The U.S. House of Representatives returns this week for an expected political brawl over spending cuts and impeachment that could paralyze the Republican-controlled chamber, as Congress struggles to avoid a government shutdown.

The House and the Democratic-controlled Senate are due to be in session for about 12 days before funding expires on Sept. 30, leaving little time to agree on a package of 12 appropriations bills that can pass each chamber and win Democratic President Joe Biden’s signature.

The main bone of contention among House Republicans is a demand by roughly three-dozen members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus to cut spending for fiscal 2024 to $1.47 trillion – about $120 billion less than Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed in May.

The White House and Senate leaders – including top Republican Mitch McConnell – have rejected that demand.

That dispute and other hardline demands, including opposition to Ukraine aid and calls for an impeachment inquiry against Biden, could imperil efforts to pass a short-term stopgap, known as a continuing resolution or “CR,” which would keep federal agencies afloat while lawmakers debate full-scale appropriations.

  • chaogomu
    26•1 year ago

    They want to conserve the power of white male supremacy and the outsized power of wealth on society.

    That’s the entire platform. They want select white men to have all the wealth and power, with descending social hierarchies that are fixed in stone.

    So yes, everything that was wrong with the past, everything that is still holding us back. Literally so.

    This thread talks about how 15-20% of the economic growth of the last 60 years was driven by being slightly less shitty to women and black people.

    • Hot SaucermanEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      Businesses already know that diversity and acceptance mean more profits. They don’t even care about the value of human life.

      They just figured out that:

      • Not discriminating means they have a wider group of people to sell their products to, thus most profit
      • Not discriminating means they have a wider group of people to hire, thus better, more competent hires
      • Not discriminating means fewer people have a negative outlook of their company and are less likely to boycott their products

      None of that has anything to do with accepting/understanding that all human life has intrinsic value. It’s just about profits.

      Yet they would dump those profits down the drain just so they could discriminate a little longer, fucking idiots.

      • Flying Squid
        3•1 year ago

        Yep. Just like how the U.S. military is spending a huge amount of money investing on doing what they can to protect themselves from climate change. It’s not because they’re woke liberals, it’s because they see the writing on the wall.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      15-20% of the economic growth of the last 60 years was driven by being sightly less shitty to women and black people

      But what’s even the point in having money if I can still get cancelled for calling my wife the n-word in a restaurant full of obviously-criminal Mexicans?