ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a motion to remove the gavel from House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday morning after she categorized the GOP’s handling of its slim majority as an abject failure.

Greene’s move came after he worked with Democrats to pass an appropriations bill totaling $1.2 trillion early Friday to fund the government throughout the remainder of the year, NBC News reported.

“We need a Speaker of the House who will fight to secure America’s border at all cost!” she posted on social media.

“Not one that passes a trillion dollar Democrat wish list that continues the border invasion, funds the weaponized government, and breaks our own conference rules,” the congresswoman said.

MY COMMENT: Mike Johnson's passage of the appropriations bills WITHOUT USING HIS POWER OF THE PURSE AS LEVERAGE TO SOLVE THE BORDER CRISIS IS INEXCUSABLE. If you are not familiar with the process of funding the Federal Government, here is a brief summary:

In the United States Congress, an appropriations bill is legislation to appropriate federal funds to specific federal government departments, agencies and programs. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment and activities. Regular appropriations bills are passed annually, with the funding they provide covering one fiscal year. The fiscal year is the accounting period of the federal government, which runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. Appropriations bills are under the jurisdiction of the United States House Committee on Appropriations and the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations. Both Committees have twelve matching subcommittees, each tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills.

When Congress is UNABLE TO DO IT'S JOB, they rely on "continuing resolutions", "omnibus" or "mini-bus" bills to avoid the nitty gritty work of allocating funding to needed essential spending, and avoid "pork projects"/earmarks that blow the lid of federal spending. That's why we have a $34 Trillion Dollar National Debt.

Congress has enacted one or more CRs in all but three of the 47 fiscal years since the start of the fiscal year was changed to October 1 beginning in FY1977. FY1997 was the last fiscal year for which no CRs were enacted. Fourteen times between FY1998 and FY2023, the initial CR (and for some years, subsequent CRs as well) provided continuing appropriations for all of the regular appropriations acts. During that same period, funding for one or more regular appropriations acts was provided in CRs for an average of 137 days before the appropriations process was completed for that year. For some fiscal years, a CR has provided continuing appropriations through the end of that year (often referred to as a fullyear CR).

https://twitter.com/repmtg/status/1770949344994181252

Liberty Tree

The kind we need could not get chosen.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Unresolved stalemate may be just the thing we need to focus the public's attention to the matter. Hopefully they can avoid the pressure by the unrelenting liberal media and hammer away on the border, no further taxpayer money to Ukraine, and need to control spending as the key issues of this election.

MidnightRider

Nah, although I agree 200% remember the two before him? Worse, weren't they? And they were there longer. We won't get the guy we want at least not yet.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

I would rather see the conservatives in congress force the issue. Let this next election be a pivot point upon which the direction of the country will turn. Force the RINO's to vote with the Democrats and let the public choose which direction they want the country to go.

As I stated previously, "Congress has enacted one or more CRs in all but three of the 47 fiscal years since the start of the fiscal year was changed to October 1 beginning in FY1977. Fourteen times between FY1998 and FY2023, the initial CR (and for some years, subsequent CRs as well) provided continuing appropriations for all of the regular appropriations acts.

The appropriation process is FUBAR. If you continue to do the same thing over and over, how will you ever get a different result?

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Listen to what MTG has to say about speaker Mike Johnson. He presents the Omnibus bill to his members at 2:32 Thursday morning, after they were denied any input into the bill. They had less than 24 hours to review the 1,012 page bill, (which byt increased funding to the NGO's that are exacerbating the border crisis). He violates conference rules, and continues funding the government WITHOUT ANY IMPROVEMENT FOR BORDER SECURITY.


https://rumble.com/v4l1vcw-rep.-mtg-calls-for-rep.-mike-gallagher-to-be-expelled-omnibus-was-attack-on.html