When put under pressure …
The Congress CAN get their shit together….
The place usually works ONLY when there IS pressure…
I wonder what the RightWingNuts will do though?
Oh?
Republicans DO get to cut the IRS buget by 25% this year and cuts Covid funding going ahead….
The agreement, announced jointly by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), will almost surely face vehement opposition from far-right House Republicans, who had hoped to force steep budget cuts….
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The agreement mostly adheres to a deal reached by Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last spring to suspend the nation’s debt limit in exchange for limiting discretionary spending to $1.59 trillion in 2024, with 1 percent growth in 2025. Because that represented a cut when taking inflation into account, Biden and McCarthy agreed to spend another $69 billion each year in a side deal, with some of that offset by repurposing existing funds….
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So far, Johnson has tried to appease both camps — with mixed results. For right-wingers, the speaker has drawn a hard line on emergency assistance for Israel and Ukraine, spurning Biden’s $106 billion spending request that covered aid for both war-stricken nations, humanitarian assistance and border security resources. Johnson paired $14 billion for Israel with the same amount of cuts to the IRS, a move that nonpartisan analysts say would actually cost taxpayers more money by hampering the agency’s ability to collect revenue. That measure passed the House and failed in the Democratic-controlled Senate….
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Border security and immigration could pose a political hurdle for the new spending deal. Dozens of House Republicans last week argued that Johnson should attach demands for new immigration restrictions to any government funding deal, not just to the legislation for aid to Ukraine and Israel where Biden is already seeking border funds….