House GOP Cancels Budget Vote.

[wtb]

He ain't got the votes. One thing about Pelosi, she never brought anything to the floor unless she knew she had the votes. Little Mickey of the Small Johnson is a weak leader who cannot control his caucus.

We'll see how it goes today. With Trump pitching in, Johnson's been better at pulling together votes lately than anyone expected he would be with such a small majority.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Pelosi is indeed a giant of Congressional history and does lead a democrat caucus of votes.

However, it is very conservative members of the GOP that has been holding up the vote.

Johnson says he thinks he has the votes now.

So we will have another 5T in debt on the credit card thanks to the supposed financially conservative GOP.

 

[wtb]

Johnson says he thinks he has the votes now.

Good. This is really nothing more than a necessary step to begin writing the bill itself. We'll see what's actually in it once they roll it out. This next phase will be when negotiation and votes will really matter.

 

[pknopp]

As I've noted before there are a small number of principled Republicans.

Agree or disagree, I at least have respect for those who vote their principles.

 

[pknopp]

As I've noted before there are a small number of principled Republicans.

Agree or disagree, I at least have respect for those who vote their principles.

Well so much for those principles.

MSN

Let the debt over run.

 

[Delldude]

So much for this thread......

 

[ThisIsMe]

House Republican leaders canceled a vote on the Senate’s budget resolution Wednesday night, as Speaker Mike Johnson came to terms with what had been clear for many hours: Too many Republicans would vote in opposition and the measure was bound to fail.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/house-gop-cancels-budget-vote-00283121

The outcome is a brutal blow for House GOP leaders and President Donald Trump, who have spent days trying to wrangle the votes for the fiscal blueprint. Adoption of identical budget resolutions in both the House and Senate is an essential step to allowing committees to start drafting and passing a party-line package of tax cuts, military spending, energy policy and border security investments.

The evening roll call on the budget was delayed as House hard-liners back-channeled with a group of Senate Republicans to sketch out deeper spending cuts. Then a parade of more than a dozen fiscal hawks streamed off the House floor to meet with Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise while the vote on another measure was held open. But those eleventh-hour talks were not enough.

Johnson just plain did not have votes, and he knew it. The economy is a is in free fall and Europe dropping U.S. stocks and bonds as fast as they can. The tariffs are a disaster. 47 is killing the economy and Republicans know it.

That's one big difference Johnson and Nancy Pelosi, she unlike Johnson knew how to control her caucuas.

Its easy to control a caucus when they all just willingly fall in line. They dont ever buck their own party. Nancy says "do it" and they all say "yes maam!"

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

We are talking the patriotic freedom caucus.

 

[Delldude]

We are talking the patriotic freedom caucus.

So they don't seem to fall in line like Nancy's sheep.

That's not how it's supposed to work.