House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday would not commit to blocking any additional funding for the war in Iran, saying the president has so far failed to justify the war but “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
The New York Democrat was asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether House Democrats would move to block a funding request if the White House were to ask for more money for the military.
Jeffries said the administration has so far “failed to make its case … for this war of choice in the Middle East,” and unless President Donald Trump provides a “compelling rationale,” he’s “going to have a difficult case to make on Capitol Hill.”
Congress last year approved a $900 billion defense spending bill as part of routine annual budget appropriations, and the president signed the bill into law in December. But since the U.S. began its military operation in Iran, lawmakers have been considering the need to pass additional defense spending to bolster the U.S. military.
Why do democrats just suck so much? None of them have any balls and it is impossible not to see them as also bought and paid for.
The same reason they have the government they do.
People refuse to participate meaningfully in elections. In this case, primaries.
What exists, reflects the participation exactly. Republicans have the strength they do, because their people vote and they do what they say they’re going to do, even if it’s bad. The rest of the country, the same thing. The Democrats are spineless and their people along with the neutrals who are selfish anyway, won’t participate.
We need to use the primaries to flush all incumbents, dem and GOP alike. And we need to get a LOT more active in local and state politics.
So much of this mess exists because people ran for state and federal house and other positions without opposition. The states prop up the federal government and empower it, and not enough people understand this and still think of the USA as “one big country” and not a federal union of 50 individual countries.
Same donors on both sides, it’s not complicated.