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Republicans scrap spending bill, under pressure from Trump and Musk


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2024 Dec 19, 12:13pm   528 views  52 comments

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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/killing-the-blob-thursday-december


Yesterday, the Washington Post wrote perhaps the most politically significant story in the modern era, headlined “Republicans scrap spending bill, under pressure from Trump and Musk.” The Bureaucratic Blob did everything it could to stop exactly what happened, but it happened anyway. In other words, they can’t stop it anymore. Let me explain.

“Democrats,” the Post began, “were outraged at the collapse of their deal.” (Well. Outrage is their defining characteristic, besides arrogance.) Outraged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) darkly warned, “an agreement is an agreement.” He vowed that “House Republicans will now own any harm that is visited upon the American people.”

Their deal? You can probably already sense, if Democrats are this flummoxed, the outcome was something really good, and it was.

I wasn’t exaggerating when I described yesterday’s climactic battle as perhaps the most politically significant story in modern history. The timeline fits into a single workday. Wednesday began with an early-morning release of a 1,600-page proposed budget that had been kept secret until yesterday—the day of the vote. Except for party leaders and backroom participants, most lawmakers only saw it for the first time around 7am, with a vote scheduled for later that afternoon.

Initial reactions from Congress were furious. Representative Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) took a quick look and tweeted that there were nine (9) pages of continuing resolution —the part needed to keep the federal government running at current funding levels— followed by more than 1,550 pages of new spending over prior levels. Other lawmakers wondered how they were supposed to read and vote on a 1,600-page bill in less than one day without even advance notice.

For comparison, the previous continuing resolution passed by Congress only ran to 21 pages. Here’s Rep. Mace comparing the two bills:




Despite having frittered away months to get it done, Speaker Johnson scheduled the critical vote toward the end of the final week right before Christmas break and two days before federal government funding runs out on Friday afternoon. No pressure.

You might ask how in the name of Benjamin Franklin are hundreds of Representatives supposed to read 1,600 pages of dense statutory text in a few hours and then vote intelligently? What about informed consent? Why not give them at least a week?

Everyone knows: these mega-pork bills are deliberately released late, under pressure, with no time for reading, so that nobody can read it and tell the public what’s in it before it is too late.

In the clip linked above, yesterday morning, well before the bill died on the operating table, terrific Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna complained about being forced to vote on a bill without understanding it: “I don’t know how else to say it. This is a sh— sandwich. We’re damned if we do, and damned if we don’t.”

Or as bionic-hipped Nancy Pelosi once quipped through slipping dentures, “we have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”

The bill itself was terrible. It was a dreamlike Festivus grab-bag stuffed with Democrats’ worst progessive ideas. You’ve probably seen the lists. Had it passed, hundreds of progressive fantasies would have been fulfilled, everything from replacing the word “criminal” in the Federal code with “justice-involved individual,” to funding “at least twelve” new secret biolabs for “pandemic prevention.” Uh huh. It had $70 billion more for Ukraine, funding for government censorship, and would have expanded government pandemic powers.

This Franken-pork bill offered everyone something to hate. Personally, I was outraged that the bill would have —at this late date— finally cut off many vaccine-related powers given to the HHS Secretary — right before Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s arrival. I’ve been reassuring you that Kennedy can fix the latest crazy covid declarations from HHS. But this bill would have “fixed” Kennedy, leaving the incoming HHS Secretary newly powerless to stop the covid state of emergency till after Trump’s term.

No. Thank. You.

In return for this progressive nuclear disaster, Republicans “negotiated” two priorities for conservatives. The bill included funding for disaster victims —who should have already been funded, by FEMA— and funding for farmers, who are amidst the latest farming emergency of some kind, which always seems to pop out of its disaster box every budget cycle and which helps many distressed Hollywood celebrities and progressive politicians smart enough to buy small farms to get in on the game.

It remains unclear why Republicans gave Democrats so much pork to get two items in return, since Republicans are in the majority and can pass a budget without Democrats.

By mid-morning, a war of words had exploded on X. It was the war the Frankenfunders hoped to avoid. Users started posting excerpts and summaries from the bill. Elon began reposting critical comments.

Trump, who’d kept silent till then, posted three unusually well-drafted comments on his Truth Social platform. The President-Elect wanted the House to do its job, and pass a continuing resolution without all the Festivus presents for Democrats. Most importantly, he wants Republicans to raise the debt ceiling so he won’t have to do it as soon as he gets into office.

They literally have more Republicans in the House now than they will have in 2025. Why not now?

By mid-afternoon, the continuing resolution was taking on water, but it was still afloat and remained viable for a vote. At 1:17pm, just hours after the 1,600-page monster first became available to read, Government Efficiency Czar Elon Musk tweeted a threat to GOP lawmakers: if they vote for the bill, he hinted there would be primary challenges against them in their next election cycle. That threat seems to have been what did it. As the WaPo reported, the bill, already on life support, coded and joined the Ghost of Christmas Past. Headline from the Hill:

Elon Musk: Anyone who votes for
spending deal should lose reelection
BY JULIA SHAPERO - 12/18/24

Elon didn’t say he would fund primary efforts against porky Republicans. But he did, after all, just shepherd the most successful political turnaround in history. So.

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1   Ceffer   2024 Dec 19, 12:15pm  

https://patrick.net/post/1382910/2024-12-19-sneaky-impenetrable-porkulus-bill

Sneaky Impenetrable Porkulus Bill-Zillas Dissected At Last By Social Media Parallel Processing And Shoved Back Down Congress' Throat
2   Patrick   2024 Dec 19, 12:15pm  

Maybe the failure of the porculous bill is why the stock market fell yesterday.

Such spending bills are funded by borrowing from the Fed, which means massive printing by the Fed, which means inflation, big time.

Stocks generally go up with inflation. So maybe stocks went down because the expected inflation won't materialize without the latest porculous budget.
3   Ceffer   2024 Dec 19, 1:24pm  

All of it spells 'laundering'. Everything they do now is money laundering by another (preferably virtue signaling) misdirection name. I would bet every one of these has a hashtag about which politician gets the laundered graft.

7   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2024 Dec 19, 3:34pm  

Priorities, people! Nancy Mace has a nice rack.


11   WookieMan   2024 Dec 19, 3:58pm  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Priorities, people! Nancy Mace has a nice rack.




Gravity ain't gonna do much for that unless Elon ships her to low earth orbit. Give it 10 years and those will be at her coochie without a bra that can hold boulders. Think ratchet straps with canvas.
12   Patrick   2024 Dec 19, 4:10pm  


Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily
expensive Continuing Resolution, PLUS, is
dying fast, but can anyone imagine passing
it without either terminating, or extending,
the Debt Ceiling guillotine coming up in
June? Unless the Democrats terminate or
substantially extend Debt Ceiling now, I will
fight 'till the end. This is a nasty TRAP set in
place by the Radical Left Democrats! They
are looking to embarrass us in June when it
comes up for a Vote. The people that
extended it, from September 28th to June
1st, should be ashamed of themselves. It
was political malpractice! Also, the
Communist Global Engagement Center, a
project of Crooked Hillary Clinton, should not
in any way, shape, or form be extended and,
the shielding of the very corrupt J6 Unselect
Committee of Political Losers and Thugs
would be suicidal for any Republican
approving it. Likewise, this is not a good
time for Congress to be asking for pay
increases. Hopefully, you'll be entitled to
such an increase in the near future when we,
"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
13   Patrick   2024 Dec 19, 4:11pm  


Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing
Resolution without all of the Democrat "bells
and whistles" that will be so destructive to
our Country, all it will do, after January 20th,
is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the
Trump Administration, rather than allowing it
to take place in the Biden Administration.
Any Republican that would be so stupid as
to do this should, and will, be Primaried.
Everything should be done, and fully
negotiated, prior to my taking Office on
January 20th, 2025.
14   Patrick   2024 Dec 19, 4:12pm  


JD Vance
@JDVance
Dec 18

A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance:

The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.

Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.

Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.

Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.

THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!
Dec 18, 2024
18   Ceffer   2024 Dec 19, 4:39pm  

My wife said Fox News said it was 'Trump's Bill' that was defeated. WTF?
19   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2024 Dec 19, 4:48pm  

Ceffer says

My wife said Fox News said it was 'Trump's Bill' that was defeated. WTF?


There's another CR bill. 30 some odd Reps joined the Dems in voting it down.

Not that it would survive in the Senate anyway.
22   Patrick   2024 Dec 19, 6:43pm  

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-yale-researchers-have-found/comment/82307545


Politically Homeless
3h

And to think that Congress in this new bill (that hopefully was defeated yesterday) had a stipulation in it that gave them the right to call for vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. The powers to be are not done yet.
23   AmericanKulak   2024 Dec 19, 11:51pm  

Patrick says


https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-yale-researchers-have-found/comment/82307545

Politically Homeless
3h

And to think that Congress in this new bill (that hopefully was defeated yesterday) had a stipulation in it that gave them the right to call for vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. The powers to be are not done yet.

THE SPENDING BILL WOULD HAVE BLOCKED RFK JR. FROM UPDATING HHS PROTOCOL ON VACCINE INJURIES

On page 757, the bill amends the previously-passed “Prevent Pandemic Act” (42 USC 6627):




https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1869744018046980555
24   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2024 Dec 20, 4:51am  

The COVID 19 transfection products are regarded as medical countermeasures, in the same category as Sarin or a dirty bomb.

About MCMs

Medical countermeasures, or MCMs, are FDA-regulated products (biologics, drugs, devices) that may be used in the event of a potential public health emergency stemming from a terrorist attack with a biological, chemical, or radiological/nuclear material, or a naturally occurring emerging disease.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/about-mcms/what-are-medical-countermeasures

And who signed the PREP Act? The war criminal president, GW Bush.
26   Ceffer   2024 Dec 20, 11:26am  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says





The Fifth Column calling the 4th branch dirty. Only in the foreign occupied foreign Roman brawl known as Washington DC.
27   Ceffer   2024 Dec 21, 1:41am  

In short, the mega-bill laundering engine has been overturned and exposed. A lot of Congress critters aren't getting their Christmas laundering bonuses, and maybe not as much expected future campaign funding.




https://t.me/BenjaminFulfordFans/144324
28   clambo   2024 Dec 21, 10:24am  

Nancy Mace is racked out and she knows it.
I love that slightly slutty outfit; low top under a jacket showing a lot of "decolletage".
I've dated racked out girls who tried to hide it and I would tell them to show me some more skin when we go out to dinner, etc.
Oh, I'm off the subject.
I dislike Tesla cars but I think Musk is cool, and anyone who drives an asshole like Jamie Ruskin nuts is fine with me.
29   Ceffer   2024 Dec 21, 10:34am  

Compare bill with graft, corruption and money laundering with edited bill. The cornucopia of Congressional self dealing in a nutshell.

40   Ceffer   2024 Dec 21, 10:49am  

Elon weaponized Gen X.

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