House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline.

They pulled a transportation-housing bill late Tuesday as some coastal Republicans opposed cuts to Amtrak. And they yanked a financial services and general government measure on Thursday morning that included divisive anti-abortion language.

It’s a step backward for Johnson, R-La., who had hoped to show progress on appropriations bills championed by his party’s conservative wing in order to secure their votes to pass a short-term bill that would keep the government open beyond the Nov. 17 deadline.

  • @Sanctus
    link
    English
    111 months ago

    They were also taller, strong, and known to sexuslly assault their captives. But nowadays its more of an expression than a literal.

    • @kromem
      link
      English
      011 months ago

      Lol. You’re going to need a source for that last claim there.

      And they were roughly the same size as homo sapiens at the time and shorter than modern humans: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25757530

      • @Sanctus
        link
        English
        111 months ago

        I’m not getting into a debate about neanderthals because I used an expression referencing their public preception, dude.

        • @kromem
          link
          English
          011 months ago

          Aka “I was spreading misinformation, got corrected, and rather than learning and moving on doubled down on even more wildly misinformed claims I can’t back up.”

          • @Sanctus
            link
            English
            111 months ago

            Yes… spreading misinformation… about Neanderthals… lmfao bruh