Schumer cannot make this 'our' fight. I'm sorry Chuck, DOGE will do whatever the fuk it wants to regardless if this bill gets passed or we shut the fukkin gov down!
WTF!
He is full of shit.
Infuriating!
We will be so screwed...no more medicare, medicaid, healthcare, SNAP...no jobs, nothing. Zero.
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My issue right now is that Senator Schumer is not being very clear. If I understand correctly, with a shutdown, there's no use of courts to litigate to stop Trump, & the GOP would not compromise to pass a clean CR, but could leave everything unfunded & fund things piecemeal with their majorities.
What a nightmare.... 'well, okay, I'll give them 1 kidney and 1 foot, because if I don't, they might take more' THEY WILL ALWAYS want more. Stop this now. No help.
All the people that didn't vote in the 2024 election and the ones that voted against their own best interests, are why we are caught in the no-win situation. What a fucking mess!
You knew you would be criticized, means that you are ignoring the people! They already began fighting back against their party! They are already organizing and fighting back to make their voices heard! THEY ARE SCREAMING WE WILL STAND W/THOSE WHO STAND & FIGHT FOR US!!
It is actually enabling Republicans to consolidate more power to Trump and weakening Congress. A short term pain is better than losing our democracy. Appeasing a tyrant never works.
These old guard democrats don’t seem to realize, it isn’t just “the left” that are angry they aren’t doing anything. It’s ALL democrat voters. We’re watching our country fall apart and these gutless cowards are just rolling over for them!!
They did. They proposed an actual clean CR without the expanded executive powers. They can't get Republican leadership in either house to allow consideration.
I agree. I think the issue of the courts being shut down brings up the question of what else Trump and his flying monkeys will gut or impose on the US. But passing this CR budget doesn't make that threat go away and puts window dressing on what the Republicans do. It's not really a speed bump.
It is a speedbump in that Trump still has to answer to the Courts, and The Senate and Congressional leadership have ZERO excuse not to reconvene... A shutdown would literally shut everything down. He is right. NOW, the ZGOP has to OWN everything Trump does and we can nail them w/ votes and courts.
If Trump wanted this shut down, he wouldn't have bothered to have a bill. The stock market and Wall Street would work hand in glove with a shut down but you can't bring them to the table if you chop up the table yourself
I'm not sure I’d call it spineless. This truly is a difficult situation. Minimizing potential assoc. risks (beyond blame games) is not helpful. Shutting down gov’t doesn’t mean Trump & Co. become less powerful. Part of me wonders if, in the end, it HELPS GOP. it *is* hard, people. Be empathetic.
I am still on the side of not voting “no” on cloture & CR. GOP is majority. If they're so sure they want the hit to employment (will be ALL sectors), economy (not just in US), increase in unhoused populations, etc., they should vote “yes.” Otherwise, they have a solid out. Let’s see what they do.
It's like he lives in his own world. They already have plans to shut down and fire every thing they don't deem essential, that is the whole point. How does Schumer not understand that.
He does, but in a shutdown, the fired employees would have no legal recourse in the courts. Former employees are winning in the Courts right now. . . That would all end in a shutdown.
Also, the Senate and Congressional leaders could choose not to reconvene for MONTHS. He made the right call.
@chuckschumer.com is simply lost. He thinks he is going to debate, slow things down a bit and then have a 2026 election. He does not realize they are a short time from ignoring the courts anyway. Looking forward to some good debates and tv appearances as we roll on into to void.
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WTF!
He is full of shit.
Infuriating!
We will be so screwed...no more medicare, medicaid, healthcare, SNAP...no jobs, nothing. Zero.
😡
... we will remind you every single day, that people are losing their jobs, their homes, and their lives ... and you gave them permission.
Also, a day is not a day.
If they do not, Dems blame the Republicans.
Am I missing something? WTAF is going on? Why doesn’t Schumer understand this?
The people will reject the GOP rightly for the shutdown.
But we can find a new Dem leader in the Senate while we're waiting.
Also, the Senate and Congressional leaders could choose not to reconvene for MONTHS. He made the right call.