US house rejects spending bill after lawmaker pay raise was taken out
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keeping true to his campaign promises, Trump and musk worked with conservatives to whittle down the spending Bill and remove wasteful spending. Part of that wasteful spending included a pay raise for the very people voting on the bill.
naturally, all Democrats and 38 Republicans voted against it.
Look at the 38 Republicans who voted no. They are some of our very best. Members of the Freedom Caucus.
They voted no because Trump is asking to raise the debt ceiling by 4 trillion and adding it into this bill. This bill should be stopped.
Trump and Musk are wrong on increasing our debt ceiling.
There is no debt ceiling at all right now, so wouldn't any ceiling be better? All a ceiling really does is cause congress another fake battle to avoid shutting down anyway, before they raise it again.
Besides, isn't it going to take a few years to close the deficit and get the alternative means of raising revenue going?
Really the only way to stop the deficit is entitlements... The rest is mostly noise.
Given that all of our money is fake and gay and the value of the dollar is only holding up due to the perception that our military might has yet to completely collapse...does anything meaningfully change if we hold the debt ceiling in place?
I agree we shouldn't spend money we don't have, but I can't help but wonder if this isn't all just political theatre and none of it really matters.
I saw a couple of posts from Chip Roy saying that the second bill was still no good, but no specifics other than that it doesn't cut enough spending.
Ok, fair enough. Maybe vote against that on principle, fine.
But where was he yesterday when the previous bill was even worse?
we're putting in a pay CUT, and every time you reject it, the cut doubles.
Honestly our legislators could be enslaved while they work in the Congresses and Parliaments and I would still say they are grossly over paid.
Let's just shut down the govt
honestly, nothing of value will be lost
Literally found that out when they did it with Obama. All it did was close the wildlife refuges and prevented the ATF from shooting dogs.