While Democrats unite behind Harris, House GOP unites in disarray
In the 24 hours following President Joe Biden’s announcement ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats rallied with record speed behind Harris, with endorsements and a jaw-dropping surge in donations. So what were the Republicans who are in charge of the House doing in those 24 hours? The usual: falling apart. Chaos once again ruled in Speaker Mike Johnson’s chamber. Just a month ago, Johnson was touting his leadership’s plan to have all 12 of the government agency funding bills passed before August recess. So far, they’ve passed four. The plan for the next two weeks was to wrap up another four, two this week and two next. But within hours of the House convening Monday morning, the first two bills were yanked off the schedule. As we’ve seen time and time again—under both Johnson and his predecessor Kevin McCarthy—the slim GOP majority in the House is being overrun by the maniacs. In this case, the extremists are insisting on attaching abortion-related poison pills to the funding bills, as usual, and the people charged with trying to get the job done are stymied. They can’t get the votes to pass them. At least they are keeping up their record as the least productive Congress in modern history. They’re stuck on those appropriations bills—the one main thing the House is responsible for—because of infighting, and once again are apparently planning to just put off the fight. Leadership is considering just giving up on governing for the time being, and starting their August recess two weeks early. That’s in essence calling it quits on legislating between now and the election, and means that the only thing that’s likely to be accomplished by the House once they get back to work after Labor Day will be a short-term government funding bill to tide it over until after the election. And that will only happen because Democrats won’t let the government shut down. Again! It’s particularly ironic that this is all happening just a week after the big “unity” convention the Republicans had last week. Once again, it seems like Democrats are showing them how to do it. RELATED STORIES: Kamala Harris rakes in endorsements—and dough Democrats save the day, avert government shutdown Déjà vu: Chaotic House takes government to the brink of shutdown Let’s keep that momentum going! Donate $3 apiece to help flip these 16 vulnerable Republican seats so we can take back the House in 2024!!
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In the 24 hours following President Joe Biden’s announcement ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats rallied with record speed behind Harris, with endorsements and a jaw-dropping surge in donations.
So what were the Republicans who are in charge of the House doing in those 24 hours? The usual: falling apart. Chaos once again ruled in Speaker Mike Johnson’s chamber.
Just a month ago, Johnson was touting his leadership’s plan to have all 12 of the government agency funding bills passed before August recess. So far, they’ve passed four. The plan for the next two weeks was to wrap up another four, two this week and two next. But within hours of the House convening Monday morning, the first two bills were yanked off the schedule.
As we’ve seen time and time again—under both Johnson and his predecessor Kevin McCarthy—the slim GOP majority in the House is being overrun by the maniacs. In this case, the extremists are insisting on attaching abortion-related poison pills to the funding bills, as usual, and the people charged with trying to get the job done are stymied. They can’t get the votes to pass them. At least they are keeping up their record as the least productive Congress in modern history.
They’re stuck on those appropriations bills—the one main thing the House is responsible for—because of infighting, and once again are apparently planning to just put off the fight. Leadership is considering just giving up on governing for the time being, and starting their August recess two weeks early.
That’s in essence calling it quits on legislating between now and the election, and means that the only thing that’s likely to be accomplished by the House once they get back to work after Labor Day will be a short-term government funding bill to tide it over until after the election. And that will only happen because Democrats won’t let the government shut down. Again!
It’s particularly ironic that this is all happening just a week after the big “unity” convention the Republicans had last week. Once again, it seems like Democrats are showing them how to do it.
RELATED STORIES:
Kamala Harris rakes in endorsements—and dough
Democrats save the day, avert government shutdown
Déjà vu: Chaotic House takes government to the brink of shutdown
