I really like my job but if they started monitoring my data like that I’d absolutely quit. There’s already a monitoring mechanism, it’s called your boss needing you to complete tasks on time. If you’re doing that, the only thing data monitoring does it falsely call out people who are doing their work.

For money. Whoever buys it has to pay you for it. Shutting down just means leaving a gaping hole in American social media that some other company will fill and you’ll be in the same position but with less money.

If he ever renegs they can go to Gaetz and tell him they’ll support his removal now and McCarthy is gone.

If there’s something he can get done without Democratic support, he could just do that now, so we know he doesn’t have anything he can do without Democrats. So they have leverage to make him do the deal he made, while admitting he needs to get at least half of Republicans on side too per the Hastert Rule (not a real rule but a convention) so it’s not like they can make him do ANYTHING. Plenty of Republicans signed up for the deal as already agreed though.

They’ll save him until the actual budget passes so they can hold him to the commitments from the debt ceiling deal.