After three days of government shutdown by the Democrats, a “near extinction event” (just kidding) nobody actually noticed, nor was affected by it, the GOP scored a major victory against the left, as they managed to gather sufficient DEM votes on Monday to pass a short-term spending bill that will fund the Federal Government until February 8. […] More
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the Senate should scrap a procedural rule requiring 60-votes to proceed on legislation. Mulvaney told Tapper that the current rules encourage partisan brinksmanship, which would be quickly alleviated if the Senate could adopt a budget by a simple majority vote. “We’ve been critical of […] More
Senator Tom Cotton had an epic response for Lindsey Graham after the South Carolina senator “insulted” him. When Graham was asked if he would vote for a short-term budget proposal, he began comparing Cotton to Iowa Congressman Steve King, who takes a hard-line against illegal immigration. “The Tom Cotton approach has no viability here,” Graham […] More
Many of the country’s top media outfits blamed the Democratic Party for allowing the government to shut down instead of bridging a budget impasse with Republicans in the Senate. “U.S. Shutdown Starts as Senate Democrats Block GOP Funding Plan” a Bloomberg headline blared early Saturday morning, referring to the Senate’s inability to agree on a […] More
The budget debate exploded in Congress Thursday. Both GOP and Democrat leaders were fighting to avoid a government shutdown, but that isn’t stopping one lawmaker in particular from making absurd comments about reaching across the aisle to make a deal. House Speaker Paul Ryan had to calm fears and confusion over President Trump’s tweets Thursday […] More
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