House GOP Leadership Adopts Matt Gaetz Strategy to Pass Single-Subject Spending Bills, Killing Borde

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House GOP Leadership Adopts Matt Gaetz Strategy to Pass Single-Subject Spending Bills, Killing Border Reforms

Sean Moran 22 Sep 2023

House Republicans have adopted Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) strategy to pass single-subject appropriations bills, which removes the inclusion of House Republican border funding.

“The House has really abandoned the McCarthy CR strategy today and has embraced the Matt Gaetz strategy of single subject spending bills,” Gaetz said on a podcast Thursday.

Gaetz, who has long had a contentious relationship with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), has appeared to convince leadership to adopt his strategy for passing spending bills.

On Thursday, five House Republicans voted down the rule to advance the Republican Defense spending bill, a rare event for leadership to lose a rule vote.

The Thursday rule failed after Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against it.

After the failed rule vote, Gaetz visited McCarthy and pitched the speaker to bring a single subject appropriations bill to the floor one at a time. Since the passage of the debt ceiling compromise struck by McCarthy and President Joe Biden, House Republicans have aimed to pass all 12 appropriations bills to pressure Biden and congressional Democrats on a longer-term spending bill.

Gaetz said they should bring the Defense, Homeland Security, State-Foreign Operations, and Agriculture-FDA bills to the floor. Now, the Rules Committee will take up the four bills to consider next week when the House returns.

Republicans tried to pass their own short-term CR that would have included border security measures included in the House-passed Secure the Border Act. If House Republicans had passed the CR with border security funding then they could forced the Senate Democrat majority into a debate about the growing migrant crisis unfolding across the nation.

Now, the heavy burden of figuring out how to pass 11 appropriations bills in the next nine days, before the government shuts down on September 30, falls on McCarthy and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/22/conservative-spending-strategy-kills-off-border-bill/

[Bigun]

 

[massadvj]

You just don't want to watch sausage being made, especially since we will all be forced to eat the end product in the form of inflation, or worse.

[Bigun]

You just don't want to watch sausage being made, especially since we will all be forced to eat the end product in the form of inflation, or worse.

Sausage making has never been pretty, but the resulting product is often very good!

[bilo]

House Republicans have adopted Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) strategy to pass single-subject appropriations bills, which removes the inclusion of House Republican border funding.

“The House has really abandoned the McCarthy CR strategy today and has embraced the Matt Gaetz strategy of single subject spending bills,” Gaetz said on a podcast Thursday.

This makes my day!

I realize the individual bills will have things in them I don't like, but it will be less than could be hid in an omnibus spending bill and this process returns us to a system where our elected representative actually has a say in some of what is being passed.

Today is a win for our Patriots over the Establishment Loyalists.

[bilo]

Sausage making has never been pretty, but the resulting product is often very good!

 

Today is a good day!

[massadvj]

Sausage making has never been pretty, but the resulting product is often very good!

Very true for sausage, not so true about law-making. Congress best work happens when they are not in session, because nothing is often better than what comes out.

[Bigun]

Very true for sausage, not so true about law-making. Congress best work happens when they are not in session, because nothing is often better than what comes out.

But that hasn't always been the case. Just happened before our time.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

House GOP Leadership Adopts Matt Gaetz Strategy to Pass Single-Subject Spending Bills, Killing Border Reforms

Sean Moran 22 Sep 2023

House Republicans have adopted Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) strategy to pass single-subject appropriations bills, which removes the inclusion of House Republican border funding.

“The House has really abandoned the McCarthy CR strategy today and has embraced the Matt Gaetz strategy of single subject spending bills,” Gaetz said on a podcast Thursday.

Gaetz, who has long had a contentious relationship with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), has appeared to convince leadership to adopt his strategy for passing spending bills.

On Thursday, five House Republicans voted down the rule to advance the Republican Defense spending bill, a rare event for leadership to lose a rule vote.

The Thursday rule failed after Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against it.

After the failed rule vote, Gaetz visited McCarthy and pitched the speaker to bring a single subject appropriations bill to the floor one at a time. Since the passage of the debt ceiling compromise struck by McCarthy and President Joe Biden, House Republicans have aimed to pass all 12 appropriations bills to pressure Biden and congressional Democrats on a longer-term spending bill.

Gaetz said they should bring the Defense, Homeland Security, State-Foreign Operations, and Agriculture-FDA bills to the floor. Now, the Rules Committee will take up the four bills to consider next week when the House returns.

McCarthy has never been against passing 12 separate appropriations bills.  The problem all along is that the individual Republican members have been unable to agree on the amount of each bill necessary to hit the target they set.  The bills haven't passed because Republican members won't vote for them.

Republicans tried to pass their own short-term CR that would have included border security measures included in the House-passed Secure the Border Act. If House Republicans had passed the CR with border security funding then they could forced the Senate Democrat majority into a debate about the growing migrant crisis unfolding across the nation.

Unfortunately, that is correct.

Now, the heavy burden of figuring out how to pass 11 appropriations bills in the next nine days, before the government shuts down on September 30, falls on McCarthy and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/22/conservative-spending-strategy-kills-off-border-bill/

McCarthy and Emmer can't "figure out" how to pass those bills unless other Republicans agree to vote for them, which has been the problem all along.

[Free Vulcan]

Yay to small victories.