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for your support. Where to begin? I guess we'll start
with the history of the Continuing Resolution. I'm just kidding.
We're not gonna We're not gonna start there. We're not
gonna do that. We will start here about two days ago, right,
two days ago? Story? Oh, I don't know where this was.
That's weird. I usually include when I print these out
where they came from. This might be well, sorry, well,
I yeah, Emily Brooks and Michael Schnell. This might be
the Washington Examiner, but I'm not sure it could be
the Washington Times. I forget. House Republicans are fuming at
Speaker Mike Johnson's handling of an end of year measure
to extend government funding until March, saying it is more
like a sprawling omnibus which they have whore, than a
simple temporary funding measure. So again, an omnibus bill is
one that has like a whole bunch of crap thrown
into it, unrelated items policy spending, just a bunch of
stuff tossed in. I don't know why they call it omnibus,
Like this is a word that sort of came into
the lexicon, I want to say, about ten years ago
when they started doing these ridiculous monstrosities because they couldn't
do their freaking jobs to a budget, so they just
keep doing these omnibus spending bills and these continuing resolutions,
and then the Continuing Resolution or the CR became the omnibus,
and the omnibus became the CR because they're like technically different, right,
And omnibus is any kind of a bill that has
a bunch of stuff tossed in, and the continuing resolution
is just, you know, be it resolved, Like we're just
going to pass a resolution that continues the funding that
is existing right now. The problem is is that they
just can't help themselves. They have to add some stuff
to the CR, and so then the CR starts getting
lauded up with a whole bunch of stuff, and then
it turns into an omnibus. And that gave us the Cromnibus,
a melding of these two abominations, the Continuing Resolution and
the omnibus. Now it's a cromnibus. And now today we
have the Kramnibus. So now you're injecting a tactical term.
They're going to cram it down our throats. They're going
to ram it through the Congress. So now it is
a cromnibus that's being rammed through and crammed down. And
so now it's a cramnibus. I don't know. I don't
know where we go from here, people, I really don't.
So I mean on the language thing, Like, I don't
know how many different names we can give this thing,
because it's all the same. It's just a different permutation
of the same garbage. Right, So the Continuing Resolution, which
will keep government funding at a at current levels through
March fourteenth, is also set to include See there's the
giveaway right there, right when it says that the Continuing
Resolution will also include additional money. Well, then that's no
longer simply a continuing resolution, right because a CR would
just continue what we've got. When you start adding more stuff,
now it becomes something else, the cramnibus. Right, So it's
going to include one hundred point four billion dollars in
disaster aid for people affected by hurricanes, including Helene, so
western North Carolina is directly impacted by whatever happens with
this thing. And then there's another ten billion dollars in
economic assistance for farmers. Marjorie Taylor Green, congresswoman from Georgia Republicans,
said it's not a CR, which is a continuation of
the budget. It's turning into an omnibus. And she's exactly correct.
So there are two. And by the way, they have
a deadline to pass this continuing resolution because the budget ends.
The funding ends tomorrow, so they've got till like midnight tomorrow,
so I guess that would be end of Friday. I
think so Saturday morning. And if this seems familiar, it's
because it is familiar. They do this every Christmas. I
remember being out of town. I want to say, I
was down in Atlanta at my brother's house when they
did the Obamacare crap, when they rammed that thing through
with the reconciliation process, why do they do this? Why
do they do this? Well, Thomas Massey, congressman from Kentucky,
he explained this. I believe this was in September. Let
me see, I got time. This was him speaking in
a congressional hearing.
Speaker 2: I also predicted this would fall right before Christmas, and
I believe this does fall on December twentieth. Now, why
have we picked December twentieth, Because it's the same reason
we always have December twentieth. Everybody up here is human.
There are no ais or robots in Congress. And when
you get to December twentieth, you're five days from Christmas,
You're four days from Christmas Eve, and you desperately want
to be there with your family. So this is when
the leadership here has the maximum influence. And again I'm
talking to the Democrats and the Republicans because you've seen
it on the Democrats side of the aisle. They love
to pick the week before Christmas for this showdown because
you can smell the jet fuel fumes over at DCA.
It smells like Christmas that you're going to get to
go home in open presence. I've been in HC five
when literally the speaker of the House, not the speaker
we have now walks in and says, if you vote
for this, you can go home and unwrap presents with
your kids. And if you don't vote for this, you're
going to spend Christmas here with Nancy Pelosi. And then
the chance starts.
Speaker 1: Vote vote, vote vote. How screwed up is that? How
screwed up is that you want to go home and
open presence with your grand babies, you know, your first
grand kid, your first or maybe you're a young lawmaker
and you've got very young kids. You want to be
there Christmas Eve, Christmas morning. You want to be there
when the kids wake up and come downstairs. And they
use that in order to get you to vote for
an omnibus cromnibus, cramnibus, cr crap sandwich. And people do it,
and they don't. They don't read the bill, they haven't
read it. It doesn't matter, and the leadership knows it.
Speaker 2: Literally, people get enthusiastic to vote for something that they
haven't read. So let me predict what we're not going
to do on December twentieth, before I take a guess
at what we're going to do. What we're not going
to do. We're not going to do twelve separate bills.
We are not going to spend this time. We've got
a few months between now and December twentieth. We could
go back to working on appropriations bills.
Speaker 1: What he's talking about, the twelve bills. These are the
twelve appropriation bills that Congress is supposed to be doing
for these different sectors of the government of the budget.
And they haven't done it. I don't think in my
entire adult life, like I don't think I've ever actually
seen this process unfold what was supposed to be quote
regular order, very irregular.
Speaker 2: We are not going to do this this sucker. Whatever
happens on December twentieth, whether it's another cr to punt,
to kick the can down the road for three more months,
or whether it's an omnibus that funds all of government
with one bill, it's going to be written.
Speaker 1: Behind closed doors. It was.
Speaker 2: Every lobbyist in this town is going to try to
attach their little thing to this bill.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 2: This train is leaving the station. It did on December twentieth.
It's the only one that we know is going to pass.
They call it up here, must pass legislation, So everybody's
going to try and get their little thing on this bill,
whatever it is, on December twentieth, whether it's another continuing
Resolution or another omnibus. It's so it's not even really
a prediction that I'm making. I'm just telling you what
has happened for twelve years, regardless of whether Democrats are
in charge or Republicans are in charge. There may be
a little twist. We may do half of a CR,
or it'll be a whole CR, and half of it
will end in February and half of it'll end in April,
and they'll convince you that got something more clever this
year than they had last year. But it's going to
be the same old thing, warmed over, written behind closed doors,
rolled out here. We're not going to have time to
read this thing. That's also predictable, and we're going to
be told vote for this and you can go home
and open presence with your kids. Don't vote for it,
and you're going to be stuck here, and there will
be people. It pulls at heart strings. We are humans,
and that's why I think it's really disingenuous or despicable
really to pick four days before Christmas Eve to put
this bill on the floor. The bill I'm talking about. Obviously,
nobody here knows what it is yet and we're not
going to have time to read it. But people are
going to be inclined to vote for it because they
just want to be with their family.
Speaker 1: Right on Christmas. Yeah, it's corrupt, is what it is.
It's corrupt two issues, content of the bill and the process.
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process regarding the content of the cramnibus quote total dumpster
fire quote, it's garbage quote, crap sandwich. Sorry, I know
it's lunch time. Chip Roy said, we get this negotiated
crap and we're forced to eat the crap sandwich. Why
because freaking Christmas is right around the corner. It's the
same dang thing every year. Legislate by crisis, legislate by calendar,
not legislate because it's the right thing to do. Speaker
Johnson received an ear full of criticism during a closed
door House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, where he briefed
members on the emerging details of the government funding package.
So this gets to the process. A lot of Republicans
not happy with the process because, as Donald Bryson, the
CEO of the John Locke Foundation here in North Carolina
points out on Twitter, the House GOP promised that the
budget would be returned to regular order more than two
years ago. Yet here we are at the end of
another continuing resolution because nobody in Washington is willing to
do the hard work of appropriations committees and subcommittees, right,
they are unwilling to work. Yet they put into the
CR a pay raise for themselves. Now, look, you've probably
heard people say that what I'm about to say, which
I don't have a problem with them giving themselves a
pay raise. They haven't gotten a pay raise in like
fifteen years. They still make one hundred and seventy four
thousand dollars. Actually, I think I'm going to run for
Congress now, No, I'm kidding, But they make so they
get one hundred and seventy five k basically. But the
optics of stuffing a pay raise without any debate or
any kind of conversation, any kind of transparency. It's just
put into the Krami bus and then everybody's told to
vote on it and they don't have time to read it. Which,
by the way, that's going to change, you know why AI.
This will probably be the last kind of monstrosity that
we have seen where AI will not be able to
filter it like that and tell us everything that's in it.
This is like things are changing and you can lead, follow,
or get out of the way. Right regarding the process,
the gripes are not just coming from hardline conservatives. By
the way, you never hear hard line leftists. You never
hear hard line liberals or progressives. I don't even think
the media realizes there's such a thing as a hard
line progressive. They at best you get, you know, the
leader of the Progressive Caucus or a member of the
Progressive Caucus. Sometimes you'll get left leaning. You never get
hard left because I don't even think they realize there
is such a thing. But anyway, Representative Mike Lawler no
relation to the wrestler. I don't well maybe I don't know.
Actually he could be, but he's a Republican from New York.
He represents a district that Joe Biden won. So these
are your squishy rhino you know, Northeastern Republican, swing district,
moderate whatever you want to call them. Republicans. They are
most susceptible to the pressure that might come from the
left because they are in a district that the President,
Joe Biden, that a Democrat carried, but he won the district.
He stood up during the GOP conference meeting and told
Mike Johnson that the government funding process has not been
member driven. Lawler also aired Grievances which it is that
time of year with festivs and all Democrats play. He's
about Democrats who played a key role in the funding process,
telling Johnson at one point, I'm not a bleeping Democrat.
How come they got all of this input and your
own membership did not? Fair question? See process and content.
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That's Pete at the Petecallnersshow dot com. So the article
I've been reading actually is from the Hill. I went
and double checked it's from the Hill, and this was
two days ago. All right, When Speaker Johnson rolled this
thing out fifteen hundred pages, started talking to his members
in the conference meeting, and they they went ballistic. The
Republicans are supermit and at one point, when Johnson told
the members that the Continuing Resolution the CR was a
collaborative effort that had committee involvement, Representative Jason Smith, the
chair of the Ways and Means Committee, responded, quote, not true.
That's never That's never a good sign when you're up
in front of the crowd. We had committees that worked
on this. Not true. Oh hang it. If your conference
doesn't trust you, you're done. You are done. Smith declined
to answer questions from reporters as he left the meeting.
Speaker Johnson, for his part, sought to sell the Emerging
Package to his conference during the meeting, claiming to members
that Chuck Schumer negotiated in bad faith and the Democrats
did not secure any wins at all in the bill,
and that is false. That is false. Democrats did secure
some big wins in the bill, most notably the GECK,
the GEC, the Global Engagement Commission or something. This is
the UH. This is the infrastructure that was built up
eight years ago where the government could use that infrastructure
to censor people on social media. That's due to sunset,
and Democrats attempted to build that into the State Department
for an additional year, so they changed it from an
eight year sunset to a nine year sunset so it
could live on for one more year, and to house
that infrastructure inside the State Department, which would make it
more difficult to dismantle under a doze program of cuts.
That was a big win. They also sought to immunize
all of the members of the J six Select Committee
from subpoena. That's a big win for them. Fifteen hundred pages.
You're going to tell me there's no wins for Democrats
in there after you negotiated with them, and now they're
all squawking about a deal is a deal? We are
in an agreement. Why would maybe fighting so hard for
this then? Please so once again a lie. That's not
good for the speaker next Washington Examiner from this again Tuesday.
This is just by the way, This is just for
the background to tell you how we got to where
we got to and what unfolded yesterday basically on Twitter,
which is kind of nuts. I thought everybody was going
to be over on blue sky for this so weird.
Congressional leaders have finalized a deal to extend government spending
into the new year, teeing up a vote later this week,
just days before funding for federal agencies is scheduled to lapse.
The first question I had when I saw this story was,
if ever there is a time to shut down the government,
why wouldn't it be right now? You just won the presidency,
you just won the Senate, You've retained the House. You've
got Elon Muskin, Vivic Ramaswami coming in with their doze,
the Department not a department, uh, Department of Government Efficiency
coming in to start laying waste to some of the
bloat that is in the federal government budgets to get
us back onto a fiscally solvent footing. You have all
of these Republicans running around getting their pictures taken with
Musk and Ramaswami like, Oh, I'm down for doge. I
want to be a part of this, And everyone's running
around like they're part of the solution here, and then
you give them this yeah there, Yeah, is the juice
worth the squeeze for this? Right now? After we just
saw what we saw, the massive shifts in all these
different voting demographics to Trump. Elon Musk out there campaigning
with Trump promising this stuff. They got all this momentum,
and this is what you do. One last deal for
the lobbyists in the swamp why. House leaders unveiled the
legislation Tuesday evening, which would extend government the current funding
levels through March fourteenth, and include one hundred and ten
billion dollars supplemental package for the disaster relief and farmer
economic assistance. The legislation comes after weeks of negotiations between
House and Senate lawmakers, and it includes a number of
policy provisions intended to thwart Chinese influence. Oh so, I
guess Joe Biden is out effective immediately, then no Chinese influence,
oh man, And also to respond to recent concerns stemming
from drones. The continuing resid portion of the funding legislation
will keep current spending levels for government agencies at the
same level while being paired with a supplemental spending bill.
Major provisions tucked inside of the disaster relief include twenty
nine billion to replenish the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund, twenty
one billion in disaster relief for farmers, and eight billion
towards the Federal Highway and Roads Disaster Fund. The supplemental
bill also includes ten billion for economic assistance to farmers
and a one year extension of the Farm Bill, which
is set to expire at the end of this year.
Some lawmakers said the provisions are not as much as
they were hoping for, but it is a start again.
This is from the Washington Examiner. Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman
Patty Murray told reporters, quote, we should be done, but
unfortunately we've been delayed by an eleventh hour demand from
the speaker. It's not clear what that demand was, but
the fifteen hundred and forty seven page legislation is filled
with provisions unrelated to government funding, such as language to
reform how pharmacy benefit managers operate, provisions that would allow
Washington to redevelop the site of the shuttered Robert F.
Kennedy Memorial Stadium that would possibly woo the Washington Redskins
AKA Commanders away from their current location in Maryland. The
bill also includes a reauthorization of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program,
intended to address and counter the potential threats from drones.
That provision came after thousands of drone sightings. Oh wait,
I think I just saw one out in the hallway there.
Oh no, no, sorry, that was That was Brent Winnable.
The unrelated funding has ignited a firestorm among House Republicans
who are criticizing Speaker Johnson for what they call an
omnibus spending bill in disguise. Why not do a stand
alone CR and a separate stand alone relief package disaster
relief package? Why wouldn't both of those pass? Right? Run
the bills, Run a clean CR saying we're gonna spend
what we're spending now. We're just going to continue it
for another three months. We have one hundred and ten
billion dollars in disaster relief. Run that bill, put it
up for a vote. Done again, Like, what better time
do you have to fight this fight? The election is
already over. But oh my gosh, there's gonna be a
shutdown and we're gonna get blamed for it. Do you
think people care at this point? Like, seriously, I know
Republicans have been snake bitten by this. They get, you know,
pilloried in the media, But so did Donald Trump? Like,
were they calling you Hitler for shutting down the government
because they were calling that guy Hitler and he won.
So I don't know if the media holds the sway
any longer to move this needle, especially a month after
the election. You got two more years, guys. This is
why I said, I'm not sure that Trump is going
to be able to get everything done that he has promised,
because he's got to have a Congress that does this
stuff with him. This is the concern. We're not going
to know for sure until tomorrow. But because like right now,
everything's still in flux. I believe there was actually a
meeting started started earlier this hour among the Republicans in
the House, so I'm not sure what will come of that,
but they're scrambling because the government's going to shut down
no after tomorrow. And I did get a mess said
your hang on, let me read some messages here. This
is from Junior, who says, I'm not sure if the
public is aware, but most of the time a furloughed
government worker is paid eventually when these shutdowns occur. I'm
not sure about the long one with Trump's last term,
but as a retired federal employee, I witnessed and experienced
about five shutdowns. Every time I watched as non essential
employees were sent home quote without pay. When the shutdown
budget was resolved, those same non essential employees were returned
to work and then received pay for the time they
were off. So the bottom line was they got a
paid vacation. The system is so crazy. This is from
tim omnibus bill and Mike Johnson that Mike Johnson Folds
got cheap suit to Democrats on most any subject. I
think they have him blackmailed, like pictures with him in
bed with an underage girl or maybe an underage boy
for that matter. Well, maybe a fire mantle. You don't know,
it could be anything we've heard about the parties, if
I'm not mistaken, says Brett. It was either you or
Vince who talked about this months ago when they passed
the previous Continuing Resolution to continue to fund the government.
Johnson set it up specifically so there would have to
be a forced vote just days before Christmas, and Dennis says,
at this point, should in Congress call this bill the
omnibusted bill. Denny says, I'm okay with Congress giving themselves
a raise, as long as there were also provisions, revoking
their own special health care program, and the elimination of
insider training on the stock market. Any chance that that
would fly. Keep up the great content. Let's continue to
expose all of this government misbehavior that Congress hopes nobody
will notice. Right, So I saw somebody else suggest, Hey,
you know what I would say. Take how about congressional
pay of a million dollars a year if you balance
a budget? All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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