Not that I agree with his Nay vote, but here is some context from a reply:
It was because voting yes automatically passed hb492 which is a bunch of changes to the BBB that was already passed thru the house. Im still going thru it to see what all they're changing, but it was a red herring & he literally posted about it, if you actually paid attention to what he says....
Hidden inside of a Resolution (https://t.co/k1oB65c58E) we will vote on today to bring rescissions to the floor is an order to pass H.Res 492 (https://t.co/1HBqLF5F1s) WITHOUT A VOTE. H.Res 492 changes the text of BBB after it already passed the House. Sneaky!
All of the congress goblins should have to sit through a verbal reading of the full text of the bill to be allowed to vote on it, many faggots clearly never even open the things.
Sure but it gets the ball rolling, it's better to get SOME progress than hold out demanding the big pay off.
Look at RFK Jr for example, he started slow behind the scenes when he first got in and now? He's gutting them completely because the small wins build up.
Sure. But this logic is also the reason that “we have to vote republican and take back the house, if we don’t have that we have no hope of getting legislation passed, right?”
The fat in these bills is often worse than the benefits of what they’re “claiming” to pass
Not that I agree with his Nay vote, but here is some context from a reply:
Links to https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1932848458718761227:
Text of H.Res 492 is at https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres492/BILLS-119hres492ih.pdf and looks like it strikes out some words from BBB. I don't know enough to have an opinion on whether his concern is legitimate or not.
We need 1 item bills, with a page limit of like 10 pages.
If i cant read a bill during one sit down bathroom break then it shouldn't be a bill.
All of the congress goblins should have to sit through a verbal reading of the full text of the bill to be allowed to vote on it, many faggots clearly never even open the things.
The libertarians are falling for the classic mistake of the perfect being enemy of the good, and it's losing them credibility.
You HAVE to push forward, even a little to stack up your small wins into a massive one. It's how the left and establishment got so far.
$9.4 B in cuts is literally nothing.
It’s not even a drop in the bucket.
In massies defense, he is looking at what is more important, that dollar value, or the changes to res492.
If you want to reduce the deficit. You do so by end to entitlement programs en mass and mass deportations
Sure but it gets the ball rolling, it's better to get SOME progress than hold out demanding the big pay off.
Look at RFK Jr for example, he started slow behind the scenes when he first got in and now? He's gutting them completely because the small wins build up.
Sure. But this logic is also the reason that “we have to vote republican and take back the house, if we don’t have that we have no hope of getting legislation passed, right?”
The fat in these bills is often worse than the benefits of what they’re “claiming” to pass
It's why politics is shit. Stand on principle and get nothing done, or compromise and be labeled a sellout.
$9,400,000,000.00?
surely you mean $6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.000000
Probably is afraid of getting Seniors riled up. The media ran the whole Social Security will be gone schtick.
So much for muh principles