House Passes Budget Bill… If Shutdown Comes, Blame Schumer (VIDEO)
Judge a politician by his actions, not by his rhetoric
Dems have done a LOT of talking about how concerned they are about federal employees… let’s see if they walk the walk.
Every last Democrat opposed the CR passed by the House today. While not ideal, it is structured in such a way that it funds border security and allows the massive cuts DOGE has been leading the way on to keep coming.
In other words, as ridiculously high as the budget still is, we will NOT locked in to spending every cent it authorizes. We have some wiggle room to keep cutting the Kudzu spending that has been choking out the actual legitimate functions of government.
Not everything we might have asked for, true. But mistakes made during Trump 1.0 have taught us the dangers inherent in letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Here is Speaker Johnson shortly before the vote, telling us he has the votes (he did) and that the bill was going to pass with or without any help from the Democrats (It passed without.)
He calls out the lies that Dems have been telling about Social Security. It takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass this bill, which means that success or failure of this bill will once again be a decision made by a certain Chuck U. Schumer. Mike has something to say about that, too:
Today, @HouseGOP did our job and voted to keep the government funded while 212 House Democrats voted for a shutdown.
Now, Senate Democrats have to decide if they want to do the right thing or if they’ll join House Democrats and shut down the government. pic.twitter.com/DwnlQxZVxr
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 12, 2025
The President is pleased with this vote…
As for what’s in it? Here’s a thumbnail sketch summary:
One thing makes THIS go-round so different than when Schumer forced a shutdown in 2018 rather than pass the Paul Ryan budget that fully funded Trump’s border wall — the media chokehold on information transmission has been broken.