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They haven’t avoided it, just postponed it for a little while.
By 45 days from now, the cult leader may actually be in prison if he keeps doing things like handling firearms while under federal indictment.
Just handling it isn’t a problem. Trying to BUY one and entering false data on the ATF form would be. Accepting a gun from someone who did a straw purchase would also be a problem.
There is no amount of shenanigans that will land him in jail before trial, and maybe even after. Dude was charged with trying to overthrow the government, and he got released on bail.
Kicking the can down the road so we can go through this again in November is not a last-minute deal, it’s an emergency measure.
Wow this post is fast. I’m just literally watching the news now
Just passed the Senate. New date to watch is Nov. 17th.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But in a dramatic turnaround on Saturday afternoon, House Republicans scrambled to pass a temporary funding measure that would keep the government open for 45 more days and make no major concessions on spending levels.
However, with a majority of lawmakers keen to avert a shutdown, one of the faction’s key demands - no more US funding for Ukraine’s defence against its invasion by Russia - is reflected in the bill.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been extremely reluctant to rely on Democratic votes to pass the House’s bill until the last minute, given this would anger these hard-line conservative members of his party.
They - and Republicans who also support more Ukraine money - will keep pressing for more funding, but officials in President Joe Biden’s administration have warned that, in the short term, there could be disruption to the Ukrainian war effort.
As House Democrats complained that they were unable to read Republicans’ latest offer before voting on it, one - Jamaal Bowman of New York - appeared to have pulled a fire alarm in one building to buy more time.
His counterpart, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, argued his party had bailed out Republicans following “a complete and total surrender to right-wing extremists who throughout the year have tried to hijack the Congress”.
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Wasn’t this the deal that they refused to let anyone read before voting on it?
If so, it might be even worse than the shutdown would have been for all we know about the fascist party 🤬
Haven’t they done it for the past 5 years or so? I think I heard it the other day. It’s always postponing with no end in sight.
