cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/usa@midwest.social/t/1306792
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Moves to Vote as Democratic Defectors Relent on Shutdown
(schumer wasn’t the defector this time)
what we got:
a provision that would call federal workers who were laid off during the shutdown back to their jobs. It also would provide funds to ensure that federal workers who were furloughed during the shutdown can receive retroactive pay [(the latter as required by a 2019 law defector Angus King passed)].
The short-term spending bill would additionally bar the Office of Management and Budget from implementing any additional mass layoffs of federal workers through Jan. 30.
what we did not:
healthcare
Cool, so they caved and literally accomplished nothing. Just a big fucking waste of time and republicans didn’t even have to make a single compromise.
More than nothing. They caused a lot of people distress and anxiety. Maybe put some people into debt.
They also gained a heavy blue turnout in the last election then immediately capitulate as planned.
Fucking assholes.
And to top it all off trump now gets to go around shouting about how “The Leftist Dems cancelled your food stamps”
Which he was gonna do anyway but the Dems relenting makes them look a whole lot worse
The 8 who caved:
+Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
-Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
+Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
-Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
+Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
-Sen. Angus King of Maine
+Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada
-Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Please, these are just the volunteers who either have years until reelection or are retiring. We know they are just a front because Warner voted yes and then mysteriously changed his vote to no. Couldn’t be because his reelection is coming up next year. No way.
As a Nevada resident I’m extremely disappointed and embarrassed.
I’m sorry, but americans sound so freaking DUMB
Why would you require 60 votes out of 100 to pass any law?
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