Trump Slams Spending Bill as Speaker Johnson Reportedly Mulls a ‘Clean’ Bill
Gee, Speaker Johnson. Maybe you should have put forward a clean bill in the first place!
Chad Pergram of Fox News posted President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance’s disdain for the spending bill thrown together by the House Republicans.
The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.
Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.
Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.
Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.
Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.
THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!
Trump/Vance: A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance: The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be…
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 18, 2024
Politico reported that Speaker Mike Johnson’s office has been mulling a Plan B after the outrage against the monstrous continuing resolution (CR). This short-term bill extends government funding for a few months.
The news comes as Johnson defends the current CR and whines that he has no power to change it despite the GOP having a majority:
The Louisiana Republican is discussing dropping $100 billion in disaster aid plus other attachments and instead passing a “clean CR” — then dealing with the other issues in the new year, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the conversations. In addition to disaster aid, that would mean dropping $30 billion for farmers, and a one-year extension of the farm bill, among other items, at least for now.
Johnson has not made a final decision. But if he shifts strategies it would be a boon for his right flank, which has railed publicly against the current spending bill and revived a dormant threat to Johnson’s speakership. Many of those conservatives don’t typically support stopgap spending bills — most of the additions to the bill were designed to appease other Republicans, as well as Democrats.
You should have done this in the first place, Speaker Johnson. Also, I think the disaster aid bill should be given priority since FEMA has abandoned those in North Carolina who are still suffering from Hurricane Helene.
Politico also said that a few Republicans have started “privately grumbling that Musk — while clearly a successful businessman — doesn’t understand the ways of Washington, where spending bills must be bipartisan.”
No, they do not have to be bipartisan. Even if it passes the House, you will have Republican Senators defect and vote against it.
These Republicans also have to realize that the “ways of Washington” are why we the people are tired of politics and politicians. The “ways of Washington” are why we are in this position.
They won’t be voting today.
And the house is not coming back in for votes tonight. pic.twitter.com/fckzlclgzy
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 18, 2024
Republicans CANNOT allow millions of Americans devastated by the historic hurricane season, or our struggling farmers, go without the help they desperately need.
We will decide FY25 spending in March, when Trump is back in the WH and Republicans control the Senate and House. pic.twitter.com/f8OpQleOoJ
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) December 18, 2024
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“The United States shall make no expenditures of funds of any kind until a full audit of spending has been performed and a budget of only vital functions had been established”.
Sorry folks, we’re out of money.
What in gods name was this moron thinking? 🤔🙄
Johnson is a terrified toddler who has no business in the Speaker’s chair.
I wanted to like him. I tried to like him. I like him in personal terms, but he sucks royally as Speaker. IT appears that the only motivation he ever has is to avoid any sort of “government shutdown”, and therefore he gives Chuck Schumer and the Dems everything they want. That’s all he’s done since becoming Speaker.
But, as we come to the end of the Dems’ reign of terror in Washington it’s time for Johnson to realize that he is leading the House and he is the one with the power of the purse. He needs to get over his childish fear of the government being “shut down” and put through the hardest, most conservative bill he can.
If Schumer and the dems want to shut the government down over it, then GOOD! Shut it down. There’s only a month until Trump is in office and I want Traitor Joe and his junta to have as little power as possible for the end of their term. I prefer the federal government to shut down until Trump takes office. I would feel much better with a closed federal government. At least the dumping of southern wall parts will stop and lots of other things won’t be able to get through. Perhaps we can even get the heat and electricity in the White House turned off (that would be the best!).
Shut it down!!!! For America.
Nice one P! 🤛
IT appears that the only motivation he ever has is to avoid any sort of “government shutdown”
And that’s the one thing we really – in the mindset of a Founder – DON’T need to avoid.
Yet Trump endorsed him as Speaker of the House, Get real. Trump is part of the swamp. He always was.
Trump endorsed him and said he was the best man for the job.
Kickbacks.. to him
I’m torn between “Here we go again” and “5D chess” for a response. Under normal circumstances, the Dems block-vote against *any* CR unless it has *every* chunk of pork and lard they can shovel into it. Since there is no bill that can be crafted to get all of the Republicans voting for it (since dramatic posing and theatre is in their blood), the only thing that can get passed is an abomination the Dems love. The more Republicans in the House, the more drama-queens. On the grasping hand, rolling this kind of lard-stuffed monster out in public gives the Speaker leverage against the Dems for a clean CR to replace it, and I’ve heard a rumor that the first 9 pages could be snipped out and put in its own bill just like that.
We’ll see. Actually passing a clean CR in both houses could take as little as 4 hours in a pinch, if the drama queens can be dragged away from the microphones.
Frankly, I’d prefer no spending bill. “All you folks not working from home can continue not working from home. Only, now we won’t pay you to not work from home.”
Just think how fast deficit spending would go down if we stopped paying who were not working from home didn’t get paid.
That would fix…nothing. 40% pay raises for Congress, OTOH. Yeah. Let’s focus on the actual problems.
off topic but…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14207279/california-state-emergency-h5n1-bird-flu-covid-pandemic.html
California declares state of emergency as H5N1 bird flu threatens pandemic
“Governor Gavin Newsom said the move would free up funds and ‘streamline and expedite’ the state’s efforts to tackle the outbreak.”
Gavin wants a massive last minute fed grant to fuel his out of control clientelism. Yeah, he’s that cynical. Parkinson’s Law – officials want supplicants, not rivals.
His mercenary activists are only rented, and never stay bought.
It’s a start. Come Feb ’25 I wonder how many House Rs will be MAGA Rs and how many will be just Republicans?
Maybe Johnson is afraid that ‘President’ Biden will declare martial law if the Democrats and their GOP co-conspirators don’t get their stockings filled and Federal government shuts down for more than five seconds.
Martial law cannot exist in the USA unless the courts are unable to function. The moment a court opens its doors, martial law automatically becomes invalid in that district.
Follow regular order or shut it down and until th next Congress is seated and the next President is inaugurated. Any short term ‘CR’ should be done on a 90% basis of prior year spending prorated to the length of the ‘CR’.
Gonna get the usual overwrought speeches about ‘hurting the public’ for the d/prog amplified by the legacy media. Grandma gonna get ‘pushed off the cliff’ and so on.
Meanwhile the d/prog in the Senate trying to implement a giveaway to federal employees for SSA by changing the ’86 rules retroactively. Cost estimated at $200 billion but given prior track record on budget estimates…. Not to mention that’s adding to the annual outflow of a SSA program which will already hit a 25% shortfall in benefits in a decade.
I live in the heart of the corn belt, and work one on one with farmers everyday. They’re great people and they are tremendous producers. Not one of them is in urgent need, or any need, of federal assistance or programs at this time. They are doing very well. Of the hundreds of farmers I work with, 90% have net worths in excess of $10 million, and many, many with net worths in excess of $100 million.
I need to marry a farmer
I am so tired of those idiots constantly giving in and acting like the Communist won. The Communists just lost an election and lost with enough margin there was no way they could steal it. Trump has a mandate, God damn act like it
Maybe there’s some politicking going on. But it certainly looks like Johnson caved because of the blowback from all the people who just put Trump in office. I’m beginning to wonder if there’s not some secret club up there that pays off the Speaker of the House regardless of who they are.
It’s a CR of a CR, isn’t it? So, the new CR should be one page that says something like “This bill continues the previous CR at 90% funding in every area continued from a normal spending bill that is not past its normal expiration. When this bill expires, if there is not funding in place through normal procedures, all spending for Congress will cease until 30 days after a spending bill is passed for at least one agency not Congress using normal procedures.”
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