Yup, another kick-the-can continuing resolution spending bill has passed the House. This extension lasts until March 1st and 8th.
The short-term CR negotiated in part by House Speaker Mike Johnson, passed the House on a 314-108 vote margin. 207 Democrats and 107 Republicans voted for it. Yes, that’s correct; more democrats supported the CR than republicans, and this is with a republican house majority.
It’s a Democrat CR bill being brought up by a Republican House Speaker and passed by the UniParty. Almost half of the Republicans voted against it (106), while just 2 Democrats voted no. The DC UniParty in its full glory.
“Our Speaker, Mr. Johnson, said he was the most conservative speaker we’ve ever had, and yet here we are, putting this bill on the floor,” said. Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona in a floor speech ahead of the vote, adding that the situation is what “led to us to vacate Speaker McCarthy in the first place.”
WASHINGTON DC – On a 314-108 House vote, Congress just bought six more weeks to continue the fiscal 2024 funding fight. But even the new March government shutdown deadlines are going to be a challenge to meet.
STEP 1: ANOTHER NUMBERS DEAL — Top Hill leaders might have agreed on overall spending levels nearly two weeks ago, but appropriators can’t get to work writing legislation until the two appropriations chairs — Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) — work out their own deal on how to divvy up the topline number among the 12 individual bills, setting what’s known among wonks as the 302(b)s.
It’s been slow going, and other top appropriators are growing impatient. “I have no insights as to why it’s taking so long,” said Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine). “I’m very concerned.” As to whether there’s enough time for Congress to meet the split March 1/March 8 deadlines: “I think there is if we get the allocations promptly next week,” Collins said.
People familiar with the process have stressed that negotiating subcommittee allocations typically takes a while. Speaking before the Senate passed the latest stopgap earlier this afternoon, Murray said she’s “working nonstop” with her House counterparts to keep things “moving as quickly as we possibly can.”
STEP 2: ENTER THE SUBCOMMITTEES — Once the 302(b)s are set, the 12 appropriations subcommittee chairs and ranking members will start trading offers on how to distribute their allocations among each department, agency and program in their jurisdiction, while also haggling over potential policy stipulations.
For several of the bills, that’s going to be a challenge, considering the vast differences between the measures that the House and Senate each pumped out last year.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the State-Foreign Operations panel, told us that he and GOP counterpart Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have a lot of daylight to close in negotiations with their peers across the Capitol. “Lindsey and I work well together,” he said. “But the gap between our bill in the Senate and the House is pretty significant. So once we have allocations, there’s still a lot of work to do.”
STEP 3: RIDER TIME — House conservatives, who’ve failed for months to secure steep spending cuts, say they’re hellbent on securing major policy wins, such as anti-abortion provisions and immigration restrictions that are dead on arrival for the Democratic-controlled Senate. They have backing from Johnson, who just last Sunday said the new funding patch will buy time to fight for “meaningful policy wins” while cajoling Republicans to support the latest stopgap.
As our Alice Miranda Ollstein and Meredith Lee Hill report today, House Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said many in the House Republican conference will be “disappointed and upset” if the speaker doesn’t win on anti-abortion language, arguing that House Republicans “should get at least half of what we want.”
STEP 4: PASS IT OR BUST — If lawmakers fail to pass full-year appropriations bills over the next six weeks, senior appropriators are warning that will mean yet another continuing resolution — this time, through the rest of the fiscal year. They are counting on the threat of flat budgets and potentially devastating cuts to avert that outcome.
A continuing resolution through Sept. 30, for instance, would cut non-defense budgets by a total of $73 billion from current levels. Separately, lawmakers are facing another potential “sequester” scenario, thanks to a provision baked into the debt limit package passed last year. If the government is operating under any short-term CR come April 30, there will be a $10 billion cut to the military’s budget and a $41 billion cut to domestic programs. (MORE)
Madness…..
Complete and utter dysfunction.
Retired Magistrate here: Johnson; McCarthy with a cross.
So was Johnson against the Colorado Rockies? He didn’t lie, did he?
Murica… f*ck yeah!!!!
See you all in the gulag, peasants.
Oh dear!
What should I wear?
Dress warm for the occasion and remember your soap on a rope.
Pearls are perfect for the undecided. Always acceptable while showing a touch of class..🙃
Out of curiosity, did you spend any time in Puerto Rico? Or wrong Geagan?
Vacate Mr. Johnson NOW
No way the conservatives get 2/3 of the House to vacate the chair. The Democrats love Johnson and so do the RINOs, so he will keep his “chair”.
Johnson looks so average American. But in today’s world real Americans look like Kid Rock and Aaron Lewis and Don Trump Jr. When he was elected i thought. This guys a Grifter.
And then what?
Best case: we get someone decent and we move forward.
Worst case: we throw sand in the gears, everyone screams bloody murder, we at least slow the insanity.
Seems kind of like a win win?
What’s your alternative?
Still stumping for “we got to give Johnson a chance, huh?”👀
🤔 🤔 😂😂😂😂😂
Then what? Anybody but that traitorous, deceitful RINO POS! And let the government shut down.
F’ THEM ALL! That’s what!
Instead of constantly complaining, how about you throw out your candidate. Or will you go after the Republicans who wanted McCarthy out for his lies. Because there is another prominent poster here who does the same complaining.
Who do you want and then let’s get behind them>
I do go after the Republicans all the time. They are called RINOs.
And nothing you say, I say, or anyone else says here has no vote on “who to get behind.” That decision is left to those RINOS in Congress unfortunately.
And the ‘complaining’ you talk about is exposure of what he and they are. It’s called the Uniparty against We the People on behalf of and to the interests of globalists and multinationals.
Trying to deflect from it doesn’t make it go away nor ‘mask’ it nor ‘influence’ away from the obvious.
But since you’re complaining about my opinion, let me pose these questions to you:
1. Why do support Johnson after his failed leadership?
2. Who would be your candidate to replace Johnson?
And that other ‘prominent’ poster is correct, just like I am. It’s called “calling it like we see it” – the Truth.
You are more than welcome to try to prove us wrong about Johnson with facts or try ‘influence’ others though. Good luck with that!
See how that works?
I say put in a freshman congress(wo)man . They still may have some patriotic blood flowing through their veins, they are still listening to their constituents at this point…Byron Donalds, Andy Ogles, Anna Paulina Luna…
Uh oh, Todd. You’ve gone and upset Grover Gill (BK), Scut Farkas (dutchman) won’t be far behind! LOL
^^^^^^ 🎯💥💥💥💥👍
Every single Repukelican who was not willing to shut down the government in order to return to pre Covid spending levels and shutting down the border should be voted out as soon as possible.
They ran on getting rid of Pelosi spending levels and now they are approving the Pelosi spending levels.
Lone Wattie: You had to remind me about Pelosi?
Every spending increase always becomes the new baseline. Any reduction is then branded a spending cut to “entitlements”.
Reminds me of “Newt” running on term limits.
Lone Wattie, Great name. Love that movie.
Endeavor to persevere.
There is NO opposition party, and there hasn’t been one for a long time. Kabuki theatre, nothing more.
~ Broken record
The UNIPARTY hard at work. They both represent the same corruption and deception, unfortunately name recognition continues getting them re-elected. Some of these thieves have been in a position to steal from us for 30 to 40 years, way to long and they need to go.
Same as it ever was 🙄
Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss. Hope we don’t get fooled again
They have intentionally gotten rid of their majority in the house. That makes vacating the chair dicey. Take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Aliens. Great movie.
What would one do different if the plan was to continue weakening the USA by spending it into the poor house?
Quid pro quo, a banal motive for some. Fundamental transformation, for others.
Vacate the chair AGAIN
These assclowns
Maybe Robin Hood all of congress of their riches will change it
President Trump is talking to Speaker Johnson and advertising it on MSM.
Laura Ingraham received the President’s phone call prior to her show airing tonight because she was interviewing Speaker Johnson.
Look, this is absurd all the way around; we get it here and quite frankly many have gotten it for more years than we care to count.
But, there might be a sliver of hope.
If President Trump has been openly talking with the Speaker of the House and pushing a MAGA agenda, and then calls up the television host/hostess to explain the situation and express his displeasure prior to questioning the Speaker of the House, well, that is more than just pushing the envelope.
That’s the Trumpian message of do this the right way Speaker Johnson or you’ll be going the way of Speaker McCarthy…
Don’t expect this contrived continuing resolution budgeting mess to go away overnight; it is going to take time and it is going to be very painful.
Regular Oeder in the House Committees to structure legislation and the appropriations is basic to the USA federal republic. Short of regular order is a flashing neon sign for “on the take” corruption.
A lack of regular order is a clear and concise message. So sad the House Speaker has self exposed as a craven piece of the corrupt machinery.
Johnson insane weak
Does anyone think if the GOP had 350 seats anything would be different? I do not but it would be interesting to hear the excuses. If Johnson is truly a Christian he would resign for lying.
No, it’s always the other branch or house they don’t have. Even when they have all three they **** us from behind. Every, ****, time.
This. This. THIS.
I don’t understand the collective amnesia of 2016. We didn’t only elect Trump. Congress was fully red. House, Senate, and by 2018 they had two appointments on SCOTUS.
To misquote a certain daughter of Satan, “what difference did it make?”
The weather made me do it!
Breitbart: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced a last-minute push from conservatives to attach border security measures to the CR, a process that likely would have delayed House passage of the bill until Friday and sent it back to the Senate, which, in all likelihood, would have not even brought the bill up for a vote.
“But with two to three inches of snow expected in the capitol on Friday, Johnson opted to advance the CR as passed by the Senate and send the House home for the weekend.”
How dare my colleagues needlessly suffer what those commoners go through every winter!
Mike Johnson Said Biden’s Presidency Is ‘God’s Will’
SHAME ON YOU- SOTH MR.JOHNSON !!!!!
Why is no one asking Speaker Johnson to release the J6 prisoners?
because tick tock run out the clock
Classic, Mass…..
There just aren’t any words sufficient to describe what these lying losers do.
They know that Trump will very likely be re-elected & they’re deliberately throwing the 2025 HoR to Hakim Jeffries as the biggest fu to him… and us.
“f the government is operating under any short-term CR come April 30, there will be a $10 billion cut to the military’s budget and a $41 billion cut to domestic programs.”
A $10 billion cut in the military’s $850 billion per year budget!!! This is utterly draconian. Nikki Halley will have a cow. Defense contractors will have to move into smaller mansions and have less servants.
I just hope that $10 billion cut won’t be taken out of what all the DOD is doing to push back the invasion at the southern border.
The DOD is pushing back the southern invasion? I must have missed that.
Don’t feel bad as America’s southern border missed it too.
However, as this planet has over 180 countries, I figure they must be doing something to help push back some invasion somewhere, from the south or from the east, or from some direction, just not the invasion of America.
I know! They have pushed back the invasion of America from the planet Mars. You don’t see any Martians in America, now do you?
Shut down already!
The Republicans won’t shut down because it’s an election year. They won’t do anything that can be used against them by the dems in a campaign ad and the dems are taking full advantage of this fact.
Thats why, if they do pass a budget (which I doubt), we won’t see any spending cuts or fiscal responsibility. It doesn’t matter who is Speaker.
Vacate the chair.
How about vacating the entire House?
Aside from looting the Treasury, what are they actually doing in the best interests of everyday Americans?
There are headlines with Johnson, Schumer and McConnell reaching agreement on Ukraine funding.
I wrote Johnson and told him we are broke, $34 Billion in debt and killing another 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers isn’t going to help anybody especially Ukraine and us!
$34
BillionTrillionFool us once; shame on you.
Fool us every time for the past twenty-four years….
None dare call it conspiracy.
Johnson needs to go. Wittman, VA CD 1, will not be re-elected.
Congress is not going to stop spending and the Fed is not going to stop quantitative easing (printing). Prepare your households. Inflation will be cranking up.
Can’t have a recession in an election year if a Democrat is in office.
Jimmy Carter agrees with this statement.
They’re like heroine addicts, and we’re in a suicide pact with them. I don’t see any way they can avert a Soviet Union like collapse. Certainly plenty of talk of coups going around.
Vultures love collapse, plenty of rotting carcass. Heroin addicts in an occasional moment of clarity experience remorse and guilt, let’s be fair.
Paging Matt Gaetz…
This whole CR thing started when The Blightbringer first entered office. Since his puppet masters are still pulling the White House strings, I don’t think much will change in the District of Corruption. And I don’t think that the House of Representatives even remembers what an annual budget is, never mind how to go about constructing one.
That institutional knowledge was intentionally torched.
Reconstitution will take literal decades, if ever since all of the wrong practices are now so deeply ingrained.
Anyone daring to challenge that status quo will draw resistance from all corners, ones who benefit in some form or fashion from those practices.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/02/apropos-of-everything-republican-speaker-johnson-promises-to-keep-advocating-for-border-security/
GOD fearing Christian can not be warmonger as he is-support both wars……
2024 and 2026 need to result in a total “drain the swamp” congress cleaning….
it is up to We The People as a whole to decide if we are to be serfs ruled by fools or if
we are going to be the masters we were born to be.
Don’t believe for a minute voting will bring about this change you seek.
“We The People as a whole” we can do it. will we? remains to be seen.
but if we are not in large enough numbers, then you would be correct.
But the swamp is going crazy because for maybe the first time ever
WE ARE TOGETHER… that is our strength they can not over come and they fear the current “MAGA Ride or Die”.
Useless political tool with a Bible. What a disappointment.
Isn’t abortion a State’s issue now?
Yes, and Johnson betrayed the prolife legislation in Louisiana, soon after entering federal office.
Same clowns who have been sitting there for decades and decades….
BUT….
How many really knew?
Progess!
These people are certifiably insane.
Snow Job Day comes before a Snow Day
I don’t know why anyone is surprised. Just think about what Mike Johnson said when he first became Speaker. Did he say he was going to put America first? Start working to close the border immediately? Maybe do something to address inflation? The debt? Rein in the Federal Reserve or the FBI? Nope. He said the first thing he was going to do was take care of Israel. That alone should have raised alarm and caused informed people to start wondering what the Mossad and the CIA might have on him.
We can’t vote our way out of this mess, at least not at the federal level. The most we can do at this point is start pressuring our state legislatures to use the Tenth Amendment by passing nullification laws.
See you in the gulag friend.
I’m not being sarcastic.
Sorry … but we DID get fooled again.
Meet our new boss, same as the old boss … even if he loves Jesus … it’s the same old boss
Wow! The BEST rendition of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” !!!
Intense! Keith Moon … world’s greatest rock drummer!
True dat
A lead guitar solo and simultaneous drum solo … pure madness
Love that Moon has his headphones TAPED to his head !!!! Musta hurt taking them off after the show !!
Taking the path of least resistance; sinking to the lowest common denominator; doing just enough to get by! Watching a country collapse!
“We are in an abusive relationship with our government.”
Those words echo in my head every time they do this stuff.
As well as…..“Our government HATES us….”
We have been captured. Fake GOP republicans. We have been duped.
Trudeau has given autonomy to the northern territories. You can expect china/Russia in there now making private agreements with northern leaders for access to resources that they should never have.
Next the foreign dictators will be setting up and leasing land for who knows what. Telecommunications? Small military bases? Who knows now!!!
China is in cuba. And probably making their way North now.
It’s slow. But the Marxists/communists have us almost cornered.
Sparkly Socks “Take our resources, they’re not eco friendly”.
We are so forked. With friends like the establishment GOP, who needs enemies?
Johnson works a lot cheaper Nancy Pelosi.
But she is more devout.
Not surprised at all, we work for them now. Spit!
We have to thank President Trump for this full unmasking, this is why they hate the MAGA movement. These people can no longer hide, we at least know the truth now and if we fall for it, it’s our fault.
Thank you Trump for at least giving us a freakin chance.
Yes, but don’t forget about our Sundance who’s spent years and countless hours showing anyone who wants to see and learn about the ugly inner workings of the swamp, and just how deep the rabbit hole is..
Followed SD for 7 years and what I’ve learned makes my head hurt.😖
My heart, too…
Okay, so we know they hate us and have moved us from citizens to slaves.
Now what?
RETRIBUTION & RECKONING thru our murder weapon – President Donald J “The Hammer” TRUMP!
I always knew in the end the entire world would depend on “The Mom in Tennis Shoes” Patty Murray to decide just where to appropriate billions of dollars to save the free world. Bothell’s greatest grifter stands resolutely behind Chuck U. Schumer. Maria Cantwell must be so envious.
The only thing that describes Mike is a fake Christian liar. How sad!
Always tell him that when he beg for $$$..I do
absolute cowardice from the methane producing GOP.
O.K., my frog 🐸 is cooked. Well done. What’s the next step😭😫
The next step is putting your big toe in the kettle to test the temperature.
So he marched right off the hill he swore he would die on.
Bye bye!
MJ be like: “My @ss is gone.” Time to put the pressure on Gaetz again.