Senator Rick Scott blasts House Speaker Mike Johnson over a massive 1500+ page spending bill.
Another Reckless Continuing Resolution From Johnson
The Wall Street Journal comments Sprawling Nature of Package Angers Some Republicans
Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal Tuesday to keep the government funded through mid-March and provide more than $100 billion in relief to disaster victims and farmers, but the sprawling nature of the package angered some House Republicans.
The legislation was released just days ahead of Friday’s deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. While keeping federal operations running for several months, the bipartisan proposal also includes a slew of other measures, ranging from funding the rebuilding of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, to expanding the sale of ethanol, to limiting some investments in China.
The final 1,547-page package ignited a firestorm among some Republicans, who complained about its “Christmas tree” nature and the short time to review it, echoing complaints they have made repeatedly since the party won the majority two years ago. Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) has aimed to give members roughly 72 hours to review bills, but that would be unlikely this time.
“Terrible night for the taxpayer, but what’s new?” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.) ticking off what he saw as wasteful provisions.
“They are cramming everything into one giant bill and guilt-trip you if you vote against it,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) on X. “I’m all for hurricane relief, but stop trying to disguise reckless government spending.”
Blast from Senator Scott
The most scathing attack came Senator Rick Scott on X.
A “clean CR,” right? 1,500+ pages, billions in reckless and unpaid spending, new bills that we have no time to review and wouldn’t have passed otherwise—business as usual in Washington! Yet another reason we need President Trump and
@DOGE to help us stop this crap and clean the federal government up.
Beyond Pathetic
There is no excuse for passing anything other than the bare minimum to keep government running till the next Congress can look at things.
This is beyond pathetic.
MishTalk Flashback
Please note the year, January 4, 2023: A Terrible Start for the Dysfunctional GOP, Who Will Be House Speaker?
Refusing to Take Yes For An Answer
Despite the fact that McCarthy gave in to the rebel’s demands and their hero does not even want the job, they will not back McCarthy.
Eventually McCarthy was given the Speakership with a poison pill. In October, Republicans pulled the trigger and booted McCarthy for Johnson.
McCarthy’s crime was agreeing to a continuing resolution, but it was with many things the Freedom Caucus demanded. Then guess what …
Flashback November 11, 2023: No Surprise, House Speaker Johnson Proposes Same Plan as McCarthy
Flashback November 14, 2023: Hoot of the Day: 209 Democrats and 127 Republicans Pass Clean Spending Bill
New Republican House Speaker, Mike Johnson, just passed the exact same bill that got former House speaker Kevin McCarthy booted.
Three Things
Ahead of the vote to oust McCarthy I said three things: 1) Some gains are better than none 2) The eight people who ousted McCarthy would not set policy 3) The GOP would get nothing out of ousting McCarthy.
Correct on all three counts.
Many people thought that meant my statements meant that I like McCarthy. I don’t. I was just offering a pragmatic view of what was going to happen.
Total Clown Show
McCarthy offered to try for some things the Gaetz wanted. Gaetz’s hero replacement, Mike Johnson, did not even try.
Flashback January 7, 2024: Spending Deal Reached, the Republican Freedom Caucus Condemns It
“A total failure, even worse than we thought”, said the Freedom Caucus.
Gee, who could has possibly predicted that?
January 18, 2024: Mike Johnson Is the New (But Not Improved) Kevin McCarthy
The House just passed Mike Johnson’s bipartisan continuing resolution punt.
Dear Republicans, please wave the white flag and surrender before doing more damage, because more damage is on the table just today.
March 21, 2024: Republican Humiliation Enshrined in Huge 1,000-Page $1.2 Trillion Bill
Let’s discuss the humiliating details of the swamp omnibus bill including funding for transgender clothes, the WHO, and gender identity help.
Bear in mind that $1.526 trillion McCarthy proposed was for the whole shebang, 12 separate items.
The $1.2 Trillion that is on the table is for six components, not the entire budget.
At a minimum, we are at $2.086 trillion. And that is not counting Biden’s request for another $100 billion or so for Ukraine and Israel.
Fact Checks
- Republicans said no more omnibus massive bills: Failure
- Republicans demanded budget cutbacks: Failure
- Republicans said they would restore order: Failure
- Republicans said they would pass bills without Democrats: Failure
- Republicans said no more continuing resolutions: 3 Failures
The worst House deal in history was the forced trade of Speaker Kevin McCarthy for Mike Johnson.
What a disaster.
Is it possible that the speaker hadn’t discussed the CR with his boss elites? The billionaire oligarchy and doge-ists have commenced and before 20 January. The government will shut down. The great chaos has been set in motion. The US economy will sharply contract with the greatest ever of accumulated US consumer debt, new tariff related inflation, and consumer debt interest rates and new mortgage rates tied to the rising US Ten Year Note … and with an isolationist, contracting-governmental-spending 2024 Herbert Hoover administration running the show … Great expectations.
If we just wait long enough the Democrats will take care of it all by spending more money than can possibly be printed in one year and the Republicans can continue to do nothing and claim they solved the problem.
The situation is just as bad in Canada. The federal government predicted a 40 billion Cdn dollar deficit for the fiscal year. It exceeded that toal by 21 billion Cdn. dollars for a total deficit of $61 billion!
We have a balanced budget amendment. Don’t pass a spending bill.
What an absolutely corrupt scumbag.
The Doge (Il Duce) of Venice conquered the swamps of the Lagoon to build a city that’s lasted 1400 years.
But our DOGE is powerless against The Swamp & its tentacled creatures.
And this is a sign of what’s to come. Trump, Johnson & Thune won’t have the backbone to shut down the government to extract real cuts. One of the biggest questions will be do they push for a return to approving 12 real budgets? Again, I have my doubts. Trump is going to sail through his four years without REALLY pushing us down the path towards fiscal responsibility.
This will fall on whomever takes over in 2028 and IMHO that’s the administration that faces the real apocalypse.
This sounds like a total turnaround from your previous posts (since November) of what Trump was elected to do with his mandate.
He hasn’t even taken office yet, and you’re already dismissing his responsibility for what he promised and putting it on his successor?
The R’s are in the minority in senate; main power they have is “no”/shutdown.
MSM will (righly) blame the R’s for shutdown but not tell audience the rationale.
Most R’s are not media savvy enough to control the message and tell their story/rationale. All they know how to do is go on the Kudlow FBN show.
As someone says, it’s 4D chess: 1) Trump’s cutting looks better against the larger CR baseline; 2) desire to stay in honeymoon phase with media until the real work starts Jan 20.
“Beyond Pathetic”
It follows the arc of the Roman Empire. It is an ancient template. all hail the Roman Senate.
Speaker Johnson is no better than McCarthy and probably a worse negotiator. But remember that McCarthy supposedly had side deals on spending and emergency spending was not included in his original deal. Call these men an even swap. The problem is that the R’s have no leverage in a budget deal. They don’t want to use the debt ceiling as leverage and are afraid of a shut down and EVERYONE in DC knows it. Since the Dems have no mutual interest in helping, they dictate the terms. Johnson’s problem is that he is weak and wants us to pretend NOT to see it. He should get a bare bones package that carries until January 21 or so AND be willing to risk a government shutdown to get it.
“We have to do it for the children”
“Lucy van Pelt Pulls Another Reckless Football”
FIFY
Don’t cut you, don’t cut me, cut that grifter behind the tree.
I don’t know, Mish. I always try to view changes from an initially positive POV.
Maybe this is one of those 4D chess examples I hear about occasionally from commenters here? Maybe the Republican House decided to screw over Biden one last time since they start and control the government budget (since Biden does not write us these CR proposals)? You know, that Republican House where MAGA (however many there are of those there) and the Freedom Caucus reign?
Maybe they plan to continue the old budget for 4 more months, PLUS add a bunch of new spending so the deficit gets completely blown out of the water? So “Biden’s” deficit stats look even worse historically? And then in March, when Trump and the new Republican Senate is in session, the Republican House will completely turn 180 degrees and and offer up a proposal to cut $3 trillion annually from the budget to balance the books?
Then Trump and the Republicans will look even better later? Am I getting this 4D chess idea right? Or am I missing something?
Here’s a straightforward solution to these omnibus spending bills:
1) Each agency (defense, education, etc) has a separate bill
2) Every bill must be read in its entirety, aloud, on the House floor, in front of TV cameras, without interruption or break
3) Any section that funds, say, over $10B has to be put in its own bill
That would be a start of transparency, at least. Ideally citizens could vote for the spending they prefer via their tax returns, but that is more ambitious.
So lot of complaining but where is the Votes in House to come from that are in favor of restraining spending? Johnson same as McCarthy before him does not have the votes.
Many of GOP congress critters come from states which are purple or blue. To get elected they will stay in the lane of Center right and not budge into a conservative tilt.
This why Trump will be an exercise in a Robust Presidency. If anything is going to get done it will be led from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
If he is able to turn economy around then midterms will be favorable towards realigning House. So far he has drained talent from House to Johnson’s detriment.
Which indicates where he believes that talent would do most good, in his administration.
It’s economic heroin addiction. You can’t stop and always need a little more. There is always one answer to, “how long can this go on?” Until it can’t go on anymore.
Putin and Xi know the game. Push forward and avoid nuclear war. Wait it out until the Hegemony fails.
Stock market is historic high.
Less spending = less liquidity = reverse stock market high
DOGE induced recession is coming.
People who complain about voting libertarian being a wasted vote should reflect on how much value they’ve gotten from team red, and then remember to be quiet.
I asked Grok to summarize the Bill but it said it could do much yet since the spending proposal has not been published but promised to give a detailed summary when it comes out. It did however mention some what it knew such as $100 billion for disaster relief and money for the RFK Stadium Revitalization and a few other things.
Musk said before that Grok will be used to give people useful summaries of these ridiculously long bills that Congress comes up with so regular people could understand what is in them. I also might add that the same is true for legislators who were handed this 1500-page long bill with only 72 hours to study it.
Don’t worry, when Trump/GOP take full control of all branches of government in 32 days it will all be rainbows and unicorns! We are all going to the promised land!
But just in case we are not, prepare for stock market crash, inflationary spiral, soaring bond yields, and other mayhem.
Maybe your guy, Biden, will veto this CR, seeing as how he’s so principled and all.
I don’t have any “guy.” I just have a desire for stable, consistent profits. Of course, I’ll be profiting from Trump admin too, just need to change strategy to buy SPY puts on rallies and wait for him to open his mouth or issue an executive order to roil markets.
Same game, different strategies, same outcome: profits. Trump’s way requires a bit more work as I have to monitor things more closely. Some day, when you grow up and get rich, you’ll understand.
I find bragging about wealth to be much like penis size. The larger the brag the less there is.
He and that blowhard Papa should collaborate. Together they would be unstoppable!
Lol! you’re right, it’s much better to whine endlessly like a little baby about how “bad” the Biden juggernaut economy has been. Waaah! Waaah! Waaah! Don’t worry, you’ll get your trump pacifier in 32 days and I’ll just be richer….. 😉
I can’t wait for Trump team to cut medicare and SS. We all get the president we deserve!
like a breakfast sausage am i right?
I thought Paul Klugman retired but I guess he still makes comments somewhere.
“But just in case we are not, prepare for stock market crash, inflationary spiral, soaring bond yields, and other mayhem.”
All stuff that needs to happen befote anything will be fixed.