Since #ElonMusk’s so-called #DOGE took over important govt #technology teams within the #GSA & what was formally known as the #USDS, around 200 technologists have either resigned or been fired, jeopardizing around a decade’s worth of work dedicated to everything from #PublicHealth to #passport applications.

In addition to those #water #conservation programs, the #InflationReductionAct set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for projects aimed at keeping #ColoradoRiver tributaries #clean & #healthy. Conservation groups, small nonprofits, Native American tribes, & local governments were assigned federal money for a bevy of projects that included #Wildfire prevention & #HabitatRestoration.

The 2022 #InflationReductionAct allowed President #Biden to designate $4B for #ColoradoRiver programs, including big sums for programs that pay #farmers, #cities & #NativeAmerican [#IndigenousPeople] tribes to #conserve Colorado River #water &, instead, leave it in those #reservoirs. The payments are compensation for money they can't make by using water to grow crops or for other uses.

The #ColoradoRiver is shrinking due to #ClimateChange, which means the nation's 2 largest #reservoirs, #LakeMead & #LakePowell, created by #dams, have reached record low levels in recent years amid a #megadrought spanning >2 decades. If #water levels fall much lower, they could lose the ability to generate #hydropower within the massive dams that hold them back, or even lose the ability to pass water downstream.

The rebuke, which built steadily through the day & culminated w/a long written *statement* from #Trump in the late afternoon, has forced #MikeJohnson back to the drawing board on a plan to prevent a Christmastime #GovernmentShutdown — & maintain the support of his chaotic conference to be reelected as #speaker early next year [].

Deficit-minded #Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures.

And #HouseRepublicans’ personal rivalries surfaced again in a callback to the #funding debacle that a year ago ousted #MikeJohnson’s predecessor, #KevinMcCarthy, from the speakership.

#Trump may have thrown off those plans w/a Wednesday afternoon social media post demanding that #Republicans include the #voting registration bill…in a #funding package, or force a #GovernmentShutdown.

“BE SMART, REPUBLICANS, YOU’VE BEEN PUSHED AROUND LONG ENOUGH BY THE DEMOCRATS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN,” the idiot wrote.

#Republican leaders knew they had probably set up the vote to #fail. 2 people familiar w/ #MikeJohnson’s thinking said #Republicans are expected to blame #Democrats [who do NOT control the #House, so good luck w/that] & the handful of #GOP colleagues who tanked their bill as the reason Johnson must now pivot & begin negotiations [beggar] w/a #Democratic-led #Senate.

#law #ChaosCaucus #PublicDisservice #GovernmentShutdown #government #shutdown #Republicans

#MikeJohnson’s bill, which combined a 6-month extension of federal funds at current spending levels w/a measure the #House already passed requiring proof of #citizenship to register to #vote in national #elections. The Democratic-controlled #Senate & the White House oppose the House bill, because of the length of the extension & because of the registration provisions.