TSA funding update: House GOP blocks DHS funding proposal, extending shutdown that's caused airport delays

Got a few million of those, unfortunately

You spelled "traitor" wrong.

For those that get their news from right wing media think this is Dems causing the issue

Mike Johnson makes me long for the days of Kevin McCarthy. What a human colostomy bag.

What makes this even more aggravating is that Trump has the ability to fund TSA by himself. The BBB set aside an additional $10 billion in "discretionary" spending. Trump could sign an EO and fun TSA right now.

He wants to replace TSA with his ICE goons.

John Boehner to Paul Ryan to Kevin McCarthy to Mike Johnson has been an ever increasing spiral into madness.

Under Trump it's shutdown after shutdown after shutdown. Setting shutdown records. Dealmaker in chief.

What a surprise. I can't wait to see this weirdo dethroned in the midterms.

Seems that all this guy is good for is putting the house into recess. Imagine getting paid to just not do your job.

The pepperoni dog fart of a human being that is Mike Johnson would never surprise me unless he actually freakin did something.

He owns it now

He plans to crash the economy and destabilize the country. It's that simple. Conditions will continue to deteriorate until we reach a breaking point and then Peter Thiel and the other open fascists attempt to seize absolute power. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump tries to dissolve Congress on the pretext of national security.

I’ll take, Republican Leadership for $400 Alex

Why would Biden do this????

Doing this in the middle of spring break time too

Don't forget judicial

We HaVe A mAnDaTe Ok and this is what you do with it?

Cries at $5/gal in San Francisco

Judicial branch too! We had the opportunity to have a liberal court for like the second time in our country’s 250 year history but not enough people were able to vote for a woman in 2016…

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Great?!

Them seeming not to care is exactly what worries me! They were overly confident like this right before the last presidential election and now I wonder if it's because they have a sure way to cheat. That or they don't plan on having midterms or are just going to ignore the results, Either way I'm really starting to think they're up to something.

It's easy really. They blame it on Dems. Republican voters have melded their entire identities into MAGA that they don't question when Republicans blame Democrats. They just immediately accept the narrative because it gives them pleasure to accept it. Their identities have been validated.

It's because they lie and cheat.

it's like they want to lose. Imagine starting a war, backing the war, crashing the economy, and still talking as if the 36% approval rating President is going to help them in November. I think deep down some Republicans actually want to lose. I believe many MAGAs are sick of taking orders from Trump, but like Rubio, to cowardly to speak up. The ones who do speak up, do so very quietly, and while walking on eggshells.

They’re really banking on the voter suppression bill and posting ice to harass certain voters

Log into Facebook if you’ve still got it. There’s people who handle sharp objects for a living that still think this is the democrats doing it.  I doubt I can do it over the next five years but somehow I’m going to have to severely lower my expectations for humanity

They want to f*** everything up. Then just break shit, blame the Democrats, and then create legislation that "addresses" a problem that never existed and day "look how good we are!" It's like slapping a gold star on your own pile of shit.

If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear, it is that the American system of government, with its vaunted Constitution and checks and balances, is deeply, deeply flawed. All it took was one person who doesn’t give a shit, and now it may be too late.

Agreed but it’s not like the representatives don’t have multiple ways to get around this. They could force a discharge petition, they have done it a few times. Hell they could vote in a new speaker. They just don’t want to. Johnson is a spineless turd, but let’s put the blame where it belongs.

This is a framing issue and it's one to be mindful of in terms of it being deliberate. (Not from you, but from the creatures who manage the part machinery) The Speaker does not inherently have unchecked power to do this nor anything else. Congress selects their speaker. Republicans have the ability to check the speaker by replacing him. They choose not to. Mike Johnson's power is unchecked in the same sense that my cat would have unchecked power to consume a pound of ground beef if I put it on the floor and elected to sit there watching what happens without stopping her. And at this moment in history, with a majority that is so thin it nearly doesn't exist, the coalition of Republicans that would be needed to put an end to this is such an absurdly low bar to clear that the optics are better for them if a person like Mike Johnson can absorb the spotlight and appear to shoulder all the blame.

A ton of the US government is designed to work on "good faith". That's also why there is never any consequences.

In European Parliamentary systems, failing to pass a spending bill would cause an immediate new round of elections. They don't have 'government shutdowns' like we do - they just stop having a government.

Yea, but he tripped and fell few times …. /s

He didn't know he could- Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) told him last night that he could.

It's astounding that Hunter's p**** continues to f*** us

He tried to…it failed mightily

the Grindr files. Or worse. Nothing else can explain his absolute devotion.

It always was.

Doesn't stop Republicans from blaming the Democrats though

Oh. Where are those Epstein files ?

No. They don't want an actual hot civil war. They'll block it just to complain the Democrats are unreasonable and not hand them the win. Republicans want to prevent the government from working so they can sell their voters a "fix".

But somehow, their voters will do exactly that.

Trump's lips tried to float the idea that Democrats are to blame for the war.

It's not like they preform a needed function ...

The poor babies.

It joins the very long list of many things that Trump has said which turned out not to be true.

I'm guessing the people actually writing the checks told him he can't do that

Emails went out, supposedly they’re getting backpay on March 30. No mention of anything beyond that so they’re guaranteed to miss another check before the Senate comes back and everybody else working within DHS that isn’t harmed hasn’t been paid a penny so they’re going to miss at least four total paychecks, probably more. Workers at FEMA, civilians with the Coast Guard, CISA all going unpaid.

They’ve owned it from the beginning.

Because House Republicans are much more loyal to Trump than Senate Republicans are.

Please don’t have a freak out at the airport.