But not the bipartisan stopgap bill that the Senate already passed, it’s the House GOP’s own dead-on-arrival bill instead.
So this is just theater of pretending to be working to prevent a shutdown while ensuring a shutdown.
Yes. This must be the stop gap bill with all the poison pills that is DOA in the Senate. I don’t understand why Kevin keeps banging his head against the wall over this stupid bill that is going nowhere. Just put the clean CR up for a vote in the House so it can pass and avoid the shutdown. If he keeps listening to the idiot fringe in his caucus he will lose the speakership anyway in 2025. But, what’s really funny is that the “moderates” are already onboard for hanging themselves with this vote, but the recipients of all these toxic concessions are still a “no.”
Like I said, it’s theater. He doesn’t actually want to avoid a shutdown, he just wants to avoid blame for the shutdown. So he’s hoping to pass this bill on purely partisan lines and then, with the help of the right-wing propaganda ecosystem, blame Senate Democrats for not passing the House GOP’s bill and pretend the Senate’s bipartisan bill never existed when the GOP extremists get the shutdown they’ve manufactured.
Hopefully senate R’s vote against it too. So far they’ve been pretty vocally against the house’s approach. Not holding my breath though.
They’ll vote for it knowing it won’t pass. It’ll just help pass the blame game.
Dems should let it pass for shits and giggles.
Also, let’s not forget that he reneged on the agreed upon deal in the first place.
The theater only works as long as peoples’ memories are short.
…and boy are they short.
Been nice knowing you, Kev. But then you were going to be ousted no matter what you did.
Been nice knowing you, Kev.
Was it, though?
Not really.
Me, personally, I don’t like spineless traitors to our democracy, but that’s okay.
Tick tock McCarthy, it’s already Thursday
This just looks like a Hail Mary to me. The GOP doesn’t even want this bill, but if he can persuade them to pass it under the pretext that it will fail in the Senate anyway, then they get to blame Senate Democrats and the GOP doesn’t have to take any responsibility for its own infighting.
The wet paper towel has grown a semblance of a spine? There is not a surprised enough Pikachu face for this.
Nah. It’s the House bill that won’t pass in the Senate. Not the bill that already passed the Senate. Another poster said so l it was just theater. Mccarthy will try to deflect blame to those who vote no on this bill, rather than own his failings as a leader and a party.
They are def getting him out now lmaoooo
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Washington — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would bring up a Republican stopgap measure for a vote on Friday ahead of a looming government shutdown, though it appears he still lacks enough support among his own GOP members to pass it before funding runs out Saturday night.
Speaking to reporters Thursday, McCarthy said he confident it would pass the House, a tall order given apparent opposition from a group of hard-right Republicans and all Democrats.
McCarthy also addressed concerns that the GOP bill would be dead on arrival in the Senate, which is advancing its own continuing resolution, adding that the House version might be able to garner support from Democrats.
With Republicans’ narrow majority in the House and Democrats united in opposition, McCarthy can only afford to lose four votes to pass any bill.
He noted that a far-right contingent who held up advancing the annual appropriations bills needed to fund the government are also against a stopgap measure.
House Republicans are also working to advance four bills to fund the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, State and Agriculture for another year, which have no chance of passing in the Senate.
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