Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"The Holman Rule was a top demand of the same Freedom Caucus fringe that hijacked the Speaker vote.You may be thinking, "can they do that without the Senate?" No- but they say they want to use threats of a government shutdown or catastrophic debt default to extract funding cuts."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"When House Republicans brought back the Holman Rule in 2017, a group of moderates and experienced leaders among their ranks tried to stop it. Sadly it appears that no one in todays House Republican conference seems willing to take that stand now. washingtonpost.com/local/virginia"Read on Twitter
"Let them tell it in their own words: they want to use the Holman Rule to "start defunding the FBI, the DOJ.Under cover of tonight's rules debate, House Republicans are giving themselves a weapon to defund federal law enforcement in must-pass bills. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15"Read on Twitter
"Republican majorities have used Holman rule provisions to try to punish federal civil servants just for doing their jobs. The new MAGA majority in the House is going a step further, seeking to punish the FBI and DOJ and others investigating Trump: twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/"Read on Twitter
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