Aaron Rupar: House Republican demands to avoid a shutdown -- restricting access to abortion medication -- restrict VA from flagging veterans deemed mentally incompetent in gun background checks -- no new funding for food assistance for the poor, women, and infants

House Republican demands to avoid a shutdown -- restricting access to abortion medication -- restrict VA from flagging veterans deemed mentally incompetent in gun background checks -- no new funding for food assistance for the poor, women, and infants

Republican Demands and Divisions Drive Impasse Toward a Shutdownwww.nytimes.com The spending stalemate that has brought the government to the brink of a shutdown is being fueled by G.O.P. demands to add conservative spending mandates opposed by President Biden and Democrats.

You mean flagging mentally incompetent vets for gun background checks is a dealbreaker for House GOP? They'd shut down govt over this??

As someone from Maine, this makes me incredibly angry.

Gotta keep that 22-a-day streak going…

That’s the Republican Party I rejected 40 years ago

I left in 2006. Never again

Horrible people, the lot of them. Their party needs to be banished to the dustbin of history.

-"The problem of mass shootings isn't a guns issue, it's a mental-health issue!" So will you support identifying people with mental-health problems who should not have access to firearms? -"Hahaha fuck you"

These are not serious people.

sounds like nonstarters all around

In the real world extortion is a crime, in the GOP it’s a virtue. Fuck them.

Is that no new ADDITIONAL funding for food assistance of cutting what's already budgeted?

It's a modest increase they're against.

Thank you.

Cool, it's once again "We Get The Horrible Shit We Want Or Your Country Burns" season

And an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model air rifle!

They'll shoot their eyes out!

Was going to say that😂

They will burn this country down for their bullshit

See. I think they believe it’s saving ‘their’ America …. if 1800 something.

All because of hate.

I don’t know. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Sigmund would have enough material for a few new books. How the lemming effect and fascism overlap?

Truth

Yep

So Moscow Mike is threatening a government shutdown that the GOP will own wholesale in a general election year? OK.

What abortion medication access do they want to restrict? That may be the true dealbreaker right there. No way Dems will alienate women in this way IMO.

It’s the abortion pill they want to restrict. And I hope you’re right about Dems. The last time the GOP shut down the government it was good for Dems in the next election so let’s hope they don’t cave!

What does any of this have to do with border security? Didn't he repeatedly emphasize this was the top priority?

If course it has zero to do with border security with the possible exception that they want to stop brown people from coming here and make sure white people have more babies to stave off our population decline. It is a stretch …

I think Dems have to be smart and pragmatic in this but heck, so do Republicans. This isn't a good faith offer.

Republicans haven’t operated in good faith for decades.

They are racists and want to force white American women to have more children than they want to one way or another. That's the thread line.

If this isn't the Dem response then wtf are we even doing

If they insist on this, then I guess the government shuts down, because these are absolutely ridiculous demands. Trying to hold the country hostage with these appalling antics.

Republicans refuse to govern. They don’t care about the country or the wellbeing of the American people.

How can the GOP look voters in the eye and tell them with a straight face that these demands are worth shutting down the government for?

I wish Biden would just stonewall them at this point. It's clear that they have no intention of living up to the terms of any deals that they reach anyway, so what's the point of engaging?

I cannot stand the times we live in. This is criminally weaponized politics which has and is hurting the country.

These seem like the demands of someone whose knee-jerk reaction is to knock an ice cream cone out of a child's hand and kick the kid's puppy.

I thought that the gop liked clean bills. My mistake.

you forgot the 4th demand: -- kick puppies

Also Flaming Hot Cheetos in the House vending machines

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Pro life

House Republicans demand that Dems go fully evil-villain, to avoid a govt shutdown.

Jesus

📌

Being held hostage by this pack of dipshits who haven’t done a damn thing for anyone other than their benefactors…

Fascists!!

Same GOP.

Calling their bluff has never hurt the dems before and they should do it again now

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