so they can work on the spending and appropriation bills. Those bills are basically their primary responsibility which they haven’t accomplished in decades.
He should call them back, not because of the shutdown - he already passed his part of the CR, but because we still don’t have a budget for future years so they can work on the spending and appropriation bills. Those bills are basically their primary responsibility which they haven’t accomplished in decades.
Or better yet, you can start your own website.
This is the Far lefty Hill Sheet Toilet paper. Don’t sweat the bit about the GOOBERs starting to crumble. Just continue to stand tall.
You say, “If he blacklists the sHill, Politico etc. it would be an echo chamber here and BORING quite frankly.”
I say, FR existed for twenty years with only an occasional reference to left wing sites. Now it seems that Conservative sites are avoided and left wing sites are slowly becoming the majority.
Fair enough, but please don’t ever accuse me of censorship again.
Go back and read about Jes staley. He has been investigated by the UK. Read about how people at his bank saw issues and he shut them down vouching for Epstein.
Leon blacks SARs were not provided by the bank until after Epstein died
The Treasury files are going to show a tangled web of intrigue. Not sure the peon public will ever know the real truth behind Epstein and the powerful people. I have no doubt Bessent was involved in the web. Not saying he was involved with girls. He is gay. But like I said ..girls are a minor player in the Epstein story.
Would someone please explain to me why anyone seriously believes that Deep State would leave the Trump admin with files that hadn’t been tampered with?
Jeez louise, people.
Jen Kiggans’ district pretty much surrounds Norfolk and has a lot of navy people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s_2nd_congressional_district
If you are complaining, ignore this thread and post your own articles from "conservative" sites.
As simple as that.
Are you claiming they inserted false fincen documents? And then created false documents at each bank involved with the transaction. thousands of them?
There is a trail. Perhaps someone might try to delete one of the trails . I am sure shenanigans took place during the laundering of billions but some of this will exist.
“On September 17, 2025, US congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky claimed during a House hearing featuring testimony from FBI Director Kash Patel that Staley was on a list of at least 20 prominent men that Jeffrey Epstein had sex trafficked young women and girls to, and that this list was in FBI possession.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes_Staley
I believe Massey mentioned him because he has been in the “system “over this. He recently lost some kind of appeal in the UK over his shenanigans.
The funding bill sits in the US Senate. The House has already passed it. No need to revisit.
“Now it seems that Conservative sites are avoided and left wing sites are slowly becoming the majority.”
“The Hill” tends to post stories fast, is not paywalled, and doesn’t try to gobble up a large percentage of my 12GB 30-day data allowance.
And there simply is a shortage of conservative sites. The media has been mainly leftist since the Great Depression nearly 100 years ago.
Call them back to do what exactly? They already passed a clean CR.
The House completed its role
The constipated Senate is scrabbling for excuses to NOT do its job
depends on one’s agenda.
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