Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Grijalva, a Democrat, while the government is shut down, leaving the residents of her sprawling southern Arizona district without a vote in Congress — or help back home.
Grijalva would be the decisive 218th member to support a discharge petition and force a House vote on the Epstein files over the objections of Johnson and Trump.
Grijalva has asserted the delay is an attempt to block a vote on the Epstein files. Among her supporters, that’s a given.
Guess Arizonans won’t have to pay their Federal Income Tax for 2025 then. No taxation without representation, right?
DC would like to have a word.
Katie Hobbs is a DINO; she’ll just roll over and do what the republicans want. She signed the porn ID bill into law FFS.
Oh yeah, let me just go tell my employer to stop withholding federal taxes and see how that goes.
I mean… You can literally do that at any point. You’d just owe the IRS at the end of the year. Many people prefer this as they consider withholding to be a free loan to the government.
I’m pretty sure you’d still have to make quarterly estimated payments in that case to avoid potential fines.
update your w-4 to “exempt”
And if this movement picks up enough to actually be effective, how do you think it works out?
No taxation without representation, right?
Doesn’t work that way. Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam, Washington DC, etc pay federal taxes and don’t have representation.
IRS Code §933 is a little more complex than that. Income sourced within the territory isn’t required to be claimed while income sourced externally is.
My comment is related to rumblings among blue states being retaliated against by the current administration about soft secession.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mass-middle-soft-secession-means-094720699.html
Speaker Johnson is a coward. Never seen such a spineless worm of a man in my life.
Honest question here: does this actually matter given that the House has been on recess for like a month? Like, could she do anything if she were sworn in during this time?
- according to posts here she is not allowed to move into her office or access government data, so she can’t help constituents nor start getting up to speed.
- there’s an argument for whether they should be on recess. They could be trying to get things done.
- looking at published calendars from the before times, the House is supposed to be in session.
They are still being paid too… Kind of fucked to tell ATC to work unpaid and then go on paid leave.
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She’s got strong legs, whereas Vance’d be squirming in sogged sofa cushions days ago.
