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.”
I agree. I expect they’ll either fold or block the bill, then give Republicans everything they want in the “bipartisan” bill.
Amazing how y’all are so defeatist already. It’s truly remarkable. Why don’t we just go roll over and die eh? Skip all this nonsense.
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”(!)
I’m alive and not buried in 6 figure debt because of the ACA.
My brother has a legal husband because of democrats fighting for gay marriage at the state level.
My local area had many lead pipes replaced about 18mo ago that used to carry our water supply. Take a wild guess which admin made sure that happened.
I have a much longer list of complaints about the Democratic Party, but let’s start from a place of truth if we’re going to start critiquing them.
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.”
Alright I’ll ask you the same question I ask every smart ass. Let’s see if you’re the first one to actually give a real answer.
What would you have them do?
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.
They don’t need the democrats to vote yes. So all the people who get mad at the Democrats for doing “virtue signaling” instead of “real things” will be unhappy. I also have to ask: what does that accomplish? What does it do?
Got another suggestion?
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.