Congressional Democrats are marching in lockstep into the fourth week of a government shutdown, even as lawmakers brace for what could be the most painful point yet — a cutoff in federal food aid for more than 40 million people.
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are signaling that there will be no change in strategy: Democrats won’t provide the votes to reopen the government unless their demands over health care are met. And they’re increasingly hammering President Donald Trump for his failure to sit down to negotiate with Democrats, while instead embarking on his second foreign trip so far during the shutdown.
“This is all Trump,” a visibly frustrated Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont told CNN. “Trump’s not engaged. Republicans won’t negotiate,” Welch said, arguing that Trump’s trip to Asia this week as “an indication of how he could care less.”
I don’t get why like most of the rest of the world this doesn’t cause an election. America needs some modernization to it’s rules so that a king can’t happen again. But it won’t if the dems get in they’ll say some pretty words about healing and won’t change anything.
I don’t think this take is fully thought out.
Their system is monumentally slow.
For important decisions, they need a super majority in the senate and a majority in the house, and the presidency, and then they need to word it extremely carefully to not have it monkeys paw’d by the supreme Court.
They haven’t had an actionable super majority for over a quarter century.
The reason they appear not to do much is because without bipartisan support or all the things I just mentioned they can basically only change how money is spent and taxes (only sorta IIRC).
Basically, your comment hurts everyone by encouraging voter apathy due to pushing ideas that aren’t compatible with the reality of their slow system.
Is the DNC filled with center right people who love a lot of the bad things in place? Yes.
Are there still absolutely positive changes they would make given the opportunity? Also yes.
Is it possible to change the party through primaries and local politics? Also yes.
Anyhow, my point is, it needs to be considered the system they’re working in before loose accusations are thrown at them.
Finally, we here in Canada could literally have proportional representation right now, giving everyone’s vote equal weighting and giving us true choice and increased leverage over politicians, but we don’t, despite having a majority liberal government and so what I am saying, is having the supposed left leaning party win (or in their case less right), still doesn’t garunteed results, but it does garunteed you won’t ramp up the very real discrimination and crony corruption like you see when right wing governments win.
It matters, even if choices are mid is the point.
Federal elections here are on a set schedule, there’s no concept of a “snap” election here. The closest thing is if a Congressional seat goes vacant, they need to schedule a special election just for that seat before it can be filled.
In theory, we prevent kings here by allocating distinct powers to distinct branches of government. The problem occurs when those branches stop using the oversight powers the Constitution gives them. The American President can rule like a king – if Congress and the Courts let him.
Keep it shut down until we start striking and rioting
Of course, the false premise here is that the English language is logical
People are civil
Americans are and have been, considering what happened over the past year, extremely civil
I wonder what will be left of said civility once 42 million of them have missed two meals in a row…
Honestly? Probably blame the wrong people and keep voting R.
Yep. Hordes of people will blame the democrats for not giving in.
Next year they’d be blaming them for increased healthcare costs.
Dealing with Republicans is almost always a heads I win tails you lose situation, where the fault always falls on either immigrants or democrats.
I mean this is pretty simple for Democrats.
Americans decided to tell Democrats to go fuck themselves after Biden had a legislatively successful presidency in which he tried (and in many cases succeeded) to pass a ton of legislation to help Americans. Not to mention all the historical data proving how much better Democrats are for average Americans than Republicans.
It was a slap in the face from the ignorant American electorate.
So now Democrats just have to sit back and let Americans find out what happens when they abandon Democrats and put all their eggs in the Republican basket. Let them suffer until they learn the error of their ways…or don’t. Cuz this is America and it’s pretty stupid so there may not be any lessons learned.
They really don’t have to do anything. And shouldn’t.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m starting to think none of them care about the people within the borders of the US.
Okay neither side is great but one side is holding out to provide healthcare to Americans. You can see how they’re not the same.
I’m still confused about why the democrats are actually doing the right thing here
Isn’t Donvict off in Asia doing the double-jerkoff dance?
Seriously, I wish the Democrats were running ads showing the contrast - show the food banks running out of food, while this asshole tells everyone he is focused on destroying the east wing so he can put in a fucking ballroom and flitting off to Asia to dance the night away.
https://bsky.app/profile/abraham.bsky.social/post/3m44siauvas2b
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
This is honestly genius so of course the DNC won’t do it.
