I asked Schumer about this last night and his answer was basically that they’re wrong.
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR.
In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.
In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.
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Their names will be etched in our history books for the rest of time.
They along with this administration are the harbingers of Destruction of the Constitution so many died for.
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@peters.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @hirono.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @cantwell.senate.gov
Time for the progressive, young bloods to take over.
Enough of this DO NOTHING party non-sense.
Just like when agencies were being taken over on weekends he was not to be found.
- was bought?
- got too old to care?
- doesn't understand the stakes?
- just wants to get on with his book tour?
- is focused on the wrong issues?
- one of the above + needs to go.
Schumer said Trump will blame everything from the price of eggs to dismantling the IRS on shutdown.
Who needs congressional MAGAt's when we have Chuck Schumer to sell us out.
He talked about how he was voting yes because Trump too much power & shut down bad & tyrants & blah blah blah.
But he never says why he thinks he knows better than his voters, his peers, government workers. And no one asks him. Why does he think he sees something that none of us do?
Apologies
Not acting when you have power is just as good as acting against something…
something something uncle ben quote
“Democrats represent the workers.”
falls flat!
trump and musk DON’T CARE ABOUT COURT RULINGS!
And now trump has announced intention to fire 18K more! They WILL continue but with the funding WE give them to do it!
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It's not even the cowardice of that act that would bother him.
It's that after that -there is no way back to the trough.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-shift/2019/01/15/no-pay-no-unemployment-for-essential-workers-478871
DOGE shutdown.
DOGE is nonessential.
Now, I think the odds are 50-50 that he's compromised.
Sounds like Schumer needs to have a consult with Luigi,
😭😂😭😂😭😂
the democratic party is dead , and will forever be irrelevant
I hate this timeline
https://youtu.be/NLsPfYUp1QM?si=zQv1bgn0pfVEAgNl
https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296/
WHEN?? My god you have no backbone and are so out of touch it is stunning. How desperate does it have to get?
I WANT TO KNOW!
Chris, we the people are literally fighting in solidarity with a handful of progressives. We can't count on the old guard. They are wrong.
There is one case in which he might be right, and that’s if Democrats would mangle the messaging during shutdown.
Shutdown fights aren’t easy to control. Trump fared decently well during his first one.
Focus on something like Medicare and with slogans like “No votes to cut Medicare”. Learn from Bernie
Else, you get lost in the weeds and the democrats might well be punished.
It's possible
Schumer may have information we don't
If he does, he needed to speak up as soon as he got it
He looks like a quisling rn
To represent the interests of working folks?
A government shutdown would give DOGE way more leeway to do what they want and Trump could let them do it for as long as he wanted. He doesn't have to sign the CR.
@sanders.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social come to mind, for example?
Let Veteran VOTERS & 1/6-ers bear the consequences of our collective mistakes just like the rest of us have to
Nepo leon and crew did.
He is either compromised or thinks himself smarter than those that have supported his tenure.
Chuck must go.
Your interview was a masterpiece in getting someone (Schooomah) to spit out word salad and say nothing of merit for 10 minutes. Typical Dem "intellectualizing" as he tried to rationalize why the fight shouldn't be here and now. This the GOP economy & policies. The backlash will be severe.
https://bsky.app/profile/murshedz.bsky.social/post/3lkejjkunok2q
Had Schumer said "yes" & stuck to "yes".
Or "No" & stuck to "No"
But he said "No" & waffled to "Yes" - which blew the mild positives to bits and expanded the "big" to "HUGE" negatives.
https://youtu.be/QLpp7IqWjgM?si=WXOPIkFZCXZxJ9IY
In truth, there is no government to save.
MAGA have violently attacked our Capitol and filled our government with grifters & fascists.
If Democrats help MAGA out of this mess, we'll know America is dead.