Now lets talk policy. Trump’s budgets involved an excess of public sector borrowing. This business McConnell’s agreed to (pre-empting the incoming House Republican caucus) incorporates a tsunami of public sector borrowing.

Either both are bad, or neither is bad, politically speaking.

While we may disagree on specific line items in the budget (and nobody in congress or elsewhere has read more than a few of them, for decades now, it’s way too much, in itself a far bigger problem than whether it gets approved or not), the principle remains.

I’ll be more than rough. But in the the end, it will work because nothing else has.

The USA had a good run. Time to stop resurrecting the eternal corruption that sustains this horror show. Just stop.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/21/omnibus-stalls-title-42-amendment-causes-major-problems-short-term-funding-bill-discussed/

Negotiations surrounding the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package have stalled in the Senate as Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) Title 42 amendment has put a wrench in the process, leading some senators to reportedly discuss a short-term funding bill instead.

Title 42 is an immigration policy that makes it easier for the federal government to send border crossers back to their native countries. Initially implemented by former President Donald Trump at the start of the pandemic, a federal judge recently ordered President Joe Biden’s administration to phase out the program by December 21.

However, following an emergency application filed by a coalition of 19 Republican-led states, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts recently halted that lower court’s order to end Title 42, leaving the program’s fate in the federal judiciary’s hands.

Sen. Lee’s Title 42 amendment ties funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Executive Secretary to the Biden administration keeping Title 42 in place, Politico reported.

Despite Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer’s hopes to bring a vote before the Senate floor on the omnibus bill on Wednesday, Lee’s Title 42 amendment is “causing big problems” in the Senate,
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Senate Democrats want a vote on Lee’s Title 42 amendment to reach the 60-vote threshold before it can be included in the omnibus spending package. However, Senate Republicans want the vote to pass with a simple 51 majority vote.

With several Senate Democrats in support of Title 42, Lee’s amendment could make it into the bill at the lower threshold.

One Senate Democrat aide reportedly called Lee’s amendment a “poison pill” that would “kill the bill in the House,” if adopted.
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Translation: House Dems won’t accept an omnibus that extends Title 42 authority.
— Andrew Desiderio
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With Lee’s Title 42 amendment derailing negotiations at the last minute, there is reportedly “growing talk” on the Hill about the possibility of passing a short-term continuing resolution funding bill to fund the government until February, according to Hill reporter Alex Bolton.
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If Congress passes a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government until February, it would give Republicans a huge victory in the government funding negotiations as they will regain control of the House majority at the start of the next Congress in January.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the Republican nominee for the next Congress’s speaker of the House, strongly opposed the lame-duck Congress passing a long-term spending package.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-mitch-mcconnell-actually-thinks-about-the-omnibus-bill/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

Mollie Hemingway’s latest piece at the Federalist lambasts Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, saying he’s “the single biggest obstacle to GOP success.” To illustrate her point, Hemingway employs a clip of McConnell, cut by strategist Greg Price, to suggest the minority leader is more interested in the welfare of Ukrainians than Americans:

McConnell: “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That’s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.” pic.twitter.com/NPmzWRzoz1

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 20, 2022

He’s also happy to spend $1.7 trillion on left-wing policies:

McConnell: “I’m pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, Democratic House, and Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this Omnibus spending bill essentially all of our priorities.” pic.twitter.com/RuVcsvNX0B

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 20, 2022

The clips are deceptive, and the article that relies on them is foolish.

Here’s the full statement (bold to indicate important missing chunks [I’ve bolded the parts quoted by Price instead, and added some paragraphing-AF]):

Well, we’re moving toward completing the business for the year, and I think in a highly productive way — from the point of view of the vast majority of Senate Republicans. This omnibus bill — it’ll be on the floor — provides a real dollar increase for the Defense baseline and a real dollar cut for the non-Defense baseline — if you exclude veterans.

That is absolutely critical and breaking the pattern we’ve had in the past when we’ve ended up in one of these situations where every time Republicans tried to get an increase in defense, we would in effect have to pay a ransom to the Democrats on the domestic side, wholly aside from the needs of the country.

So let’s step back and say, “What are the real needs of the country right now?” In the defense part of our expenditures, making sure the Defense Department can deal with the major threats coming from Russia and China — providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians. That’s the number one priority for the United States right now — according to most Republicans. That’s sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment. So admittedly, I’m pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill, essentially all of our priorities.

McConnell is lauding his party’s success in securing real-dollar adjustments that benefit Defense while not surrendering to Dems on domestic spending. Given that his party is effectively in the minority in both houses of Congress, Republicans should get what wins they can. Some GOP House members suggest a continuing resolution (a short-term deal) that would push the budget process into the next Congress. Developing a budget with a minuscule advantage in the House and a Democrat-controlled Senate is a recipe for holding the bag come a government shutdown. Many Republicans have failed upward, but can they do it collectively? I think not.

Mitch is making the best of a bad deal; Hemingway is making the worst of a bad clip.

“Facts are difficult things.” J Adams.

Another Trump-endorsed nonclown?

Thanks.

Ted Budd in NC will dispute that.

Therein lies part of the problem. The House controls the Federal Government’s purse strings. That’s leverage and the failure to use it is criminal negligence.

House Repubicans should be offering specific narrowly focused bills. Vote down all proposed bills that lump together unrelated areas. Fund the dem’s social programs in seperate bills, which will block the dems propagandizing in those areas. Severely cut back the Deep State funding. Cut the military budget. Cut the funding of the Education dept. etc, etc.

When the dems scream, respond calmly with common sense and if they block the seperate, greatly reduced FBI bill… so what. So too with the CIA, DOJ, etc. bills.

Take the heat and stay the course.