The White House has made its first veto threat of the new Congress, targeting a House Republican bill that would rescind funding allotted to the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law last summer.
See, not everybody knuckles under to the Krazy Kaucus. Bravo, Mr. President.
Of course the donors must be properly thanked.
This would be a good time to start a meditation practice. The next two years will deliver a lot of this caliber legislation.
This is what I needed to read today. This bill won’t pass the Senate, so Pres. Biden won’t need his veto pen but the House is about to find out about divided government. Sucks to be them.
ditto
The House GOP membership is so fundamentally crazy, my hope is that over the next two years they’ll both discredit themselves and motivate large voter turnout to keep them out of office in the next election.
“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa?” It’s not enough to call that “a baseless conspiracy theory” or say it’s “untethered from the reality of the bill.” The real offense the GOP is committing here isn’t being wrong on the facts, although they are totally wrong on the facts. It’s much, much worse. They are maliciously and in bad faith cultivating fear, hatred, and violence among their voting base. It’s just not an exaggeration to say they are fomenting murder. If someone bursts through your door with a loaded AR-15 (Chuck Grassley is a drooling idiot, there is no such thing as an AK-15, but I digress), of course you’re going to consider shooting back. When MTG says “Democrats want Republicans dead and they have already started the killings,” of course you’re going to want to start shooting back.
The GOP is lacing its eliminationist rhetoric with lies. That’s pretty much standard with eliminationist rhetoric. Our media is focusing on the lies, and simply not hearing, much less reporting on, the eliminationist rhetoric.
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You’re right, its unnecessary since this bill will never make it through the Senate to Biden’s desk.
However, it’s a statement by President Biden - he won’t be cowed by the MAGA Madness gripping House Republicans.
It also helps keep potentially wavering Senate Democrats (think Manchin) onboard, by making the President’s position 100% clear.
Republicans of all stripes, from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-FL) to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), have latched on to a baseless conspiracy theory centered on the IRS funding. They claim that the money will be used to hire 87,000 armed IRS agents to kick down the doors and threaten the lives of middle class Americans.
But what about the Death Panels? Have they forgotten about the Death Panels already???
targeting a House Republican bill that would rescind funding allotted to the IRS
Not that I’m a big fan of IRS audits, but, regrettably, people cheat. Especially people who lust for money.
But… pulling funding already allocated is no way to run a business. It’s very disruptive beyond the purpose for which such radical, immediate change is intended.
Republicans don’t know what they’re doing
Grass loves sucking at the taxpayer’s teat, that’s all you need you know. He wakes up from his nearly permanent state of slumber, then resumes resting.
Agree, he drew his line and explained the rationale. And I am glad he did.
Does Squeaker McCarthy care that nothing he does will work in the other chamber or in the president’s office? No. He’s desperately trying to save face.
Wakes up, mumbles his way through incitement to murder, and then goes back to snoring. Nice work, if you like that sort of thing, I guess. Dreadful people.
He’s as old as one of my senators, Dianne Feinstein, there are calls for her to step down, yet there are none for him to do the same. I understand. They’re probably all asleep in Iowa because they’ve had to listen to him occasionally over the years.
President Biden should have used the veto after the bill had been passed the House and was sent for his signature. No point telegraphing your hand. Let Congress do its job.
Conservatives should pass the Income Tax Reform Act of 2016 and 2017. Every American (human) taxpayer making less than $1 million in gross income should have their taxes reduced to $750. This is exactly what Skanky and Escort paid for those two years. Wanky got $750K for services to her sugar daddy.
What is the news about Joe and so-called Classified Documents?
I don’t think McCarthy thinks about face at all, even when it’s in TFG’s butt crack. McCarthy wants the salary bump, the bigger lifelong pension, and the K-Street job once he resigns from Congress in frustration and disgrace.
