Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the House, leaving it uncertain whether Congress can avert a shutdown before Friday night’s deadline.
The House on Tuesday narrowly approved a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the end of September.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR,” Schumer said on the floor, calling for a one-month funding bill that provides more time to negotiate a deal.
“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass," he said. “I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.”
If Dems stick to their guns on this, I’ll be well and truly surprised. 🤷♂️
And, if Dems do reject bill in question, can they summon the balls to get what they should get out of doing so…?? 🤷♂️
I have a bit of hope that constituents are getting through, but not much expectation given Dem’s past performance. 🙄
I agree. I expect they’ll either fold or block the bill, then give Republicans everything they want in the “bipartisan” bill.
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Have you seen the Democratic Party’s track record?! They’re not exactly the party of deeds. Even when they have a majority, they can’t get anything done, because “it’s not according to The Process”(!)
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You’re not wrong, but you’re wrong to say it unless it’s immediately accompanied by a call to action to force them to quit being that way.
“It’s amazing how y’all think the stove might be hot. Just because every other time you placed your hand on it you got burned.”
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Abstain or vote no on this budget. Don’t give an inch — vote no on anything detrimental instead of trying to bargain. Drag republicans through court cases for all these nonsense executive orders.
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Filibuster. Make it go to reconciliation. Keep proposing amendments to gum up the works.
Now dismiss this like you dismiss anything that isn’t “do whatever republicans want.”
Realistically, defeatism is the best way to go.
Can do more damage getting folks’ hope up than speculating failure of leadership.
Because if they hope, then will delay personal decisions, and some people reading the social nets have stuff coming at them soon: either with federal layoffs, frozen budgets, delayed assistance, persecution or some other.
And basically saying leadership will follow track record will do no harm, it’s not like polls matter right now. There are no elections in the near future; and what the fallout of whatever they do will be huge, dwarfing any defeatism talk
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Already? This is a pattern of behavior.