"I am asking you all to give us a few months to get us through to September so we can continue to put the country's 'financial house' in order ... Fight for another day when the timing is right." Sad
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Don't buy his shit. #Project2025 will be fully implemented and your democracy is done. Force your congressman to negotiate with Canada now or your economy will be toast by then.
Donald wants to shut down the government on his terms.... a targeted shit down meant to hurt the most Americans possible, while maximizing financial gain for hime and the rest if the filthy rich, lawless pirates he runs with...
they will blame the Dems for everything bad no matter what caused it, so Dems agonizing over potentially being blamed for a shutdown need their heads examined
my theory is that he wants to wait for september so they can fail and he can declare bankruptcy at the end of the fiscal year, then set funding at zero for ~everything by eo [of course he can't do this, he can't do any of this, and yet]
A Continuing Resolution (CR) is an act of Congress that provides budget authority to continue government operations when Congress and the President have not approved an annual appropriation bill on or before October 1st.
I think James Carville was right suggesting Dems offer a one month CR with strings attached (Congress starts applying Art. 1 power of the purse, oversight etc.)
Then do it again for another month.... requiring compliance with the Constitution and laws
serious political hardball
... He's already required to comply. The only benefit from doing that would be to make a statement and force Republicans to oppose Trump. Which they won't do.
If any Dems vote for this they will be giving this TYRANT and his magat republican supporters free rein to continue their illegal unconstitutional arbitrary slash and burn governance.
I read that it's a nasty CR. The biggest issue I personally have is they want to give the president more control of how our tax dollars are spent. That sounds like an authoritarian move to me.
Sounds like desperation. Unfortunately, he’s got the mobster routine mastered so who knows what R MoCs in swing districts will do. I suspect comply out of fear of retribution, electoral or otherwise.
Hmm, didn’t he post the exact opposite the last time Congress didn’t do their jobs and shoved another CR down the road? Blasted Johnson about letting it pass too, I think.
Musk said at his Town Hall in late October 2024:
“Americans will experience a temporary hardship for long-term prosperity. We have to reduce spending to live within our means”.
On an X post, Musk agreed that mass deportations will crash the market & cause it to tumble.
Multi faceted offense to destroy the United States. I think this is the ultimate goal. Build it back up with a new constitution, Christian based with only the wealthiest ‘men’ running the show. And we will have them more external territories taken by force one way or another…
He signed an executive order that essentially shuts the government down by firing every employee that isn’t “essential” which is the same thing as a shutdown
They're already blaming a shutdown on Democrats. No doubt they will win the messaging war while Democrats sit around with their thumbs up their asses and stamping their feet because they are mad. It's so sad.
Interesting response from Ai, when I asked Chatgpt. September 2025 may be significant for Donald Trump because of the potential timing of his legal cases or campaign activities. As of now, Trump is facing multiple legal challenges, and some trials or hearings are scheduled around that time.
September 2025 would be the point in his first year in office where his policies and political influence would be taking shape. Beyond that, it could also be significant as he might be continuing his influence in politics, possibly preparing for the 2028
It's truly pathetic that our "leaders" have disappeared when we need them out there fighting. The few standing up and fighting are the ones we need now, not 20 years from now.
Trump wants to destroy the government, and he has the House put together a CR that increases the nation's debt. Perhaps shutting down the government is the better option.
"Please [continue the Biden approved big beautiful budget because I can't get shit done without help from the people who hate me simply for ridiculing them constantly and threatening them with jail for disagreeing with my incredibly unpopular policies]!"
Translation: people are hyper-focused on the whole gut Medicaid and destroy Medicare and social security and my poll numbers are tanking. If you shut down the govt now, my bros and I can’t manipulate the stock market with tariff bullshit and we won’t make bank. We need to wait for new distractions.
So by September he’ll have disbanded Congress? Imprisoned all Democrats? Closed down all departments of government except the military? Gave our country to Putin? What?!
Dissent? HOW ABOUT A REVOLT??? There's more of us than there are of you and we know it. We're watching and weighing options. EXPECT EXTREME DISSENT, CRIMINAL
BA was a disenchanted hero, djt is an amoral, wind bag, who's a Russian asset, handing our ally to the enemy. He should be tried for treason, and sentenced to hard labor in Leavenworth Federal Correctional Institution, imho.
WHAT??
THE FUCKER SAID PLEASE?
THATS AMAZING COMING FROM THIS GIANT PIECE OF SHIT!!
THERE IS NO DEATH THAT WOULD CRUEL ENOUGH FOR HOW HE HAS BETRAYED UKRAINE!!!
BUT AMERICANS HAVE GREAT IMAGINATIONS!
The tell is that this is several months instead of his usual kneejerk two weeks. He knows deep down that the economy is going to tank, and any short term timeline he proposes is going to actually be held to account. Or maybe I'm giving him too much credit.
If the CR doesn’t pass the gov’t shuts down next week. A “clean” CR would just extend current funding to some future date, so Republicans have time to rally more support for gutting Medicaid and food stamps.
You’re not putting our financial house in order you’re chopping it apart agency by agency so you and other rich people can buy the pieces at rock bottom prices. You will then charge us for the services we need in our daily lives. You’re hypocrites.
You’re the ones shutting down the government. We are watching you destroy our government so you and your billionaire donors can buy the pieces and start privatizing the parts of the government that will make you rich. If I had a choice you wouldn’t get another minute to destroy our government.
What kind of “corporate executive” would ever tells its employees/customers “just give it a few months?!” There would be a strategic plan shared! With real due dates! You can’t run the govt as a business- they are not the same!
Given the Veteran's cuts, Medicaid cuts and no SS protection among the other healthcare cuts, this seems like a dealbreaker. It would be nice to see something that followed through on Trump's promises during his campaign. What happened?
You’re welcome. I just hope the American public is paying attention and not being distracted by the rhetoric because this is another sneaky way to take money away from Medicare, Medicaid, veterans, healthcare…..
not so sneaky, Trump made campaign promises to Americans. He should be held accountable for breaking those promises. Never thought I would feel sorry for MAGA voters, but I really do. The rest of America voted and lost. MAGA voted, won and now has lost everything.
The sneaky part is that, yes he ran on all of that, they tried to pass that first budget by hiding things like Medicare Medicaid under energy. Now they’re saying pass this continuous resolution, which also hides things and saying those things are there. They know their base won’t read it.
The dog has finally caught the car. For a generation the Right has run against governance and reality. Their whole coalition is an anti-governance anti-reality coalition. They have NO skills for this. And they just fired every smart person in America, who all now have a lot of free time to organize.
One thing that Trump & Elon are both really good at is telling their supporters that in some far-off distant future, all of their dreams will come true.
Ds have to get out ahead of this more than they are, speaking of unity. He’s going to hang blame for shut down on them if they do the right thing & take issue with the budget or the Rs will get away with completely destroying the economy & most people won’t get that it was avoidable (so no blame).
Wait??? Are we sure that Trump actually wrote this??? The word “please” threw me. The bully man/child never says please. He just demands and expects people to bow. And for the record, he’s running our economy and the entire country to the shitter as my dad used to say.
I think they could get 217 because they're doing the Lord's work, starving the beast.
They might get a few scaredy Ds, afraid to be blamed for a shutdown.
They might get Fetterman & Coons if it's close to Valentines Day.
Plus, once blocked he'd have to cut a new deal with either his wing nut caucus or the Dems. He can't deliver on his promises. The best he can do is to deliver a delay.
They can't make a deal in the house, so the strategy is to make it look like the resulting shutdown is Dems fault. "I mean, did the Dems ever even say thank you?"
Democrats are going to screw this up. They should be in lock step NO Votes and explain why, Trump is just going to cut whatever he wants so why vote on anything, make Republicans answer why they need a bill when Trump is doing whatever he wants.
In state the democrats are I wouldn’t be surprised. Especially at the actual state America is. You better find a quick cure for the patient or you’re doomed pulling the rest of the world in their disaster.
Trump fights one fight at a time. The only one he is looking at is the House. The Senate is another day. Let’s hope, with all of the poison pills in the CR, all the Republicans will not vote for it.
This isn't a typical CR as there are still a bunch of line item cuts. He wants to drag the other unilateral cuts out through September then try to force the tax cuts in budget form before the midterms.
this is a continuing resolution to fund through the end of the FY largely at last year’s levels in order to give them time to work out the details for an FY26 budget via reconciliation. There isn’t time to hammer out those details before the shutdown on Friday.
Hmm… maybe the rules (which are somewhat arcane) prohibit using the reconciliation process twice in a year in this particular way, such that they need to choose between using it for the CR and the later omnibus budget (as both funding and revenue are in both bills)?
Have ANY of these bastards articulated a plan for this unprecedented unnecessary unwanted massive re-engineering of the entire American economy and way of life? Like, what are the specific timelines, metrics, steps, procedures, etc to get us to their utopian paradise ?
If Democrats shut down the govt, then all of the ongoing chaos will not only accelerate, but be blamed on them. If they grudgingly vote to keep the govt going, they can argue that they're doing their best to keep things going despite the Republicans/Trump wrecking things. It's the better approach.
Yes because this has worked so well for Dems in the past. 🙄 No more capitulation. No more “reaching across the aisle”. When Dems do that, Republicans continue to take advantage over and over and over. Enough has to be enough.
If they do that, nothing will change (in fact it'll get worse) and they will take the blame for it. "We are desperately trying to keep your govt functioning and everything bad is a result of what they're doing." is a much better message.
They don’t even know how to message when they do things right. We need them to stand up to fascism, rather than continuing to enable the Republicans to keep eviscerating the government and shrugging their shoulders while it happens.
For months leading to the election, I had a feeling of dread, that Death was coming. 3 wks ago, I had a sudden certainty that September has meaning. I told my wife we have till Sept to plan for the fall of the US. I don’t know how I know, but that’s when the US collapses. It’s not a coincidence.
Please promise me a rich future daddy Donny and I’ll promise to behave! The only financial house he is interested in is his own and selected grovelers.
He doesn't want any Republicans to complain while he fires masses of people (increasing unemployment), dramatically reduces government services, and causes prices to sky-rocket.
And then, in six months' time, it will be too late.
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It's funny this guy Reagan said something like that. Turns out he destroyed the middle class.
https://youtu.be/KuM2h1gcf20?si=tkgpTpk5J_nrIH4t
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President Trump wants a few more months to “put the country’s ‘financial house’ in order.”
What has the Trump administration done to earn another six months to clean up the mess they have made in the last seven weeks?
(“crickets”)
Persist and resist together
Yep, desperate
SHUT IT DOWN!!!
Saying ever more of the quiet part out loud with each passing day.
The Almost Live Lame List!
Then do it again for another month.... requiring compliance with the Constitution and laws
serious political hardball
Must people are living from paycheck to paycheck now.
Losing a job is a diaster.
AND he wants us to wait 7 months!
“Americans will experience a temporary hardship for long-term prosperity. We have to reduce spending to live within our means”.
On an X post, Musk agreed that mass deportations will crash the market & cause it to tumble.
How long is temporary?
That’s Miller 😂 beg harder b-ches
Big guy, strong guy, tears in his eyes pleaded...
We / they are watching our agencies implode, services whither, international relations & markets tumble and harmful privatization forecasted.
Where are our Dem leaders? Former Prez’s?
THE FUCKER SAID PLEASE?
THATS AMAZING COMING FROM THIS GIANT PIECE OF SHIT!!
THERE IS NO DEATH THAT WOULD CRUEL ENOUGH FOR HOW HE HAS BETRAYED UKRAINE!!!
BUT AMERICANS HAVE GREAT IMAGINATIONS!
Fight
So big and strong.
https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/significant-problems-with-full-year-continuing-resolutions.pdf
They just have to trust them.
And give them all of their money.
*screams internally*
(he may have wised-up and changed it by now — )
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This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
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They might get a few scaredy Ds, afraid to be blamed for a shutdown.
They might get Fetterman & Coons if it's close to Valentines Day.
We are about to find out.
Seems likely that Thune would fire the Reid-appointed parliamentarian if she rules against them.
FY20: $3.1T
FY21(Benedict Trump’s last): $2.8T
FY22: $1.4T
FY23: $1.7T
FY24: $1.8T
FY25: pending
Every budget deficit incurred in the Biden fiscal years was $1T or more lower than the last two Trump fiscal years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/g-s1-52764/house-republicans-spending-bill-government-shutdown-trump
It's 100%on him. Dems gotta "It's not our job to save you from yourselves" this one.
The workforce has been emptied out.
They still have to ask, you still have a modicum of power
Do not
I fucking repeat, DO NOT give it to them!
He does not, and never has, needed a reality-based justification for his actions.
uh huh
And then, in six months' time, it will be too late.