• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    so basically they now have 45 days to pass a CR or the Republicans will shut down the government again and 20 of those days will be spent picking a new speaker…

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      20 days to pick a new speaker

      24 days to argue about the bill within their own party

      1 day for the speaker to hastily save the party from owning another shutdown

      7 days for that speaker to be kicked out

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        1 year ago

        I feel like there’s a “On the first day of Christmas legislation, the GOP gave to me…” carol, ripe for the singing, here!