House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about.
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@SeanCasten Didn't Kathleen Sebelius get in trouble once due moving funds within HHS when the congressionally approved appropriation had the line items amount for different programs?
@PizzaDemon Yes and that would be illegal. In this case, it is a $10B line item in the OBBB that was worded to afford Presidential discretion. So it's not infinite discretion across all accounts - just from that line item.
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House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about. But this one is just such a perfect distillation of the incompetence in the GOP, failure of Trump as a leader and weakness of Mike Johnson. Let's roll the video tape:
@SeanCasten Just a complete and utter clusterfck.
As an aside, thank you for being active on Mastodon and keeping us informed.
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Postscript from the clownshow that is the GOP as I was typing up this summary.

@SeanCasten "The Senate went dark..." just like Mike Johnson's soul.
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House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about. But this one is just such a perfect distillation of the incompetence in the GOP, failure of Trump as a leader and weakness of Mike Johnson. Let's roll the video tape:
Lil Mikey is a total piece of shit, and you can tell him I said so.
Jesus is very, very angry at that little turd. You can tell him that too.
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