Thread by @RepMcGovern

Today the @HouseGOP put out their rules for the next two years of Congress.

If you thought their dysfunction, disorganization, and disarray was bad before, buckle up, because it’s about to get even worse. A 🧵…

You’d think House Republicans might look at their failures and try to change course by working with Democrats, as we’ve been asking, to address the major problems facing our country.

You’d think. But you’d be wrong.

First, by injecting partisan extremism into the rules, Republicans are totally destroying the role of Speaker of the House.

Their proposed changes would, for the first time in history, shield the Speaker from accountability to the entire chamber by making it so that only Republicans can move to vacate the chair.

This makes it clear that they have no intention of working together to find common ground. Instead of electing a Speaker of the House, they decided to elect a Speaker of the Republican Conference—held hostage by their most extreme members.

This election was close—Republicans lost seats! And the American people want us to work together.

But the other side learned no lessons, because here they are, doubling down on extremism with an unprecedented anti-democratic move that would fit right in at the Kremlin.

And the bills in this package—apparently their top priorities—are also the clearest window yet into their agenda.

Here’s what I see: Nothing to help workers. Nothing to bring down grocery prices. Nothing on lower rent or affordable housing. Silent on inflation & healthcare costs.

Next to nothing on jobs & the economy.

Instead, I have no doubt they’ll find plenty of time to pass tax breaks for billionaires and massive corporations at the expense of everyday Americans.

Their first 12 bills not only bypass regular order, they are all totally closed—meaning no amendments at all from Democrats or Republicans.

So much for openness & transparency.

And that’s after they broke their own shameful record by running the most authoritarian congress ever—silencing debate, breaking their own rules, shutting out voices & blocking amendments time after time over the last two years.

The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is—and you better believe that Democrats will not let Republicans turn the House of Representatives into a rubber stamp for their extreme policies.