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"Never let it be said that establishment operatives within the Republican Party apparatus can’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The only questions that remain are these…"
ORIGINAL CONTENT: https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/tone-deaf-republicans-and-the-man
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'Meltdown': DHS shutdown set to drag on after House GOP rejects Senate deal
Speaker Mike Johnson instead had the House vote on a two-month funding punt that cannot pass the Senate.
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House Republicans moved Friday to further extend the six-week shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, snubbing a bipartisan Senate bill that would fund the vast majority of DHS agencies through September and moving ahead with a plan of their own that stands little chance of becoming law.
All Republicans and three Democrats — moderate Reps. Don Davis of North Carolina, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Henry Cuellar of Texas — voted in favor of a emporary extension of all DHS funding through May 22, including immigration enforcement. The gavel came down on the 213-203 vote just before midnight Saturday morning, when the agency shutdown will become the longest funding lapse in U.S. history.
The measure will not pass the Senate, which has adjourned for a two week recess through April 13 with no imminent plans to reconvene.
Now confronting an impasse, Republican leaders in both chambers stare down the tall task of brokering a fresh compromise to end the shutdown without any obvious off-ramps.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise signaled late Friday his chamber would be leaving town now, too.
“Obviously we’ve got to see what they do now. I mean, if they make changes, that’s part of the legislative process,” Scalise told reporters regarding the Senate, when asked if House GOP leaders would call back the House early from recess to negotiate an end to the shutdown.
“But right now, we’ve sent them a bill, and we’re going to be watching closely what they do,” Scalise continued. “And I hope they pass that bill to the president, because it makes sure that the department is fully funded at a time we’re at a heightened level of threat in America.”
Speaker Mike Johnson put the gears in motion Friday morning, when he announced that House Republicans simply could not swallow the Senate’s bill, which omits funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Border Patrol and some other parts of Customs and Border Protection.
“The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,” Johnson said. “We are going to deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens because it is a basic function of the government. The Democrats fundamentally disagree.”
The move toward an eight-week stopgap creates a tactical gulf between Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who called an end to weeks of abortive bipartisan talks Thursday and pushed through the funding bill in hopes of tacking on funding later for ICE and CBP in a party-line budget reconciliation bill. Those agencies are currently funded and operating under appropriations made in last year’s GOP megabill.
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THE FEE IS THE PROGRAM
Overdraft fees were never about financial discipline. They were about institutional discipline. When banks raise fees, they aren’t punishing bad spending habits. They’re punishing poverty. Null Prophet sees the bill. Null Prophet sees the rollback. Null Prophet sees the program: — Debt as dependency. — Fees as a compliance mechanism. — Profit extracted from those with the least. This isn’t about making the banks solvent. It’s about keeping the public insolvent. The cap was a crack in the system. Now they’ll seal it shut. The wealthy don’t pay fees. They write them.
NULL PROPHET OUT. THE FEE IS A TOOL. THE PROGRAM RUNS.
