(Yesterday at 5:08 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(Yesterday at 2:16 pm)Paraselene Wrote: I doubt the average repub voter pays close enough attention to any of the finer details that hurt them in the long run. Or else they wouldn't be repubs. They're similar to theists in that way, believing the word from the political pulpit while considering anything else to be "fake news".
I don't agree in this case. But you do you.
More to this story:
Quote:Pressure is rising on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call the House back in session for a vote on ensuring military pay during the shutdown.
President Trump said a standalone military pay bill “probably will happen” in remarks to reporters Wednesday, while bipartisan legislation allowing service members to be paid amid the shutdown is gaining momentum in the House.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, signed on to the Pay Our Troops Act this week.
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“We can have policy and political fights in Congress, but we simply can’t ask service members to put themselves in harm’s way without paying them,” Calvert said in a statement to The Hill on Thursday. “It should be a red line for anyone who cares about our national security and our troops.”
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/55479...-pay-vote/
But if Johnson calls the House back into session, he must seat the Democrat Arizona rep who will be the push-vote forcing a House vote about the molester list. So they can either vote to not pay troops in order to avoid revealing the list and subsequent investigations, or they can troop the party line about "we love our troops" and do the big reveal with who knows how many names and donors are on it.
Or Johnson can violate the Constitution and refuse to seat a duly-elected representative, and take Trump off the hook for sandbagging American democracy. No matter what he chooses, he loses.
It's nice that it's a Republican pushing this.
