“A lot of people have been calling me about speaker. All I can say is we’ll do whatever is best for the country and the Republican Party,” Trump told reporters Wednesday outside the Manhattan courtroom where his civil fraud trial is ongoing.

The 2024 GOP presidential front-runner didn’t reject the idea of becoming speaker outright but insisted that he’s focused on his White House aspirations.

“My total focus is on being president,” Trump said, noting that there are other “great people” in the GOP who could handle the job.

However:

While Trump, 77, has already been deemed the preferred speaker choice of at least two House Republicans, a little-known House GOP rule barring those with felony indictments from serving in the role could make him ineligible for the post.

“A member of the Republican Leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years’ imprisonment may be imposed,” the Republican Conference Rules of the 118th Congress state.

So if that rule is still in place, it would have to be removed or waved to allow Trump to serve since he is under indictment in his current legal battles.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/hold-on-heres-why-trump-cant-become-house-speaker-for-now/

To sumarize, Trump really doesn't want to be speaker, but he would consider it if the party cannot get their shit together behind a single GOP house member. So if the drama in the House GOP conference continues, Trump will agree to the job if it means he can unite the party and get some real work done. Since being a GOP leader is a lot like herding cats, (they do NOT vote as a block, like the compromised Dems do) Trump will reluctantly agree to serve if they have to rally around him to get them working again.

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Got notice from my prescription plan that their prices were going to change in my favor, hard to say what caused that, but a yearly adjustment is normal. The plans do re-evaluate yearly what costs are and what premium and copays need to be charged to keep them afloat and pay out their inflated salaries to the execs. Sometimes they guess too high and the next year rates will go down some.

As for sales tax, that is a state or local matter. Since there is no federal sales tax, state and/or local units are in charge of what the rates are, what gets taxed, and what is exempt. My state is phasing out the sales tax on food (after years of fighting over who would get the credit - Repubs wanted to do it a long time ago, the Dems rejected it until they could put a lib gov in place to take all the credit).

So, in this case, Brandon might claim credit, but the people who know this stuff, will know he had nothing to do with it. All he wants to do is keep forgiving student loan debt to bribe his way to a second term.

What I find interesting is:

The libs will forgive almost anything from their membership as long as they control their votes and make incremental progress toward their goal of tearing America apart.

Conservatives will not tolerate one little variance from their membership (good God, these people are as human and fallible as the rest of us!!!), and if the conservatives have to compromise or bend a little to get an incremental concession from the libs, they are branded as abject failures who need to be swept away.

Now, I 100% agree that proven RINOs need to be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail, but conservatives who make mistakes once in a while, or incrementally help us toward conservative goals need to be supported and set back on the proper course. We need to keep the good ones, anons, even if they screw up once in a while.

Don't keep pointing to the minor issues in others' behaviors and performance until you clean up all the problems in your own.

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