Jeffries slams House GOP's government funding plan: 'Unserious and unacceptable'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

09/09/24 10:58 AM ET


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP’s stopgap funding proposal as “unserious and unacceptable,” setting the stage for a close vote in the lower chamber on Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) gambit to avert a government shutdown.

Jeffries, in a letter to colleagues, said Johnson’s government funding legislation — which pairs a six-month continuing resolution with bill backed by former President Trump to require proof of citizenship to register to vote, titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — is “partisan and extreme.” Jeffries zeroed in on the timing of the continuing resolution, arguing that a shorter stopgap would be better so Congress can hash out funding for fiscal 2025 by the end of this calendar year.

“In order to avert a GOP-driven government shutdown that will hurt everyday Americans, Congress must pass a short-term continuing resolution that will permit us to complete the appropriations process during this calendar year and is free of partisan policy changes inspired by Trump’s Project 2025,” Jeffries said. “There is no other viable path forward that protects the health, safety and economic well-being of hardworking American taxpayers.”

Jeffries is the latest Democrat to hammer away at Johnson’s plan to fund the government, following Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4869447-hakeem-jeffries-government-funding-cr/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. For those of you who think there is no reason to vote

There isn’t unless you care about the economy and the society not completely falling apart to total shit, other than that yeah no reason to bother.

If the courage situation is not enough to get you to vote nothing ever will be and I question whether you deserve to be here in the first place.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Again, Republicans are in charge of the House, and again they can't even come up with a basic budget.

Is there anything they can do other than spread lies and foment hate?

[slightlv]

3. It wouldn't make a difference this time

if they DID come up with a decent funding bill that lasted all year. For one, none of their funding would match what we see as requirements for the budget, and we know they don't negotiate with Democrats, no matter what the Constitution says. It's Christofascists and Magas in House, and the filibuster in the Senate. We are ruled by the Minority.

Second, trump has already come right out and told them to shut down the government if the voting poison pill is not included. The last time he did that was on the border bill... and we know it got dropped like a hot potato. Do you think they're going to go against their Lord and Master right before election day and pass something he *doesn't* want? I think they'll do exactly what he tells them to do. All the R's coming out for Kamala, for the most part, are retired or no longer in government. We can't expect any help from the congressional R's today.

[cstanleytech]

4. The GOP makes the Taliban look like amateurs.

[slightlv]

6. Amen!!! n/t

[PSPS]

5. Everything this GOP does can be accurately described as "unserious and unacceptable"