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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I no longer understand anything that is happening. I used to think I had figured some of it out and knew some of the whys and hows -even if I disagreed - I could still figure out motives and reasoning.

None of this makes sense to me.[/quote]

This doesn’t make sense because our government has reached a severe point of dysfunction. If this was a parliamentary system they would be calling a new election right now. It’s really bad.[/quote]

And Trump would be booted out.

OUR only option is impeachment.

And the puppets the Republicans put in office won’t do their jobs (of honoring the Constitution). They literally have not reported to work for 8 weeks—though they are collecting paychecks.

The Democrats stand ready to negotiate. The Republicans won’t even show up in DC. [/quote]

What’s there to negotiate?[/quote]

Pay attention.
Schumer just made an offer to the Republicans.

Thune called it a nonstarter. Johnson won’t even let his caucus come to work.

That is one side trying to negotiate and the other stonewalling.[/quote]

The House passed a bill to reopen the government. The Republican majority in the Senate is likewise happy to reopen the government.

[b]It is the Democrat minority in the Senate that  is blocking funding to the entire government because they want to demand changes they don’t have the votes for.  [/b]What they are doing is fundamentally undemocratic.

If the majorities of the House and Senate give in to this type of tactic will the minority party shut down the entire government every time they want something they don’t have the votes for?[/quote]

It seems the Republicans also don't have the votes for what they want. Why is your position that democrats must capitulate and not Republicans?  Or better yet, compromise? Why is it undemocratic for Democrats to vote in a way that reflects the citizens that voted them in?[/quote]

[b]Because Democrats are keeping the government closed for reasons unrelated to the FY26 budget process.[/b] The Republicans voted 13 times to keep the government open during Biden’s term.  Democrats have an amazing capacity to conflate issues. [/quote]

Fundamentally untrue. Had the Democrats played any part in the FY 26 budget process, there would be a very strong reason for them to support a CR. They would have prioritized keeping ACA it in some fashion. Instead, the Republicans pushed it through, with only Republican support, and they now reap what they’ve sown.[/quote]

But the Senate Democrats could support the CR and still oppose the underlying FY26 bills. Thats how we know this is not about the appropriations process.  It’s about Leader Schumers reelection process.  Federal workers in MD and VA should be apoplectic with Kaine, Warner, Van Hollen, and Alsobrooks for putting us through this trauma.  Reopen the government tomorrow. Then have a separate vote on ACA subsidies and let it win or lose on its own merits. [/quote]

Make that make sense. Support the CR—which is the execution of the FY 26 Republican-only budget— and then “oppose FY 26”. This is opposing FY 26. If Republicans wanted their support, they had all the time in the world to get it. 
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The CR would be a continuation of the FY24 budget that Democrats have already voted in favor 15 times.  So, no.  [/quote]

Yeah? I seem to remember in 2024...we had a budget for some agency… USAID? This CR restores USAID funding? [/quote]

Yes, it would.  [/quote]

What would Trump do with that funding though? Send it to his buddy in Argentina? Save it for himself? We all (Trump supporters and haters) know that he's a conman snake who won't keep his word or follow the law. He never has and never will. [/quote]

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