Republican Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) tore into his GOP colleagues during a Thursday appearance on Newsmax, criticizing their approach to government funding and saying his colleagues in the party have “nothing to campaign on.”

Biggs, former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, slammed his conference after being asked how many of the 12 individual spending bills the House Republicans completed during an appearance on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”

“None. None. None have been completed,” Biggs said. “There’ve been a few of them. Seven I think have been sent to the Senate from the House. The Senate has not taken up a single one of those bills. How do you campaign on the trust of the American people? You failed and continue to fund this goofy Ukraine, this outrageous Ukraine debacle that’s going on.”

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weird how russia literally invades neighbor… but thats just ‘goofy stuff’.

what we really needs is whole states spending whole governments time so they can regulate the .001% of the population who are trans. lets keep that incredibly expensive human-time to something worthwhile, after all.

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As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

-Abraham Lincoln, back before Republicans were the know-nothing traitor party

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Oh look, another republican traitor actively working for our geopolitical enemy. The republican traitor swine must be dealt with.

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As if the GOP campaigns on accomplishments. They will campaign as they always do, on scary wedge issues and very thinly veiled bigotry.

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“None. None. None have been completed,” Biggs said. “There’ve been a few of them. Seven I think have been sent to the Senate from the House. The Senate has not taken up a single one of those bills. How do you campaign on the trust of the American people? You failed and continue to fund this goofy Ukraine, this outrageous Ukraine debacle that’s going on.”

Don’t confuse this with criticism of the GOP. It is clearly Senate Democrats fault that House Republicans can’t get their shit together…

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Wow, good read!

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It’s paywalled

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