House Speaker Confirms Legislative Branch Is Now Just A Prop

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House Speaker Confirms Legislative Branch Is Now Just A Prop

The book is now closed on the republican effort to take poor people to extend tax loss to the rich, while claiming that this is not what they do. In a vote on the parties 218-214, the Republicans of the House sent the bill to the president’s office. This will intestine Medicaid, will add billions of billions to the national debt, really singing dollar amounts of taxpayers in the mass expulsion effort of President Trump and reduces clean energy incentives while carrying out Trump tax reductions for the rich permanent.

The victory is Trump’s after all.

A handful of Republicans in the Senate and the Chamber spent most of the last month of performative belly in public on the way in which they did not want to adopt the legislation which is now heading for the White House. For what it is worth, some Senate Republicans such as Senator Lisa Murkowski (R -AK) have finally obtained changes they favored – such as revising derogations for SNAP reductions to include 10 states with the highest payment error rates and increase the expenses of the rural hospital fund – put in the final version of the bill before voting.

The republicans of the Chamber cannot claim such dignity (and Murkowski, who, after having voted for the bill, did not play what he was heading).

The room ended up adopting the version of the Senate of the Reconciliation Package – which included more steep cups in Medicaid and clean energy incentives than the conference of the typically extremely written chamber written – without modification of the text of the bill. We have heard murmurs that Trump, who worked as a majority whip this week, had convinced some of the Républicains in the Chamber being suspicious of adding billions of billions to the national debt with the promise of an amorphous executive action to resolve their concerns later. It is equally with a promise that Trump made on several occasions by negotiating with the Republicans at the Congress: do what I say now and I will reward you with deductions without law later. Basically.

The president of the House, Mike Johnson (R-La), confirmed this constitutionally behind strategy during the fight to journalists after the vote Thursday afternoon.

“I do not think they demanded a lot of specific commitments or concessions or something like that,” Johnson told journalists. But “a large part of the discussions focused on orders that will be to come with regard to new legislation, and how can we be involved as a house to codify this.”

The Congress Republicans have been on a fast track to lose their authority in the executive power for months now. The capitulation is complete.

Restruction: EPA Employees Edition

Nearly 140 staff members of the Environmental Protection Agency were put on leave after having signed a letter criticizing the actions of the ministry under the Trump administration and the management of the administrator Lee Zeldin, the Washington Post was the first to report. You can read the letter that nearly 300 EPA staff have signed here.

EPA workers have said that the changes implemented by the Trump administration “undermines the EPA mission to protect human health and the environment”. About 170 staff members signed their real name to the letter and Thursday, many of them received communications saying that they had been put on leave. Per Wapo:

Questioned Thursday, an EPA official who spoke under the guise of anonymity to discuss personnel issues confirmed that 144 employees had received emails as part of the letter and that at least 139 had been placed on leave – and now faced inquiries – because they had signed by using their official employment titles. The letter said the official of EPA, distorted the agency and its work.

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Two people familiar with the case said that some EPA employees had been physically escorted outside their workplace on Thursday after obtaining a leave. The EPA did not answer a question asking how many staff members have been escorted outside.

Jeffries enters history books

The chief of the Hakeem Jeffries minority (D-NY) rose to the house floor and started his magic minute at 4:53 a.m. Thursday. A huge eight hours and 44 minutes later, at 1:37 p.m. he finished, putting an end to his speech by breaking the record for the long speech on the story of the house.

But Jeffries’ speech was more than an attempt to break a record. It was one of the methods that the Democrats used to try to slow down the inevitable vote of the floor that would come later in the day when the Républicains de la Chambre approved the megabill which would make the tax reductions of President Trump permanent, reduced the social security net, would add trillions to national debt, would reduce the incentives to clean energy and administration.

– Emine Yücel