• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Yeah they won’t.

    What have Democrats done so far since losing the elections? Take away some bitching and moaning against trump, take away the infighting and what’s left? AOC seems to be doing something more at least but even that is chump change to the tidal wave of stupidity rolling over the US. Nobody is stopping it, nobody is doing anything.

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    7 hours ago

    refuse to help the GOP pass budget bills

    It just seems that’s what they want, innit? This way, republicans get to blame democrats for it.

    You can’t really “work with” someone if all they want is to burn it to the ground.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    If this movement becomes a thing, its about time.

    It seems like it’s been over 8 years of this aim high swing low BS where only the democrats are willing to settle for less where the republicans block anything that remotely hurts them, and if they are finally coming to terms that taking the moral high ground doesn’t work when a side isn’t willing to cooperate then good for them. I had lost faith that they actually had the moral compass to allow for it.

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Going to repost my comment from another crosspost of this:

    They have already pledged to do similar?

    First, I have made clear to House Republican leadership that any effort to steal taxpayer money from the American people, end Medicaid as we know it or defund programs important to everyday Americans, as contemplated by the illegal White House Office of Management and Budget order, must be choked off in the upcoming government funding bill, if not sooner.

    https://democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-releases/dear-colleague-re-ongoing-house-democratic-caucus-activity

    And note that the dems only have power on this if republicans fight each other like last time. Reconciliation means it only requires a strict majority on spending bills (but can only be used a couple of times per year)