• athos77@kbin.social
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    The House bill gives them a pay raise for CoLA, and doesn’t include support for Ukraine. They’d promised earlier this year that every bill would have 72 hours to be read and reviewed; they introduced this one and called for a vote minutes later. Fuck the Republicans.

  • Jordan117@lemmy.world
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    I fear this is going to be a turning point for the party to turn fully against Ukraine. McConnell apparently argued forcefully in favor of keeping the funding intact, but got overruled by most of the caucus, including Thune (one of the top candidates to replace him). And this is the Senate Republicans we’re talking about, the House caucus is even more openly antagonistic.

    Keeping Democratic control of the White House and Congress next year could be key to Ukraine defeating Russia.

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    ”Federal agencies had already drawn up detailed plans that spell out what services would continue, like airport screening and border patrols, and what must shut down, like scientific research and nutrition aid to 7 million poor mothers.”

    Thank goodness they had their priorities straight. Those poor mothers can fuckin’ starve as long as we can continue our useless airport screenings.

    /s

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      You don’t understand clearly.

      White business owners need those planes to make their sales calls. The money generated by those sales trickles down to…

      *checks notes*

      Other white business owners?

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        I love your energy and old white business owners suck but if you think it’s only rich white assholes vs rich assholes I’ve got a sane place in Florida to sell you.

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    “I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy told reporters. “And you know what? If I have to risk my job for standing up for the American public, I will do that.”

    Translation: “My donors told me that I wouldn’t get any more support if I wrecked their stock prices, so I have to walk back my extremist threats so I can still rake in money for re-election as a rep.”

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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    The gorilla in the room nobody seems to want to mention is that this sort of headline shouldn’t even have a reason to exist. The budget should not be up for any kind of contention. Holding the operation of this country for ransom should be treated as a crime against every tax paying citizen and we need a way to hold them responsible

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    9 months ago

    This is only for 45 days but interesting that it doesn’t include the 1% cut agreed to in the last deal.