HAS EVERYONE IN THE GOP CONGRESS LOST THEIR MINDS?

Day 30 of America being held hostage by politics. Even though some Senate Republicans want to fund SNAP in a stand-alone bill, speaker Johnson dismissed Democrats’ attempts to fund federal workers and SNAP, calling them a waste of time. Yeah, keeping a roof over your families and feeding them is so frivolous. But Democrats, ignoring his dereliction, introduced a measure to fund both. Will the ‘let them eat cake’ faction go on record voting no to protecting 42M constituents from starving? Meanwhile the cost of healthcare insurance premiums is soaring because of the expiration of the premium tax credits. Medical debt is central to throwing families into bankruptcy. But the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (ha) published a rule to make sure states cannot stop companies from including such debt on credit reports. Directed by Russell Vought. So, just as the government stops/denies food assistance and as healthcare costs skyrocket, the administration permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores. Even if state laws say they can’t. Also, with Trump safely out of the country beguiled by shiny objects, ICE is becoming more lawless. ICE agents are still getting their paychecks, including overtime, thanks to the extra $75B from July’s budget reconciliation bill. Regardless, ICE is claiming the shutdown means it no longer has any legal obligation to permit congressional oversight visits to its detention facilities. The barbarians are at the gate.Sweet gig on taxpayer dime. We keep killing boats at sea. But now subordinates in the Defense Dept. have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements concerning expanding operations in Latin America. Administration officials briefed Republican lawmakers about the US military strikes but excluded Democrats, which is complete BS. But I guess that will protect the Democratic Congress for any future trials in The Hague. Did they tell you why NDAs are needed? But we’re in good hands. The prez boasted on Air Force One that he got a perfect score on a recent “IQ test” [aka ‘dementia test’]that required him to identify “a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe.” I expect everyone cheered. What a dumpster fire y’all are participating in.