Congressional Spending Package Moves Forward
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Okay, so Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, told colleagues that congressional negotiators have reached a top line spending figure to avert a federal government shutdown. Yeah, this is supposed to happen on January 19th for some of the agencies, but it had been February 2nd for others. Basically, it’s a deal that was reached between
The White House, basically same deal that Kevin McCarthy had, and limits discretionary spending of $1.66 trillion. Secures $16 billion in additional spending cuts versus the McCarthy deal and is $30 billion less than what Senate Democrats wanted. Johnson said this represents the most favorable budget agreement Republicans have achieved.
in over a decade. Now there’s some more cuts to the IRS. Again, defense is always a big winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. $886.3 billion for defense spending, $772.7 billion for domestic discretionary. Oh, they finally rescinded.
6.1 billion in coronavirus emergency spending authority. You know that there’s still more lying around out there bouncing around. They should be recalling the money that they sent to the states. 20 billion in cuts from the IRS. That went from 80 down to 60. Again, Chuck Schumer likes it. Democrats, Keem Jeffries likes it. House conservatives, the Freedom Caucus.
No bueno, not thrilled with this. And again, I wanna remind everybody, this has nothing, nothing to do with additional spending for Ukraine, Israel and the Far East. Let’s be honest here, and again, a lot of Freedom Caucus Republicans, and I know I’m gonna get a lot of people, you know, they’re gonna hold the line, hold the line. Listen.
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There have been points in time, not too long ago, when you had the House, you had the Senate, and you had the presidency, and you didn’t do Jack when it came to spending. You got an election year right now, and we know how the sky’s gonna fall, world’s gonna end type scenarios that are presented by the media when it comes to government shutdowns and agencies being shut down.
and you’re going to be all over the news. There’s going to be arsenic in your water, and your babies are going to be dying because of baby formula gone bad because this government agency shut down. You know it as well as I know it, okay? Listen, I’ve been pushing against any sort of extracurricular military spending, Ukraine, that stuff, that’s got to go away. But I’m going to be honest, I don’t know what else Mike Johnson can get.
Again, I did the Freedom Caucus guys. I mean, they could probably yell and scream about this within the House. And again, I don’t like it either. I don’t like it either. I just as much as, you know, right? I don’t like having a root canal done, but sometimes you gotta have a root canal done. God forbid, but I’m just saying, what are you gonna do? We, the Democrats are gonna end up coming on board and voting for it. So you don’t need the Freedom Caucus. They can vote against it and put out their objections,
But you see, Republicans, you need to start winning. You need to start winning because I know we were told it was going to be all sorts of winning going on, you know, from now until attorney. I wonder who said that. There hasn’t been much winning going on. Hasn’t been much winning at all. Red waves, red waves my ass. Again, you’ve got you got people dropping like fire.
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A couple more that are going to be leaving. One guy is going to be leaving because he’s going to be president of what? Youngstown State or something like that. So you’re losing votes here. Okay. Maybe if you had that wave, maybe if you had won the Senate, maybe you might be able to do something. But quite frankly, if you had that power, I don’t even trust you’d do anything with it in the first place. Again, once bit, twice shy. You Republicans can’t be trusted on controlling spending either.
So again, yell and scream, you know, throw a hissy fit all you want, okay? Been there, done that. I don’t trust donkeys, I don’t trust Republicans. You guys just spend and spend and spend and put it on my kids’ credit card. Watc
