Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival.
Senators, having apparently lost faith in McCarthy’s ability to stave off a shutdown, negotiated a bill late Tuesday night that funds the government until Nov. 17 and includes $12 billion in aid and disaster relief for Ukraine. It’s expected to be voted on by the end of the week before being sent over to the House, and is intended to buy lawmakers more time to hash out a longer-term deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.
But, according to Punchbowl News, McCarthy said in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t take up a bill that includes Ukraine funding but no border security measures. “I don’t see the support in the House,” he reportedly said.
Aid for Ukraine has been one of several sticking points for ultraconservative hardliners in the House who have repeatedly sabotaged McCarthy’s efforts to get spending bills passed.
“Government shutdowns” are, among other things, wage theft from government employees.
In the Gingrich shutdowns of the 1990s, even active-duty military members’ pay was delayed without compensation for up to three weeks. Yes, that’s right: the Republicans literally stole paychecks from our soldiers and sailors just to stick it to Bill Clinton. (And maybe to give a little handout to their buddies in the payday loan business.)
More recent shutdowns have spared active-duty DoD, but still perpetrated wage theft against members of the Coast Guard and other defense-critical services. That was the case in the 2018-2019 shutdown, for example.
You can’t convince me you care about border security if you don’t fucking pay the Coast Guard.
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I’m sorry, but I have zero sympathy for military service members.
The GOP has repeatedly spat in their face and they continue to vote for them in overwhelming fassion, because “macho” or some bullshit.
Other federal workers I do feel bad for.
Fuck the GOP.
Because when Republicans are in power, military make more. Ask any active military member, and they’ll tell you they always make more money when a Republican President is in power.
This stupid fuck. All he has to do is negotiate with the Democrats. His speakership is over regardless. He must know that. The only point in what he’s doing now is cruelty. People will starve and he’s fine with it. He wants it.
All he has to do is negotiate with the Democrats.
He did. The Budget was negotiated with President Biden back in June / July. What’s happened is that he can’t get the Freedom Caucus to vote for what he negotiated. It’s ridiculous.
He doesn’t need their votes. He needs the Democrats and a handful of Republicans.
True, except the Freedom Caucus is threatening to hold a vote to remove him as Speaker if he dares do anything they don’t like.
McCarthy wants to keep his power position (even though, as it’s currently set up, he doesn’t really have much power) more than he wants to help this country. If helping the country would result in some minor harm to the level of power he has, he’ll let America burn.
So make part of the negotiations with the Democrats to support him when they try to remove him as speaker. It’s simple.
There absolutely would be support from Democrats and moderate Republicans. But he refuses to work with Democrats.
Remember: him and (especially) the far-right goons want a shutdown. They know Republicans will rightly be blamed in the short-term. But they’re willing to accept that, and even worse: they’re willing to damage the entire country and weaken our National Security to hurt the economy while Biden is president. That’s all this is! Don’t let anyone ever forget…
You sound just like Reddit, where EVERYTHING and ANYTHING was the Republican’s fault. Republicans want funds to go towards a border crisis that Democrats want to ignore. Democrats want to send BILLIONS to Ukraine, but literally turn a blind eye to what’s happening in our own country. Ever since Biden took over, the Democrats have chosen to ignore what’s been going on with our immigration issues, literally, they don’t want to talk about it or do anything because they don’t want to give even the slightest indication that Trump and Republicans have been right all along about having border issues. If we can send billions to another country, we sure as hell can send money to help with our borders.
Living on the border a stones throw from Mexico myself… what border crisis? Care to articulate and provide some citations to back it up?
Dude, Google is your friend…I’m in San Diego…if you don’t think this is a big deal to us, you’re kidding yourself…unless you live here, you have no idea how crazy this is…
https://www.kusi.com/mexico-agrees-to-begin-deporting-migrants-as-crisis-worsens-along-the-border/
I’m gonna go ahead and predict that by this time next week, he’s going to not be Speaker of the House anymore. Also, automatic ejection and disqualification from the speakership in the future should be an automatic mechanism that gets triggered when the house is unwilling to fund the government.
I’m in the minority here (as always) but Republicans are asking for more money to go towards our borders, while supporting the money going to Ukraine. Democrats do NOT want anything going to the borders, and are okay with everything going to Ukraine. It doesn’t sound like the Republicans are asking for too much…it sounds like Democrats just don’t want money for border security, because they simply refuse to believe there’s any issues.
