12-20-2024, 12:27 AM
A Niagara of vile venom and stupidity.
House rejects Trump-backed plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
https://apnews.com/live/government-shutd...mp-updates
The House of Representatives has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown. Almost three dozen Republicans joined Democrats to vote against Trump’s sudden demands and the quick fix cobbled together by GOP leaders. The bill fell 174-235, failing to earn even a majority of votes.
Minutes after Republicans’ plan to avert a shutdown and raise the debt ceiling failed in the House, congressional leaders regrouped to consider what to do next.
Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Republican leader, said they wouldn’t try to bring the bill back to the floor.
Meanwhile, Rep. Chip Roy, who spearheaded Republican opposition to the bill, was defiant outside the chamber.
“I’m ambitious to make sure that we actually cut spending. I’m ambitious to do what we said we would do,” he told reporters.
On the opposite side of the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said: “It’s a good thing the bill failed in the House, now it’s time to go back to the bipartisan agreement we came to.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans “are not serious about helping working-class Americans,” adding, “They are simply doing the bidding of their wealthy donors and puppeteers. Unacceptable.”
House rejects Trump-backed plan on government shutdown, leaving next steps uncertain
https://apnews.com/live/government-shutd...mp-updates
The House of Representatives has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown. Almost three dozen Republicans joined Democrats to vote against Trump’s sudden demands and the quick fix cobbled together by GOP leaders. The bill fell 174-235, failing to earn even a majority of votes.
Minutes after Republicans’ plan to avert a shutdown and raise the debt ceiling failed in the House, congressional leaders regrouped to consider what to do next.
Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Republican leader, said they wouldn’t try to bring the bill back to the floor.
Meanwhile, Rep. Chip Roy, who spearheaded Republican opposition to the bill, was defiant outside the chamber.
“I’m ambitious to make sure that we actually cut spending. I’m ambitious to do what we said we would do,” he told reporters.
On the opposite side of the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said: “It’s a good thing the bill failed in the House, now it’s time to go back to the bipartisan agreement we came to.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans “are not serious about helping working-class Americans,” adding, “They are simply doing the bidding of their wealthy donors and puppeteers. Unacceptable.”