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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • Yep, and they’re already making demands, but its in March, and note dem power is limited there. Reconciliation allows budgets to pass without a filibuster, so dems only have power if Republicans infight. There’s decent odds of Republicans infighting like the other prior times, so Dems still are planning to use their votes to get some protections against Trump’s actions

    In a letter to House Democrats, Jeffries hammered the administration for issuing an order — since rescinded — to freeze federal aid that Congress had previously allocated. Jeffries suggested Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that doesn’t explicitly prevent Trump from freezing, slashing or otherwise altering those programs, including Medicaid, which saw its services disrupted amid the chaos over the freeze.

    The Democratic leader said he’s already delivered the message to House GOP leaders that, absent those assurances, Republicans will be on their own to prevent a shutdown.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5123216-jeffries-government-shutdown-trump-orders/



  • Not actually performative, it’s one of the few things they really have power to do without republicans support. They can drag specific types of nominations out to end to taking something like almost a year to get through all of them. And take up limited senate floor time for other bills, legislation, etc in the meantime

    There are hundreds of nominations they need to get through

    My understanding, is that historically, the minimum debate times thresholds for nominations have been waved away via unanimous consent - especially for minor positions. If one senator objects, then you have to go the whole time

    Another thing they can do is force quorum calls to waste time counting people present. Usually quorum is assumed


  • This is one post in a live thread so maybe something got weird there

    The gist of it is that after speaking to around 100 protestors, various dem senators and house reps tried to get into the building. They got inside technically but ended up being blocked at the main entrance

    Unsure if they are still there

    They spoke about how insane Musk & Trump’s plans are and how they plan to fight in courts. I believe they also spoke about plans slow down senate nominations with the procedural tools they can (or that might have been said outside of the protests)









  • The good news is that some progress has been made in the US. The semi-recent (2022) FDA modernization act 2.0 removes mandates for animal testing in law and allows other testing methods to be used instead

    There’s another bill (FDA modernization act 3.0) that was just reintroduced a few days ago to not just allow the FDA to use non-animal testing, but to require that the FDA start actually working to allow it and setup pathways, rules, requirements, etc. And prioritize the review of drugs done via approved non-animal testing

    It includes various reporting, safety, etc. requirements laid out so it wouldn’t just be handing it blindly to the current admin

    The 2.0 act was suprisingly bipartisan, so it’s not a given that the 3.0 act would be doomed. Call your house representative and senators to make sure it gets through!