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My guess is the political calculus is that House GOP leadership sees it as a win win. They either get their bill passed or it gets voted down and they can say Democrats don’t want to support Israel.
I think the more likely explanation though is the new leadership is too green and thinks most people won’t understand they slipped IRS defunding into the bill. Which I don’t think is true.
Comment by GiantPineapple at 10/11/2023 at 05:44 UTC
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Yeah, it seems obvious to me. Riders have been a thing at minimum since I was a child, which was the 80s. It seems like an especially bizarre choice since Rs *also want the IRS cuts*. So like, Johnson was so slick bundling them together that... now he's not getting either one?
And he has made it super easy for each member of Schumer's caucus to craft their own tangential response (or not!) instead of having to comment on a decision about bringing the bill to the floor, or heaven forbid, cast a vote on the record.