Peter Fossum

Makes a wicked grilled cheese, proud parent, pizza expert, loves the SF Giants, and always learning something new.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SpeakerJohnson Base the continuing resolution on the 2024 budget, the last budget that we had. With no new spending allocations it can pass with a simple majority in the Senate. With this plan you only have to work 3 or 4 days a year. And the government stays open forever. At 2024 spending!

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SpeakerJohnson Well, Mr Speaker, since You want to just use continuing resolutions in stead of writing a budget...here is a plan to reopen the government. Pass a twelve month cr. Then you can adjourn Congress until September 2026. Then do it again next year.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@MikeJohnson No Mr. Speaker, You have chosen to not do your job.

We, the People, were supposed to have a budget before September 30 of last year. You kept asking for more time. And thanks to the Democrats in Congress you have gotten an extra 12 months and you still have not done your job!

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SpeakerJohnson No Mr. Speaker, You are required to reopen the government. Just like You are required to get us, the People, a budget before September 30, 2024. If You had done your job, the government would not have shut down. So, either get the budget done, or resign from your seat.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@EricLDaugh Well that's a great plan. A clean continuing resolution with caveat that if the budget is not passed within seven weeks, the House and Senate leadership will vacate their seats. They have had more than a year to get this done. We, the People, should not tolerate this!

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SenateGOP The budget was due by September 30 of 2024. We have given the Speaker, and the Republican controlled House, more than a year a they still have not done their job. In private industry they all would have been fired before the end of last year.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SenateGOP Well maybe, if the House of Representatives got us a budget, the government wouldn't be shut down. And Speaker Johnson has been promising the People that if we just give him a little more time...

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SpeakerJohnson Maybe if Congress had passed a budget the government would not have shutdown.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SenRickScott Did I just hear you suggest passing a budget?

We, the People, are still waiting for a 2025 budget.

I suggest that in your Bill we further claw back all congressional spending done so far without the budget.

We could get back trillions of dollars.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@HouseGOP @RepLisaMcClain The way to end the government shutdown is simple...pass a budget.

It was due no later than September 30...of 2024.

Speaker Johnson keeps demanding extensions, and promising to get the job done.

Seems like the budget will never be done!

Republican incompetence

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@GOP If you had passed a budget there would be no need for a continuing resolution.

It's your job. Why don't you try doing it?

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@lmnoprt7254 @Suzierizzo1 So in your version of America, people are guilty until proven innocent?

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@LeaderJohnThune Are you going to get a budget? That would open the government.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SpeakerJohnson @SenSchumer Here's an idea, speaker Johnson, pass a budget and you don't need a continuing resolution. Any 8th grade civics student knows that. Apparently you don't.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SpeakerJohnson Just wondering, if we had a budget, would there be a shutdown?

Maybe the party in the majority should begin to work on that.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@LeaderJohnThune That's interesting. Maybe You should put those things into the budget.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SteveScalise By saying you did your job, do you mean you passed a budget? Because that is your job.
Or you think that the job is passing a continuing resolution and not a budget? So you're ignorant.
Or a continuing resolution is the best you can do. So you're incompetent.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SenJohnKennedy So Senator, what makes you think that another continuing resolution is going to help. It really looks like the people in charge of the House and the Senate are incompetent. And we the People will never get a budget, just more empty promises.

[Peter Fossum @pgfossum]

@SenJohnKennedy Speaker Johnson then promised we would have a budget no later than March 2025. With promises from Senator Thune and Speaker Johnson that the budget would definitely be done by September 2025, the Democrats in the Senate helped pass another continuing resolution.