After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
A short-term funding measure to keep government offices fully functioning will dominate the September agenda, along with emergency funding for Ukraine, federal disaster funds and the Republican-driven probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.
Time is running short for Congress to act. The House is scheduled to meet for just 11 days before the government’s fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, leaving little room to maneuver. And the deal-making will play out as two top Republicans, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, deal with health issues.
Impeachment for what?
“We’ll figure that out afterwards”
The Republicans from districts which voted for Biden must be several drinks deep already. Either they buck the party line and become reviled, or they give into the obvious far right bullshit and become reviled. Either way, their careers are done. It’s the sort of unenviable position that’s only possible when you sell your soul to be a Republican.
Even better, the plurality blames Republicans for the debt ceiling crisis. Leadership is aware that these childish stunts are a net negative for them. Combining a shutdown with a frivolous impeachment is throwing water into an oil fire.
Ive heard false death knells for republicans way too many times over several decades. After Trump, theres no amount of depravity conservative voters arent willing to overlook.
If anything, I feel like ditching Trump might help them. He goes to prison, it’s the deep state democrats. Oh, we’re you in the Republicans Against Trump group? Well he’s gone, so we can being in people who sat the same things, bur sounds smarter sometimes. Hello fellow kids. I’m a cool radical liberal, much like you! Now that the orange man(Ha! Remember that meme!) is gone, we can totes relax and hang out with our bros, instead of worrying about politics!
Luckily I think a lot of people have realized it’s much bigger than Trump, but they just need enough people to fall for it.
Gotta treat every opportunity like it’s the one that’ll be the death knell. We won’t get to it unless we do.
Wouldn’t it be great if they could stop playing chicken with people’s lives…
They treat it like a game because it’s not them that suffer at the end, it’s the gov employees at the bottom living paycheck to paycheck who get screwed over when their check doesn’t come in because of a House dick measuring contest.
I wish I only had to work 11 days this month.
I cannot wait to get out of this fucking country.
Which one though? Countries in Europe are having fascism issues too like Italy, Poland, and probably more.
Really? Poland is the country you went for? Not Italy, with the actual Fascist offshoot party in power and the actual granddaughter of Mussolini in their parliament?
Did you miss the “italy” he wrote right before poland? Eyes run right over it?
The USA is one of the only countries in the world that will tax citizens who are living and working in foreign countries. So there may be benefits depending on your situation.
Looks like you’re only taxed if you make over $120,000/year abroad (for tax year 2023): https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/figuring-the-foreign-earned-income-exclusion
Most countries require you to renounce your citizenship to foreign nations as part of their immigration and alien residency program.
The United States is one place where they do not require you to actually live/reside within the borders to maintain citizenship, but they still tax you as if you did, even if you have dual citizenship or fully reside in another country.
Boris Johnson was a natural-born US citizen but gave up his citizenship to hold political office in the UK.
Impeachment? Biden?
Could they be any more butthurt? They have nothing on him, we know this- they know this- but anything to waste time and money from the “conserving” party, right?
What a fucking joke they are.
