Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of going “back on his word” by abandoning the funding levels he agreed to when he and President Biden struck a deal to raise the debt limit.
“Remember, bipartisan majorities agreed to funding levels back in June. The leaders of the House, the Senate, the White House, we all shook hands on this deal, but now the Speaker, and only the Speaker, is going back on his word,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
As a result, Schumer argued, “Speaker McCarthy has made a shutdown far more likely.”
“Despite the fact that here in the Senate we’re pursuing bipartisanship, the Speaker has chosen to elevate the whims and desires of a handful of hard-right extremists and has nothing to show for it,” Schumer said.
You can’t trust Republicans to do much of anything except lie, cheat, steal, and shut down the government these days.
Here’s a reminder of all the stuff Democrats gave up back in June and got absolutely nothing in return:
- Defunded the IRS by $21 billion
- New work requirements for SNAP and TANF
- Defunded Covid relief by $30 billion
- Restarted student loan payments
- Severe 1% cap on budget increases for the rest of Biden’s presidency (meanwhile inflation is near 4%)
- New natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia
- Major weakening of NEPA environmental reviews
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The problem is this:
At the end of the day, Democrats actually care about people. When the government is shut down, and people are unable to get their paychecks or have access to essential services, Democrats feel empathy towards them, and also want to live up to the oaths they took to serve those people.
Meanwhile, the Republicans could not give less of a shit about those people or about their oaths.
Republicans have shown us that they will quite LITERALLY destroy our democracy in order to strengthen their grip on power. If the Democrats weren’t the grown-ups in this situation, it actually wouldn’t end.
Republicans? Negotiating in bad faith? Why that’s never ever happened before! I’m sure some more pearl clutching will stop it.
It’s all about the chair and the gavel.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of going “back on his word” by abandoning the funding levels he agreed to when he and President Biden struck a deal to raise the debt limit.
“Despite the fact that here in the Senate we’re pursuing bipartisanship, the Speaker has chosen to elevate the whims and desires of a handful of hard-right extremists and has nothing to show for it,” Schumer said.
Biden and McCarthy agreed in May to set the nondefense and defense discretionary spending cap at $1.59 trillion, but the Speaker is preparing to move a House GOP-drafted continuing resolution that would be more in line with the $1.47 trillion spending top line demanded by members of the House Freedom Caucus.
The Speaker made some progress earlier this week when the House narrowly approved a rule to set up votes on four appropriations bills funding the departments of Defense, State, Agriculture and Homeland Security.
The Rules Committee, however, convened an emergency meeting to take Ukraine funding out of the Defense bill, despite the failure of the amendments.
“If we’re forced to abandon Ukraine by a handful of extreme people who seem to have no sense of the reality of the world, we will pay a price for years to come.”
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To which McCarthy replied with a Godfried quote.
YOU FOOL!!
America reminds of dumb ass little shit kids playing marbles at recess in the 1960s, bragging about playing for keeps and what their dad’s can do… You people suck as humans. Grow up.
