Well shit.
I'm a federal employee, and this pissed me off to a level I did not think was possible.
Or those working on State Department programs for women.
It's not obvious to me that this is Trump rather than just the goofballs that came on the Tea Party wave having nothing to restrain them anymore. H. Morgan Griffith was elected in 2011.
Devil's advocacy: in my opinion, the best thing a Republican house, senate and presidency can do is nothing and deciding to amend a bill with "and also let's fire Jerry from HUD" is pretty much a guarantee of that. This isn't The Repubicans as a united force of evil, this is random straggly-ass Tea Party Shitheads deciding that they are now The Authoritah and as far as I can tell, the only plausible effect other than gridlock is a minor uptick in new Democratic-leaning lobbyists.The use of the rule would not be simple; a majority of the House and the Senate would still have to approve any such amendment. At the same time, opponents and supporters agree that the work of 2.1 million civil servants, designed to be insulated from politics, is now vulnerable to the whims of elected officials.
Except Republicans seem to be going along with it. :/This isn't The Repubicans as a united force of evil, this is random straggly-ass Tea Party Shitheads deciding that they are now The Authoritah and as far as I can tell, the only plausible effect other than gridlock is a minor uptick in new Democratic-leaning lobbyists.
Rep. Barbara Comstock, the only Republican member of Congress from Northern Virginia, voted for an amendment sponsored by Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rob Bishop (R-Utah) to strip the rule from the package. The rule “diminishes the roles of the authorizing committees in the House, and will make it more difficult to pass appropriations bills in the new Congress,” Comstock’s spokesman, Jeff Marschner, said in a statement. However, when the rules package, including the Holman measure, came to the floor Tuesday, she voted for it, as did all but three Republicans. All the Democrats voted no. And they likely will. I'm not saying this is a good thing. But they dont' have a filibuster-proof majority and the time has come to pick battles. The Democrats lose nothing by fighting this. The Republicans lose unity. Which they're going to be doing a lot of.Several House Republicans tried to block revival of the Holman Rule in a closed-door meeting Monday evening.
It's been what? five days since that ethics office mess? I don't think Trump gives them time to get on the same page. Now he's sending his wall through appropriations, after running almost exclusively on "making Mexico pay for it" meanwhile on Twitter he's arguing that the press are liars because "make Mexico pay us back for it" is obviously virtually the same. He ain't even President yet.
They run the risk of being painted as obstructionists and sore losers. The spin machines on both sides seem to be firing on all 8 cylinders at this point. Public discourse is probably gonna get pretty ugly.The Democrats lose nothing by fighting this.
wow yay can't wait to come back to the states and be a civil servant again. hooray. not like civil servants weren't already underpaid.
The rule “diminishes the roles of the authorizing committees in the House, and will make it more difficult to pass appropriations bills in the new Congress,” Comstock’s spokesman, Jeff Marschner, said in a statement. However, when the rules package, including the Holman measure, came to the floor Tuesday, she voted for it, as did all but three Republicans. All the Democrats voted no. This is why we are all going to lose some very nice things.Rep. Barbara Comstock, the only Republican member of Congress from Northern Virginia, voted for an amendment sponsored by Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rob Bishop (R-Utah) to strip the rule from the package.