House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sounded the alarm late last week over the very real likelihood that Republican zeal to confront President Obama with a government shutdown threat will lead to very ugly stuff.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has not been specific but said he expects the funding bill to include some changes to existing policy.
That’s led Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to sound the alarm.
She also declined to offer specifics, but she said Thursday that there were potentially "several hundred poison pill riders" that could sink a funding package if Republicans pushed them—and cause a government shutdown.
One of those could very well be blocking funding for the FCC to implement net neutrality, because while some Senate Republicans want to approach it with stand-alone legislation, House Republicans are itching for a big fight.
Here's a very likely scenario Republicans would try to implement—they make the main fight over Syrian and Iraqi refugee policies and use it as leverage or a bargaining chip to slip through smaller bore poison pills, things that aren't at the forefront in the traditional media. There's dozens and dozens—or as Pelosi says, several hundred—poison pills the GOP is going to try very hard to enact.
We fought too hard for net neutrality, as just one example, to stop fighting now. Tell Congress to stop the sneak attacks on net neutrality. Tell them to block any appropriations riders that threaten to undermine the FCC and the internet.