The House MAGAs are at it again. They love legislative masturbation - passing bills they love that have no chance of ever becoming law. The bills they pass will never survive the Dem-led Senate which makes their effort totally wasted.
At the rate they are going with funding bills there is another almost guaranteed government shut-down in our future. Speaker Johnson is a waste and far too radical to be effective,
House Republican leaders sought to avoid another messy, drawn-out battle over federal funding this year by rolling out an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 individual appropriations bills before the annual August recess.
That effort has been all but derailed; rank-and-file Republicans are frustrated that GOP rebels are pushing for politically unpopular votes on measures that would likely not be in the final bills after compromising with the Democratic-held Senate. Fiscal conservatives and GOP rebels, however, accused the former of being unwilling to utilize their House majority.
Now some GOP lawmakers are accusing the latter of "political masturbation" while the rebels blast the "terrible process" that lawmakers have followed for years.
At the rate they are going with funding bills there is another almost guaranteed government shut-down in our future. Speaker Johnson is a waste and far too radical to be effective,
'Everyone’s mad': Fight to avoid government shutdown shatters House GOP peace
The fight to avoid a government shutdown is again bringing out the fault lines within the House GOP’s razor-thin majority.House Republican leaders sought to avoid another messy, drawn-out battle over federal funding this year by rolling out an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 individual appropriations bills before the annual August recess.
That effort has been all but derailed; rank-and-file Republicans are frustrated that GOP rebels are pushing for politically unpopular votes on measures that would likely not be in the final bills after compromising with the Democratic-held Senate. Fiscal conservatives and GOP rebels, however, accused the former of being unwilling to utilize their House majority.
Now some GOP lawmakers are accusing the latter of "political masturbation" while the rebels blast the "terrible process" that lawmakers have followed for years.
