Has anyone ever delivered a worse sales pitch at a worse time? The House finally dropped its 1500-page continuing resolution to kick the budget can down the road to March, and critics have already dug out weird and costly tidbits that apparently intend to grease its skids toward passage.
House Speaker Mike Johson wants to whip House Republicans into backing this CR in order to avoid a government shutdown. The last thing he needed was for Senate Democrats’ #2 in leadership to start promoting the pay raise buried in the bill — and to pick a fight with CNN’s Manu Raju over whether members of Congress deserve increases more than reporters. And yet here we are:
NEW: Number 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin has no clue what’s in the funding bill, is pleased to find out he’s getting a pay raise.
No wonder why our country is $36T in debt.
Durbin got offended after…
