So to unpack what's happening in the House: -the House Rules Committee reported out a rule last night with Democratic votes in a majority Republican House, shattering House precedent. -the House rule orchestrates separate votes on aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and another giant bill which includes the TikTok bill and REPO Act. Border security is not included. No amendments are allowed on the Israel title, limited amendments granted on the rest. -if each title passes, they will all be fused into one package without a final vote (known as a MIRV). That package is then added as a House amendment to the Senate foreign aid bill (the two are effectively the same); in parliamentary speak, the House concurs in the Senate amendment with a House amendment. -the concurrence is set up in order to send the House package over to the Senate as a "message," which allows the Dem majority in the Senate to expedite its passage (the first motion to proceed is privileged and approved at simple majority instead of requiring cloture to be invoked at 60 votes). TL;DR: Dems get what they want in the House, Dems get what they want in the Senate, all of which is awkward because it's orchestrated by the....Republican Speaker.
As a reminder, only 22 Senate Republicans --less than half of the Senate GOP conference-- supported the UKR-Israel-Taiwan foreign aid bill when it passed the Senate in February.
@rachelbovard @esaagar Imagine somebody critiquing individual vote rather than an omnibus
@rachelbovard Johnson is a Democrat in Republican wool...
@rachelbovard @BlaisetheTruth If you understand this bill and the money it allocates to foreign aid will never reach its destination because this is an operation to expose RINO members, and the corruption they’re party to, then you can sit back and eat popcorn and cheer for your favorite actors.
@rachelbovard The tiktok bill will be used to censor all internet content including X
@rachelbovard So at this point, yeah, Johnson has to go. Whatever happened to him in the last two months, it's made him unfit to lead the GOP.
@rachelbovard Uniparty strikes again. Why even bother voting or expressing our opinions when the GOP leadership just ignores what 80% of their voters want, and do the exact opposite, with no shame or explanation? The game is rigged and the fix is in. And we aren't. They kicked us to the curb.
@rachelbovard #vacatejohnsonnow Congress is totally corrupt