341-82: 132 Republicans and all Democrats present vote for a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government until December 20. 82 Republicans reject the CR.
The Senate is expected to pass the measure tonight. pic.twitter.com/Gy58KZbL3W
— The Recount (@therecount) September 25, 2024
Breaking news: The Senate passed legislation Wednesday in a broad bipartisan vote to extend federal funding into December, staving off a looming government shutdown. https://t.co/NhcLYhZITl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 25, 2024
Future Speaker Bae has saved us from Extreme MAGA Republicans AGAIN!
But this is not sustainable…
Make Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker of the House
Let him turn Future President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda into legislation #KamalaInvestsInUS pic.twitter.com/gx04x0KsAt
— Qondi (@QondiNtini) September 25, 2024
Now that we've avoided a senseless shutdown, I hope House Republicans have learned they don't need to let Trump call the shots and keep us from working together. We need to talk to each other to pass serious full-year funding bills that address our nation's urgent challenges. pic.twitter.com/IoES8Dik6h
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) September 25, 2024
Johnson may or may not be the worst recent Speaker because of McCarthy as competition
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) September 25, 2024
War for Ukraine Day 945: President Zelenskyy Addresses the UN General Assembly & G7+Ukraine Meeting
MisterForkbeard
Astounding how much the Republicans have just given up on actually doing their jobs. Dems always need to step in and actually do the work.
ETA: FRIST!
Nix Besser
Who gives a shit whether Johnson is even weaker than Qevin? The House has settled into the reality that nothing gets done without Dems’ say-so. Even the maniacs seem to see it.
ETA: Damn! I was just about to FRIST! this worthless comment.
Viva BrisVegas
Does this violate the Republican
pedophileHastert Rule?Old School
SpaceUnit
Also, the godawful Save Act was stripped from the resolution.
Baud
@SpaceUnit:
?
That was a forgone conclusion.
geg6
@Old School:
Jesus Christ, what the hell has happened to the Secret Service? It seems to be a total shitshow.
Eolirin
There does not seem to have been an extension to the authorization to spend the military funding to Ukraine though. So unless the White House can figure out a work around, about 6 billion dollars worth of aid will be allowed to lapse in about four days. And there’s nothing in the CR for additional funding going forward, I don’t think.
The House is out of session for a while now too. So where this leaves Ukraine is to be seen.
SpaceUnit
@Baud:
Just pointing out that the Republicans are flailing.
Mousebumples
I have such a wish list if we can give President Harris a legislative majority.
Passing a law that gets rid of the debt ceiling and funds the government in accordance with passed legislation is on the list.
Why do we let the GOP do this? Sigh.
Gin & Tonic
@geg6: Remember a few years back when they went to Colombia (?) and picked up a bunch of hookers?
WaterGirl
@geg6: Good thing they just funded the Secret Service with millions more dollars.
*I know, it’s not related, but the Secret Service is appalling.
A secret service guy sexually assaulting an aide to the Vice President. Scream or throw up? Hard to choose.
The entire leadership of the Secret Service needs to resign.
WaterGirl
@Eolirin: President Biden should just do something extraordinary to not let that aid lapse – since he has immunity for any official act.
Let’s test the limits of their bullshit SC ruling.
Besides, what are they gonna do if the aid is already in the hands of Ukraine?
Mousebumples
I hear Mayor Adams in NYC is the first sitting NYC mayor to be indicted. FTFNYT has it
ETA – sealed indictment from what I’m reading in headlines, but I’m not clicking thru.
Chet Murthy
@WaterGirl: Just to make us all feel worse: I’m sure that this isn’t the worst. I mean, these are the ones -vetted- so they can protect Biden&Harris. Imagine the ones on TCFG’s detail. Just …. imagine.
HumboldtBlue
@Eolirin:
US set to announce nearly $6B in Ukraine aid
Gin & Tonic
@Eolirin: It leaves it to die.
WaterGirl
@Chet Murthy: I’m going with raping women and children and killing puppies as the first two that come to mind. It’s possible that I’m giving them too much credit.
Another Scott
@Eolirin: Reuters says that the Biden admin has ways to get the money spent for Ukraine. We’ll see the details tomorrow, apparently.
Biden and his people know how this stuff works. They were not surprised by the CR antics and knew the deadlines in the Ukraine aid legislation.
They’ve got this.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Maybe not? See comment #16. Seems like a good sign, no?
edit: I can’t blame you for being bitter, though.
Mousebumples
@Mousebumples:
TBone
@Gin & Tonic: I do.
Jackie
@Eolirin:
I’m really curious how the lame duck House will deal with Ukraine funding in Dec IF a lot of GQPers lost their elections AND their majority. AND TCFG lost. Will they double down in defiance and petulant anger? Or just don’t GAF and go out with a whimper?
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl: As was said of the Reavers in Firefly: “they’ll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we’re very, very lucky, they’ll do it in that order.”
Baud
Via reddit, proud to be a Democrat
Chet Murthy
@WaterGirl: Remember when an SS detail went to Colombia in 2012 (for Obama) and ….. well, 20 prostitutes and a big-ass scandal later ….. And that was under Obama. Under TCFG remember how the detail protecting Jarvanka (who couldn’t use a toilet at Jarvanka’s house b/c reasons, and were given access to one at the Obamas’ house, b/c they’re decent and kind people) left an upper-decker at the Obamas’ house ?
MisterForkbeard
@Nix Besser: He who FRISTs first, FRISTs best. Or so I’m told.
@Mousebumples: Ooof. Not surprising at all (this guy was pretty awful), but… ooof. Especially for a former police officer, that’s gotta sting.
dmsilev
Of note, Trump apparently was lobbying GOP members as late as this morning to include an election “security” (read “suppression”) bill of some sort, any sort, in the CR. Even a fig leaf that he could demagogue over. He got nothing, and well over half of the GOP caucus voted for “he got nothing”. Given how vindictive and favor-oriented he is, that’s not exactly a vote of confidence in him from what should be his strongest supporters….
Anoniminous
Helene is expected to be a Cat 4 at landfall. Given how warm the Gulf is Cat 5 cannot be ruled out. Just for shits-n-giggles a 20 foot storm surge is also predicted simultaneously at the same time along with the standard flooding, wind damage, and tornadoes.
TBone
@Mousebumples: unregistered foreign agent is my guess.
HumboldtBlue
WaterGirl
@Sister Golden Bear: I loved Firefly, but I didn’t recall that line. I will now try to forget it! :-)
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: I’ll believe it when I see it.
WaterGirl
@Chet Murthy:
I remember all of that except for this:
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: I hope you see it.
Anoniminous
@Gin & Tonic:
And then
stiffedlow balleddidn’t pay the full service charge.Sister Golden Bear
@MisterForkbeard: Given Republicans don’t want the government to do anything, not doing their jobs is their job.
Eolirin
@Mousebumples: This wasn’t the debt ceiling. This is the Republicans not being able to pass a budget on time. September is the end of the fiscal year. The budget for 2025 was due. They punted on it.
Chet Murthy
@WaterGirl: Yyyyyep.
WaterGirl
@Chet Murthy: I don’t know what that means.
Ken
@SpaceUnit: So to summarize, Trump demanded the SAVE act with no continuing resolution, and the opposite happened. The kind of leadership we’ve all come to expect from him.
Mousebumples
@Eolirin: ugh, I can’t keep it straight. Thanks
P. S. Still want the debt ceiling gone.
Parfigliano
@geg6: The SS is Chock full of MAGA shitheads
wjca
Every thing Trump touches dies. ‘Nuff said
Princess
@Ken: Have the Republicans ever defied Trump so openly and thoroughly before this?
wjca
No need to imagine. Only ask what accusations TCFG’s campaign has made that have not yet been revealed to have been perpetrated by them.
Carlo Graziani
@Princess: It’s a case of faute de mieux. Government shutdowns are perpetual Republican own-goals—everytime their conservative-reptilian rear brains cause them to trigger one, they lose popularity and votes. The very idea of triggering a shutdown with 6 weeks to go before the entire caucus up fo re-election is enough to overload the Congressional laundry with beshitted underwear.
Trump may be God, but his demands constitute a threat to job security for the majority of Republican House members. They voted for survival. They can kiss and make up with their deity in December.
Chet Murthy
@WaterGirl: Ah, sorry, it means when you …. uh …. defecate in the tank of a toilet.
SpaceUnit
@Ken:
And I’m starting to love it.
Another Scott
@Eolirin:
Also too, horse’s mouth – Whitehouse.gov:
Slava Ukraini!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Jackie
Per the NYT, NC’s Lt Gov Robinson’s top staff in his office are planning to step down, ie quit.
Don’t subscribe, so no link, just posting the headline.
Kayla Rudbek
@geg6: I’ve been told by other federal law enforcement that the Secret Service tends to hire a lot of ex-football players who they think can take a bullet. So toxic masculinity and/or CTE?
Jay
@Jackie:
https://www.wbtv.com/2024/09/25/top-staffers-resign-north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinsons-office-amid-scandal/
Scout211
@Jackie: I saw that. Here is a local news story:
ETA: and Jay beat me to it.
Jackie
@Jay: Thanks, Jay😊
Robinson is truly on an island alone!
Haven’t seen any reports that his wife and family are standing by their man in support, either.
Jackie
@Scout211: Thank you, too, Scout!
Geminid
@TBone: I think Eric Adams will be indicted for taking bribes from the Turkish interests. They wanted to fast-track permitting for Turkiye House, their new shiny new diplomatic building over near the U.N.
At least, that’s what the rumors have been. There were multiple permits involved, so several of Adams’ agency heads were also in on it. But I gotta think Adams and the rest didn’t take money for just one building.
way2blue
Sigh. House Republicans kicked the budget fight down the road because they figured out if they shut down the government now if might affect their reelection prospects. They will tee up another poison pill in late December—just before the new House is swore in. (Hopefully run by Democrats.)
Geminid
@way2blue: House Republicans can try to tee up a poison pill in the Lame Duck session; I don’t think they’ll be successful though.
But the dynamics of the uocoming Lame Duck session have yet to be determined. If Trump loses, Johnson won’t have very much leverage at all.
Carlo Graziani
@Geminid: I agree. The “Trump loses” future (the most likely one, IMO) features a radical perspective shift in the GOP, wherein the near-certainty of Trump’s eventual penal servitude, and the two-year respite until the next election cycle, lances the boil of Trump’s control over the party and authorizes a period of more normal (at least, less psychopathological) corporate GOP decisionmaking.
It’s not that they like him—nearly every Republican officeholder loathes him and wishes him dead. But if he loses, then they can believe that they don’t need him anymore. For most of them, “he loses, I survive” is actually the best-case scenario.
Misterpuff
ETTD, even Secret Service.
Geminid
@Carlo Graziani: I suspect a lot of Congressional Republicans hope Trump loses. I’m pretty sure McConnell does, and I bet Trump knows it too.
Jay
@Carlo Graziani:
I think that for the next few election cycles you are going to see a ReThug party with 50% more nuts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/clay-higgins-rips-haitian-immigrants-rcna172738