WTF is going on with this spending bill to keep the government open? Are MAGA Mike's days numbered? Ron Filipkowski has all the latest on this and more in tonight's recap:
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I seriously doubt if the media will mention this but there goes the $100 billion dollars that was supposed to help Red State hurricane victims. Expect the Trump administration to start pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into SpaceX for massive Musk Mars grift strategy. IPO soon after.
If MAGA calls for the speakership to be vacated, who is up next? Scalise and Jordan already had their chance, and Stefanik is moving on. Is it time for an outside choice? a true Trumper? Is it time for
Spending bill was just rejected by Republican influenced by Trump and Musk. Billionaire don't care about average Americans who will suffer from the till next year. No military pay no federal workers pay, possibly even Social security for seniors. Keep billionaires out of politics
All the republicans has no spine and are not for the American people. Red/ Blue come together to stop this nonsense. They just about kissing up to the traitors . Mike Jackson no backbone at all. Rich will become richer and the middle class will have to pay and suffer!!!!
It's absurd. Government shutdown? No FBI background checks on future cabinet members? Trump not signing that piece of paper that comes before his term begins? Elon an immigrant running the show? Who's going to be the real leader and the puppet?
That guy without the Dems he wouldn't have been Speaker of the House. His head is up in that orange face backside that he can't smell the fresh air, and be in touch with the real world.
It is nothing more than a power play for attention by Elon and Trump who don't really care if it passes or not and have NO IDEA what is in bill. Ask them...they have no idea.
My greatest fear at this point is MAGA Mike already knows his days are numbered and Musk will be the next speaker of the House, he bought the presidency Trump will get him the speakership.
Mikey has abdicated all responsibility as the speaker of the House to President-elect Musk and not another republican in Congress has a spine or the willingness to stand up to Musk or trump. Holding office is more important to them than representing their constituents. Sad.
Goodbye Johnson 🙋
“also see this costing Johnson his Speakership if the current bill passes. I don’t see how he can possibly survive. He has zero political skills. None. He is literally the opposite of Pelosi when it comes to strategy. She is brilliant, he is a dunce.”
I’m really hung up on the pay raise. For what? What have they done in the last two years that warrants a raise? FFS!
And, this is exactly how the next four years are going to be. A whole lot of bluster and nothing getting done. We get screwed in the process.
The con presietrump campaigned on government spending cuts but yet he wants to raise the debt ceiling so he can spend more when he is. Plus traitor Trump is not helping the people affected by the disasters like he claimed. He is a trash and his maggots bought into his empty promises and gonna bemad
Trump drama that will hurt ME. I live on $10k a year... just got $26 mo SS raise and $55 mo rent raise. I made Church windows fir a living. Artists don't have pensions or 401k. If my SS stops what do I do??? Will the detention camps be used for homeless?
Tiny Johnson has yet to bring a republican budget forward he's just sucking along on the Democrats continuing resolution 2 years is this what America voted for
Trump instructed Johnson to kill bi-partisan border bill-did, so Trump can use immigration in campaign. Now Trump instructed him to kill gov't funding bill w/o debt ceiling increase-did. What happens when play games w/elections. Get dictator, GOP & oligarchs serving own interests & heads on strings
We need to fight for a new election anyway.. need to know for sure a KNOWN cheater didn't cheat.
Need to KNOW who really voted for who, w/o interference, fair & safe guaranteed by the constitution, count the votes missing/burned/purged, trust our elections, and either grieve or celebrate #revote
If PayPal knows for sure who I am, or shuts me down, our overburdened government could put us all online. Just like that. As if they weren't already tuned in to who we are and what we are doing. It aggravates me that they flaunt the evil now.
I agree.
I just don't know how that would happen.
I do know that Joe Biden is probably the most experienced and informed politician America has ever seen.
We’re going to have to do this minute by minute. Welcome to chaos every day, every minute. These f*ckers only know how to steal. Man I already miss Dems in control, Biden-Harris stability.
So if the MAGAT people are against it them is it good for the left? So hard to tell anymore. And the sheer amount of pages is nothing new. Just seems like more fuel to muddy the water. I don't think anyone ever really reads it. And a raise for themselves too. How nice.
For the Republicans to play games with this CR bill is damaging not only to our economy,Veterans benefits, and also the government employees paychecks.
I bet that Congress continues to get paid if there is shutdown!
The 85-90% of the country doesn’t have money put back in case of an emergency
We need to call him and tell him to do his job. Elon Musk is a civilian, not an elected official, and Trump does not want to start his presidency having pissed of half the country.
If Trump costs millions of people work, he will regret it. Americans are already fed up with the elite.
The “GOP Spending Bill” derailed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump… I hope isn’t an attempt to INSTALL his “cabinet picks” through a recess process by shutting down the Government…
President Biden should declare an emergency… INVESTIGATE THE ELECTION! If it was “rigged,”
STOP THE TRANSITION!
This is the beginning of GOP infighting. Three fractions: conservative nationalists, Oligarchs, and the old guard libertarians. Money usually wins until literally everyone else figures out how to unite enough to fight back while it’s feasible.
The proposed budget includes a $70,000/year pay raise for themselves... but tell me again how my $18,000/year Social Security is bankrupting the country.
I’m glad here in Canada the whole concept of a government shut down just doesn’t exist. If a spending bill fails, parliament dissolves and we immediately go to election. Government continues to run on certificates issued by the Governor General.
Another plus to our system is there is no such thing as a lame duck session. Once an election is called, parliament is dissolved and does not resume until the election is done and new people sworn in.
I am a retired Federal employee. The threat of a shut down was(and still is) a horrifying thing that you can’t control and that you didn’t cause. It is so easy for these billionaires to just dismiss the paychecks (even if just temporarily) for these employees, some of whom live paycheck 2 paycheck
Giving themselves a raise. Nice. Over $200k for a part time job that many are not even competent at. Meanwhile proposing to cut out healthcare and raise prices for the rest of us.
Well guess what? It happened and the Republicans are in deep doo-doo. Millions will now be hurt by this. Trump and Musk succeeded in their threats, just because they wanted to hurt the Democrats. They have until Saturday or it's game over. The shut down will on the MAGA, not the Dems.
They will shut down the government and call it the "Biden Shutdown". The rightwing media will adopt that name and blame the left. The mainstream media won't contest it.
Trump will claim to be the hero when his budget passes after a lot of real harm done.
Is this all an elaborate trick to force Johnson out and replace him with one of the DooGee brothers? They don’t need to be an actual elected representative apparently
"Johnson realized that there was simply no way he was ever going to get Republican unanimity on any spending package and he needed Democratic support. But putting together a CR that makes Democrats happy puts his Speakership very much at risk"
Good take, but the congressional pay raise is 3.8%, not 40%. The 40% number is misinformation spread by musk himself. Needs correction. Don’t amplify his misinformation please.
Does everyone have their popcorn ready? I can't wait for them to start being at each other's throats. How many potential speaker candidates are we gonna cycle through this time? Well it's just about time that everyone who fucked around gets to find out!
Donald Trump is a threat to America. I wonder how the idiots that voted for these people feel, if they are affected by this shutdown. This Johnson guy is useless, smh!
Ramaswami Posted he read the fifteenth hundred page budget report that failed . He said it was full of special interest lobby programs including a stadium for washington DC. Pay raises for the legislators enhanced healthcare to include mental health expansion for them and several other dumb stuff.
I don't know what the real reason was. I was just relaying what he said. I'm sure it was packed with junk we would not vote for. I'm sure Trump and VP Musk are trying to block everything before trump takes office.
Trump and Elon are starting the takeover and not one damn DEM is doing anything about it. Elon has already talked Trump into shutting down the government. TRUMP ISN'T THE PRESIDENT YET!!!!
What do you want the Dems to do? This is what the people voted for. A big shit show. Billionaires getting richer off the back of every American. Congratulations Maga you really f.. the country. Hope you’re happy!
I heard they gave themselves a nice fat raise in this bill they are trying to pass. From $174,000 to $260,000. What the serious hell. And they say the government is spending too much. These jokers don’t work for the pay they get now. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Elon, who has no idea of the plight of the working class he will cause unimaginable financial strain to, thinks he can demand republicans turn this down simply because he says so. And they all follow because he can bully them with financial opposition when they run for reelection. PATHETIC WEIRDOS
The Great Province of America is stunned as the Speaker was humiliated, or was sidelined by coPresident Musk. His behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of America. He will not be missed!!! 11th Province.
What is it with these wack jobs that cant do a single fkg thing unless dump tells them to!!
Cant a damned pubtard think for themselves? A SINGLE ONE!! Its so entirely depraved that the gQp cant make a single bill decision without kissing the ring! Its disgusting! Do your damb jobs! 🤦♀️Pathetic! 😡
👉👉👉As a CANADIAN, from here on in, I will refer to Trump as VICE PRESIDENT TRUMP
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"Fox programming today was 50% Republicans complaining about Mike Johnson and 50% on mystery drones." 🤣🤣 Republican party are beggers and get easily bamboozled!!!!
So will Barron Trump be the next Speaker? (And please don’t tell me he doesn’t meet the qualifications because neither does his dad for the presidency.)
DO NOT CERTIFY THIS ELECTION TILL ITS ESTABLISHED WHO TF IS THE ACTUAL PRESIDENT AND RUNNIN THIS COUNTRY. Elon is NOT an elected official. No one voted for him. His name wasn't on any ballot. Watching Sen.Goldman on Lawrence just now talking abt how Elon killed the budget deal
President Elon Musk made dozens of post today demanding literally blackmailing Congress to not pass the bill later. The shadow President Trump came on board… president Elon talks to president Putin, they both have a lot of dirt on Trump!
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Let’s vote:
1. Gay
2. Sex with a minor
3. Paid a sex worker
4. Participated in cocaine fuelled orgie
Voting is open now.
A 40% PAY RAISE FOR THEMSELVES.
In business this would never fly.
Do you want to cut back on the initial proposal?
Let’s start by cutting the 40% PAY RAISE FOR THEMSELVES!
Vivek Ramaswamy?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/business/elon-musk-federal-reserve/index.html
“also see this costing Johnson his Speakership if the current bill passes. I don’t see how he can possibly survive. He has zero political skills. None. He is literally the opposite of Pelosi when it comes to strategy. She is brilliant, he is a dunce.”
:) Hehe
And, this is exactly how the next four years are going to be. A whole lot of bluster and nothing getting done. We get screwed in the process.
Trump instructed Johnson to kill bi-partisan border bill-did, so Trump can use immigration in campaign. Now Trump instructed him to kill gov't funding bill w/o debt ceiling increase-did. What happens when play games w/elections. Get dictator, GOP & oligarchs serving own interests & heads on strings
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/constitutional-amendments-amendment-20-date-changes-presidency-congress-and-succession
Need to KNOW who really voted for who, w/o interference, fair & safe guaranteed by the constitution, count the votes missing/burned/purged, trust our elections, and either grieve or celebrate #revote
I just don't know how that would happen.
I do know that Joe Biden is probably the most experienced and informed politician America has ever seen.
Maybe there is a reason for the silence.
We can hope
https://www.aol.com/party-city-shutters-nearly-40-193700878.html
Few people want to Party in the face of another 4 years of Trump stealing from the poor to give to himself and the Oligarchs.
#MuskOwnsTrump
#PresidentMusk
#oligarchy
He wants this
#PresidentMusk
I bet that Congress continues to get paid if there is shutdown!
The 85-90% of the country doesn’t have money put back in case of an emergency
If Trump costs millions of people work, he will regret it. Americans are already fed up with the elite.
President Biden should declare an emergency… INVESTIGATE THE ELECTION! If it was “rigged,”
STOP THE TRANSITION!
Trump will claim to be the hero when his budget passes after a lot of real harm done.
https://www.aol.com/party-city-shutters-nearly-40-193700878.html
Few people want to Party in the face of another 4 years of Trump stealing from the poor to give to himself and the Oligarchs.
2.5%
Jeffries was on the right track. Better be walking that talk.
Cant a damned pubtard think for themselves? A SINGLE ONE!! Its so entirely depraved that the gQp cant make a single bill decision without kissing the ring! Its disgusting! Do your damb jobs! 🤦♀️Pathetic! 😡
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https://www.businessinsider.com/mtg-low-salary-job-miserable-2023-2
The worst do nothing Congress in US history has actually gotten worse!
We need to reduce their pay & per diem to a dollar a day until they do what voters elected them to do, their jobs!
Also cancel all office furnishing allowances, it doesn't take 40Gs to furnish an office