Red Mosquito

Bi_3 wrote:I'm a big Sinema stan, but she's drifted so far away from self-awareness it's over for her.

B wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:I'm a big Sinema stan, but she's drifted so far away from self-awareness it's over for her.

Bi_3 wrote:Spoiler in the thread title

blueviper wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Spoiler in the thread title

debunked in 2014

The Argonaut wrote:I hoped you've learned a lesson today, Bi_3

blueviper wrote:That's cool how he got his hair to match the podium.

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy are closing in on a deal that would raise the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling for two years while capping spending on most items, a U.S. official told Reuters.

The deal, which is not final, would increase funding for discretionary spending on military and veterans while essentially holding non-defense discretionary spending at current year levels, the official said, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about internal discussions.

For the second time this week, House Republicans on Thursday failed to start debate on a key military funding bill after five conservative rebels blocked the measure over demands for additional spending cuts.

The defeat marked yet another public embarrassment for Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans as Washington barrels toward a government shutdown.

The vote was 212-216. The Republicans who voted no were Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia; Dan Bishop of North Carolina; Matt Rosendale of Montana; and Andy Biggs and Eli Crane, both of Arizona. Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., later switched his vote to no, a procedural move that will allow him to bring the bill up again.

Thursday's vote came after House Republicans had reported significant progress following a more than two-hour "family meeting" in the basement of the Capitol on Wednesday evening. McCarthy and others had hoped that a successful vote on the military bill would hand Republicans some momentum to pass a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown slated for Oct. 1.

After hours of discussion in that meeting, McCarthy had pitched a new strategy for House Republicans in the funding fight.

Caving to demands of the hard-right rebels, the speaker agreed to move a one-month, short-term government funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, with a topline funding level of $1.471 trillion — much lower than the Senate’s CR, according to lawmakers leaving the meeting. House Republicans will need to pass something that can also get through the Democratic-controlled Senate and earn President Joe Biden's signature before midnight on Sept. 30 to avoid a shutdown.

Some Republicans doubted McCarthy's new approach would work. Vocal McCarthy foe, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told his colleagues in Wednesday's meeting that there were seven GOP no votes for any CR, enough to tank it, though conservative Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., and others pushed back on Gaetz's math.

"I am not voting for a CR. I am not voting for a CR," Gaetz told reporters.