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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced during a floor speech Thursday evening that he will vote to advance the stopgap spending bill that must become law before Friday at midnight to avoid a partial government shutdown.

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    1. It doesn’t matter what they do, Republicans will always blame Democrats for everything. They blame Democrats for the results of Republican policy, so why are you concerned about a blame game?

    2. Republicans have control of every part of the federal government, The House, Senate, Presidency, and Supreme Court. As long as Democrats just vote no and don’t impede legislation (which they should also do, but I digress), their messaging should be “look how fucking incompetent your leadership is. They have every tool at their disposal and still can’t run a government effectively.” Why is it the Democrats job to assist them? It’s not like Republicans would do the same

    I know the answer is that Democrats exist to placate people while Republicans continue enriching the wealthy but man it’d be nice if they grew a fucking spine

    • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      This is a perfect nutshell statement as to why everyone is pissed.

      All Democrats had to do was stand back and let the fucking circus start on schedule and everyone would be able to see the shit show that it is…

      It’s absolutely hilarious to me that all’s Democrats had to do with nothing, something that they’re incredibly used to doing, and they can’t even get that right. I’m so fucking tired of these pompous fucks.

    • dariusj18@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      This was about cloture vote, I doubt they will vote yes to the bill.

      Given everything you have seen since Trump took office, do you think they don’t want a government shutdown? RN so much of what the administration is doing is illegal, Democrats have no legislative power to curb that, but they can keep receipts and deal with it in two years. If the government shuts down, the administration will have the actual authority to decide what is “critical” and will furlough the rest until they all are forced to quit and find other work. A government shutdown effectively does the job they want done, and they get to blame the Democrats for it at their leisure.