Senate Dems Look to Give Trump Everything He Wants After a “Fake Fight” on Spending Bill
Senate Republicans do not have enough votes for cloture, a legislative procedure to end debate and move for a vote. Republicans only have a 53-47 seat majority, and 60 votes are needed to invoke cloture. If Democrats don’t provide enough votes for cloture, the government is almost certainly headed toward a shutdown Friday.
Despite promising a fight, Senate Democrats are reportedly considering a vote swap. In exchange for providing enough votes to end debate on the GOP spending bill, Senate Republicans would allow a Democratic amendment to continue to fund the government at current levels for the next month to come to the floor, known as a continuing resolution, or CR. The Democratic amendment is almost certain to fail.
Democrats opposed to the GOP bill would then be allowed to vote “no” on the broader spending bill, allowing them to seem like they’re voting against the GOP measure despite providing the needed support to bring it to the floor. Democrats have criticized the GOP plan, which would give Musk and Trump more power to slash the federal government and also cut $1 billion from Washington, D.C.’s local budget.
Nina Smith, a Democratic strategist, said this kind of wheeling and dealing is exactly why Americans have lost faith in the party.
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Aaaannndd......
There's the predicted/expected fold.
Continuing to help with Chump's agenda at every opportunity.
Fucking feckless spineless wimps demonstrating once more they are not here for the fight, they are not here to attempt to save democracy, they are not here to help us.
In fact, I've no longer any idea what actual use Dems are anymore. 🤦♀️ 🤷♂️ 🖕 🖕
Doing nothing at this point would be better.
We need to revisit this comment in five years. They will do worse.
It's long been said that the Democratic Party is the place that movements go to die. I have believed it since I started paying attention to politics in the late 80s and it has only gotten worse. Talked myself blue in the face about it for literal decades and was met with denial or the equivalent of people plugging their ears and going "NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH I CAN'T HEEEEEAR YOU!" And here we are today. I hate being proven correct.
"Always vote blue." AKA, Stockholm syndrome. I always hated seeing people say that independently minded people are terrible for voting against the Geronocrats.
This is where unwavering loyalty has lead us: betrayal.
I’m so fucking angry at this. They all have to fucking go.
Literally so embarrassing for them. I just don't understand what they're doing at all
This article headline claims the opposite of what it sources state:
No, that's factually synonymous with what this article is stating, just a difference in presentation.
To rephrase Kaine's comment with this article's perspective
But this part was entirely made up and not stated by the source.
People talk about the Democratic senators like they are some independent force , but most of them are as incapable of action as their gop counterparts.
These fuckers are so spineless. It's no wonder the US has gone full fascist.
Schumer has a spine. Granted it's only when working class people try to enforce the rules on him.
Schumer has to go
They sold us out long ago.
It's exactly like Collins and Manchin. They put up a big show of fighting and then just vote for it anyways.
The DNC must be abolished if this is their version of opposing the destruction of our civil service.
Seriously. They honestly think that they can help move along and destroy the country and that 1) everyone will forget in 18 months that they voted to capitulate and won't remember if they voted for a shutdown, and 2) that they will STILL easily pick up wins in 2026 if they capitulate.
Chuck is a schmuck.
You don't negotiate people who have a proven history of not dealing in good faith.
The fossils are selling us out. We’re fucked in a way that has no precedent.
They like trip and his plan. They’re complicit.
God, fucking useless.
AOC should have run against him when she had the chance.
This country still has centrists (GOP lite) for some reason. The Democratic party would spend as much money as they need to make her lose.
Or illegally collude like they did to Bernie.
Was it illegal?
No, it wasn't. Political parties have no true legal requirements to hold primaries or anything such thing. They are private clubs that get to set the rules.
Primaries allow for the illusion of choice.
Morally bankrupt to say the least
We have tried to tell liberals for decades this is what their party is. And they kept punching left when they should have been listening
Great, we have a coalition in power. Except that coalition is formed of the Nazi party and the Democrats who capitulate to their every whim
Why the hell do dems think republicans are just gonna play nice? And why vote for this fucking bill? Are they idiots?
Worse, they’re liars. They work for the oligarchs while wearing a pride flag.
My expectations are in the basement at this point. And yet, they still fail to meet them. Jesus fuck.
This spineless, gormless, feckless idiocy shouldn’t surprise or disappoint me any more at this point, but here we are. I must admit to feeling spikes of fury at the thoroughly manifest incompetence of our “opposition party”.
If you are commenting or reacting, take the 2 minutes to call your senators and tell them how useless Democrats are showing themselves to be. 5calls.org.
If you haven't figured it out, they don't listen to us
Cool, keep posting comments on Lemmy, that will definitely make a difference.
What what that about not both sides again
something something "they're completely different parties" something something "they had to agree to do the horrid things they both enjoy, but they're completely different" something something "youre a russian bot for asking questions"
I knew the corporate dems would cave. Especially Gutless Chuck do-nothing Schumer.
The primaries will be a blood bath for Democrats. I’ll bring the bath bombs and soap for the bubbles.
Dems roll over at the promise of a belly rub
Democrats are enabling again. Why do we even have 2 parties at this point
Democrats need youthful leaders who are actually willing to work.
Its like they literally never want to win an election again.
I've said for years our goal is to never win an election, but to keep leftists from winning.
Primary them all.
If we somehow make it through this all these fucking spineless democrats need to be held accountable for enabling these traitors and recalled.
Mind cluing the rest of us in on your 4D chess plan, Democrats?
This is what "vote blue no matter who" gets us. Weak, bad dems who have no affinity for any sort of party platform. They just printed a "D" next to their name.
Well we knew dems sux its the gop that suxed more and shouldn't even have a chance. Vote blue until no more red.
yes but we have lost. For good, maybe. And 'vote blue no matter who' incremental change didnt work to hold the line against steady rightwing pressure and rightwing change year after year. We've slowly lost the society FDR created. The ideas are scorned by the party that created them.
I actually can kind of see what they're doing? So what's the strategy here? Are they wanting to do the cloture and move for a vote to the floor? But then that would mean that they are hoping GOP is going to flip that would ultimately push to a shut down. They're really hinging on GOP to have enough non-Trump loyalists to do that but I can't really see it happening.
So yeah this kind of shit is also what is caving faith in for democrats.
You're overthinking it. They don't in any way expect Republicans to sink a Trump bill. Hell, they already have a yes vote from Fetterman. They just want to lose without it looking like full complicity.
The Republicans could have made this a majority vote. They get a few of those each year, but they didn't want to blow one on a continuing resolution. Luckily the Democrats are here to give them that for free.
JFC WTF GFY U POS.
Make Repubs cave - obstruct obstruct obstruct!