Summary
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar insist Democrats should demand major concessions if they help Republicans avoid a government shutdown.
With a narrow three-seat majority, Republicans need Democratic votes to pass a spending bill, but progressives argue the GOP must “sort themselves out” first.
They oppose Republican efforts to slash corporate taxes and gut federal agencies.
Concerns remain that even if Democrats secure agreements, the Trump administration might ignore them. Some moderate Democrats agree that Republicans must take responsibility for funding the government.
The Republicans have been shutting down the government for less for as long as I can remember. If you can’t shut it down when shit getting real that’s just pathetic.
I’m sorry have you met the Democratic party? Pathetic is the only way they know to operate.
No compromise. Shut it down.
I don’t really get this. They don’t need the Democrats to keep the government open, since they have a majority in both chambers. Completely up to the GOP to get the votes lined up.
They need 60 votes- not 50- in the senate. They currently have 52 republicans.
Raising the debt ceiling requires only 50 votes I think. Besides the article is about the house. I don’t see any reason why Dems help out the GOP if they can’t stop defectors.
Dems shoudl shut down the government before the Republicans have a chance to, except without any precedence for it.
She’s falling back into the old “decorum is important” trap which Republicans stopped believing in back in the nineteen hundredn and ninety five with Newt’s shutdowns.
Stop kicking Lucy’s football, Dems
I disagree, I think it was more like nineteen ninety eight when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table
Oh shittymorph, wherefore art thou?
Fool Democrats once shame on Republicans. Fool Democrats every 4 years…
Fuck me, Democrats still can’t figure this shit out.
Good god, when will the subset of the Democratic Party with actual balls break off and see where voters stand? I’m sick of this limpdick bullshit.
There’s a subset of the Democratic party with balls? I’ve been voting for them for over 20 years and I haven’t seen it yet :(
Only some Democrats agree? What the fuck are they putting in the water there. Jesus Christ.
It really doesn’t seem like Republicans want to keep the government going.
Republicans may see a shutdown as another opportunity to devolve power from the legislature to the executive branch.
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She says this once a week.
I want no tax cuts. If they’re serious about the deficit (they’re not) then more tax cuts for the rich make no sense. A fair compromise would be some modest budget cuts and no tax cuts to shrink the deficit.
Id also like to see some more transparency and oversight into President Elon, and maybe some guardrails.
Won’t fElon just continue paying Republicans anyway and just not pay the Democrats?
The Dems are done. The only candidate they could forward was drunken Kamala Harris, and before that Old Pedophile Joe Biden. Who will they throw in front of the bus next, Hunter Biden?
