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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1631727420947714048[/twitter]

Multiple House Democrats have expressed anger and frustration over President Biden’s decision to sign a resolution ending a Washington, D.C., crime bill, after they were led to believe he would veto the resolution and protect the bill.

According to The Hill, some of these Democratic Party lawmakers are so outraged over Biden’s decision that they’ve resorted to blasting the White House in expletive-laden epithets. One told the outlet that this is "F---ING AMATEUR HOUR."

The same lawmaker claimed that the White House "f---ed this up royally." Others said Biden's decision was "disappointing."

The outlet reported that Biden announced his decision "to Senate Democrats during lunch on Thursday." It came as a shock to 173 House Democrats who voted for the bill in accordance with their belief that Biden was planning to veto the resolution, not sign it.

As Fox News Digital reported Thursday, the resolution came in "response to the Washington, D.C., Council's sweeping overhaul of the city's criminal code, which was approved in November. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser then vetoed the measure in January, saying it would place stress on the criminal justice system."

In a statement, Bowser slammed the update to the criminal code, claiming it would "exacerbate the already stretched capacity of the court system; and it would reduce maximum criminal penalties for violent crimes like carjacking and robberies."

The D.C. Council later overrode her veto.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the resolution to nix the update to the Washington, D.C., code in a 250-173 vote in February.[/quote]

I may be being overly generous in assuming that there was some sort of plan, but it may be that Biden thought that they had 50 votes in the Senate - even without Manchin - until Fetterman and Feinstein went to the hospital. Otherwise, it’s very hard to understand what Biden was thinking in not finding a way to head off this whole charade.[/quote]
If they are saying now that they thought Biden would save them based on vibes alone and no official statement that he would not sign the Congressional disapproval motion then it is clear there was no plan. Just consider the idea that Feinstein would vote for RCCA, it contradicts her lifetime of public service.[/quote]

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