And they snuck in this part, too

[Brenda]

According to Heather Cox Richardson:

It includes funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, and operations for the legislative branch, or Congress. Tucked within that last appropriation is a measure that allows the eight Republican senators whose phone logs were seized during former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sue the government for up to $500,000 apiece.

Gee thanks Dems. Now my taxes have to pay for the domestic terrorists lawsuits.

[in2herbs]

1. I had read about this before but thanks for posting because it needs to kept in public view. When I read

about this my first reaction was that the Ds never read the legislation that they were committing Americans to. Was that because the legislation regarding the shutdown was already agreed to meaning that the Ds caved before Sunday night?

[lapucelle]

2. Indeed, "they" snuck in full funding for the VA and increased funding for SNAP through the end of the fiscal year

on September 30, 2026.

Those are two Democratic bills that Democrats have been trying to get to the Senate floor for a vote since June. Last night, those two Democratic bills passed the Senate. This week they will pass the House, and Trump will be forced to sign them into law.

And when the CR expires again in January, Johnson and Trump will no longer have the threat of hungry kids and abandoned veterans to use as a bargaining chip in negotiations.

[yellow dahlia]

3. The fact that this was allowed by the Dems who went along,

is as insidious or more so than their having capitulated.

[Volaris]

12. Isnt that technically an ex post facto law, which is specifically prohibited?

[yellow dahlia]

14. Good question.

We shall see.

[2naSalit]

4. It will be interesting...

To see how the House deals with this.

[Brenda]

6. Hah, you say interesting ...

like it means they might debate it. Bet it stays in.

[2naSalit]

7. I'll be watching to see.

[malaise]

5. K & R for visibility

Important

[Turbineguy]

8. "to sue the government"

That means a court trial. That means discovery. That means if they flew on the Lolita Express, people will find out.

[Brenda]

9. Huh?

It's about their role in enabling the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, not the Epstein case.

But thanks for bringing that up Turbineguy!

WHERE'S THE EPSTEIN FILE JOHNSON???

[ancianita]

10. They sneak in a lot. So what. So what. We made them vote on the following. Note what your tax money has already

been wasted, but now they. saved. it.

-- SNAP benefits to 42 million Americans were increased in the Sen. bill that now goes to the House, which had to throw its own failed House bill out,
-- 4,000 federal workers got their jobs back with back pay, and blocks new mass layoffs until the end of January.

-- stopgap funding for much of the government until January 30, 2026,
-- full-year appropriations for certain programs & agencies such as the USDA and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), through the end of fiscal year 2026

-- states be reimbursed for any federal expenses they paid during the shutdown. (That includes states that paid for SNAP benefits during the shutdown.)
-- Dems got 271 Repubs to "cave" on the cancellations of holiday flights

-- Dems forced Republicans to now have to return to work and Johnson will have to swear in the new Arizona Representative.

Those rethug Senators will also have to pay all legal fees for their own lawsuits.

Try doing your homework before popping off with anti-Democrats corporate media hype.

[Wiz Imp]

11. Why do those people need legislation to be "allowed" to sue the government?

Wouldn't they already have that ability? And regardless, being able to sue, is not remotely close to winning a judgment. The likelihood of any of those people ever winning a single penny in a lawsuit against the Government is damn near zero.

[Initech]

13. These fucking morons would be nothing without the frivolous lawsuit.

All they do is sue people. It's time to end this madness and end their egregious abuses of the courts. Enough.

[KS Toronado]

15. That idea sounds like it came straight from IQ4.7

and he gets 25% off the top.