Summary

The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.

Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.

Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.

Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.

  • ours@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    His idea of “helping the working class” consists of tariffs that don’t work the way he says they do and a very likely catastrophic mass deportation program.

    And people did vote for those somehow.

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      2 days ago

      Some of it yes, but the leopards face eating feast wouldn’t exist if they actually got what they thought they were getting. They’re just idiots.