After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
A short-term funding measure to keep government offices fully functioning will dominate the September agenda, along with emergency funding for Ukraine, federal disaster funds and the Republican-driven probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
Time is running short for Congress to act. The House is scheduled to meet for just 11 days before the government’s fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, leaving little room to maneuver. And the deal-making will play out as two top Republicans, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, deal with health issues.
Impeachment for what?
“We’ll figure that out afterwards”
Practically everything the GOP does these days is just retaliation. They wanted to impact Biden before he was in office ffs.
They’re going to try to do to Biden that they did to Clinton. Investigate until anything puts him in court, whether it’s true or not.
Wouldn’t it be great if they could stop playing chicken with people’s lives…
They treat it like a game because it’s not them that suffer at the end, it’s the gov employees at the bottom living paycheck to paycheck who get screwed over when their check doesn’t come in because of a House dick measuring contest.
But Hunter Biden’s buttery socialist laptop agenda?
Need to figure out some malicious compliance during these annual periods to wake up the Republicans. Maybe a password leak because IT is down? :)
I wish I only had to work 11 days this month.
And calling it work is being very generous
Impeachment? Biden?
Could they be any more butthurt? They have nothing on him, we know this- they know this- but anything to waste time and money from the “conserving” party, right?
What a fucking joke they are.
Reminder: Trump didn’t get removed because the GOP literally banned the use of evidence at the hearing for his removal.
I remember when the GOP claimed to be the party of “fiscal responsibility”. Now they’re going to drive the country’s credit rating into the ground over spite.
They going to impeach Hunter Biden?
Republicans, staring down four Trump trials upcoming, have absolutely nothing else, the government will be shut down, it’s 100% unavoidable, all stories leading to “will it be/won’t it be” are advertising bait, the government will be shut down by Republican intransigence, guaranteed.
There will be a game of Chicken
McCarthy will play the title role
Careful, he’s really good at just standing there and staring awkwardly. He’s been practicing a lot recently in the middle of his speeches.
Such fucking bullshit the amount of time allotted to fuck off and not do their jobs, shit even without that most of em don’t show up when they feel like it
Not too mention the money they’re blowing on this bullshit
Life in America is like a drunk game of Jenga.
Life in America is like a drunk game of Jenga.
- Fitch Ratings, August 1st, 2023
The GOP is completely unserious. It’s too bad they have too much power in relation to their numbers. I wish they did not gain the House, esp given the fascist-loving goons they have in there…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
The president and congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, are focused on passage of a months-long funding measure, known as a continuing resolution, to keep government offices running while lawmakers iron out a budget.
It’s a step Congress routinely takes to avoid stoppages, but McCarthy faces resistance from within his own Republican ranks, including from some hardline conservatives who openly embrace the idea of a government shutdown.
For example, House Republicans added provisions blocking abortion coverage, transgender care and diversity initiatives to a July defense package, turning what has traditionally been a bipartisan effort into a sharply contested bill.
The inquiries have not produced evidence that President Biden took official action on behalf of his son or business partners, but McCarthy has called impeachment a “natural step forward” for the investigations.
Schumer said the Senate would work on legislation to lower the costs of drugs, address rail safety and provide disaster relief after floods in Vermont, fires in Hawaii and a hurricane in Florida.
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I’m 100% on board with a compromise of an impeachment inquiry for a passed law funding the government. I don’t think Biden did anything impeachable, but I think voters are smart enough to parse that. They didn’t vote against Democrats in the Clinton midterm.
If Biden didn’t do anything wrong, and he didn’t, then he shouldn’t be impeached, you’re just enabling our abusers and letting them get away with subverting democracy with their bullshit political theater attempts, and wasting our tax money on it.
This is just more Benghazi level bullshit from the Republicans.
If the alternative is a government shutdown, I don’t care about bullshit political theater. Newsflash, there will be bullshit political theater regardless.
I’m with you on this. If the cost of avoiding a shutdown were just an inquiry I’d take it; I’m worried we’ll give away something more valuable. They’re so inept I think the most likely outcome of an inquiry is that they embarrass themselves anyway.
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It’s not surrender to make a compromise. It’s politics, deals have to get made. In this case it isn’t even really the Democrats giving anything up since the Republicans have the power to open the impeachment inquiry without even voting on it, Pelosi did that for Trump.
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