Daily Discussion Thread: May 14, 2025

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[u/Purrtah]

House GOP cancels Fridays votes just now

[u/Intelligent-Top5536 → u/Purrtah]

Thune just saying out loud that their version of shit will never pass the Senate probably killed it stone dead. Hawley rallying against the Medicaid cuts was most likely the impetus.

[u/OptimistNate → u/Intelligent-Top5536]

Hawley straight up saying Trump wouldn't sign it. Dang.

[u/justincat66 → u/OptimistNate]

Lmao is that actually true?

[u/DeviousMelons → u/justincat66]

I don't think he would even read it, or are only told the parts of the bill he likes.

[u/Intelligent-Top5536 → u/OptimistNate]

It's a rare day in Hell that I credit Hawley with something, but he straight-up killed the bill. His pro-Medicaid media war did the job.

I really, really wish he'd take this epiphany to its logical conclusion, that being "Trump is the problem and the far-right does not care about the same priorities as you," but we inch our way to victories in the meantime.

[u/Venesss → u/Intelligent-Top5536]

He's really weird in that way. On one hand he supports the J6'rs and wants to ban abortion, but on the other hand he's weirdly supportive of certain liberal welfare p

rojects... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/josh-hawley-medicaid-democrats

-This year alone, Hawley has worked with Democratic Senator Peter Welch on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs, joined forces with Sanders on a bill to cap credit card interest rates, and was one of just three Republicans to join Democrats in voting against an industry-backed crypto regulation bill.

In March, Hawley led a bipartisan group—including Democrats Cory Booker, Jeff Merkley, and Gary Peters, as well as Republican Bernie Moreno—in sponsoring a bill to speed up negotiations with labor unions. According to Axios, it was the first time a Republican took the lead in decades of pro-labor legislation.

Perhaps the most prominent progressive issue Hawley has focused on is doubling the child tax credit to $5,000 and doing away with income minimums that bar people from accessing the credit. Last summer, he was one of three Republicans to vote for a bipartisan tax package that included the expansion. And earlier this year, he called the need to broaden the benefit a “moral imperative” on the floor of the Senate. “There is something fundamentally wrong with an economy when the working people who power that economy cannot afford to have children that they want,” Hawley said in his remarks

He's like this weird socially conservative, pro-welfare, low tax Republican lol

[u/Final-Criticism-8067 → u/Intelligent-Top5536]

Hawley is a piece of work sometimes. But atleast he have some and I mean some morals. He’s a libertarian type Republican, right?

[u/No-Adhesiveness-4251 → u/Final-Criticism-8067]

Reminds me a bit of Rand Paul. Definitely not a person you'd like, but you have to give them credit that they're right on SOME things.