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Anonymous wrote:Do you hear this Leader Schumer?

Are you appropriating the pain of a marginalized subgroup to use a political mallet in service of the Republican-ruled branches of the US government?

Please make your case clear.

I don’t know what you just said. And I do think you do either.

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Anonymous wrote:We just need six Democrat senators to do the right thing so I can get my paycheck. Looking at you Mr. Van Hollen.

So dense

Never a look at Thune?

I guess you are right. They don't think about you at all

Narrators voice: “Leader Thune has brought a clean CR to the floor 14 times for a vote.”

This shutdown is about the ACA subsidies. I get that you in your secure fed med plan dgaf about the under insured. Thankfully, other feds care and the Democrats care.

This admin could find money to pay the Snap benefits if they wanted to. They've been very creative using their powers when they care. A Dem president would find the funds, shutdown or not.

The “subsidies” were only ever intended to be temporary to get through COVID. That’s why the DEMCRATS capped the subsidies at 5 years. ACA was never intended to be Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. It was never intended to be another entitlement program. The country is $38 trillion in debt because of these programs.

No the country is $38 trillion in debt because republicans repeatedly cut taxes but don’t cut spending by an equivalent amount to match the lost revenues.

The Republicans are trying to cut spending. But since they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate they cannot pass individual appropriations bills so we’re stuck with the FY24 Biden budget. Which, ironically, the Senate Democrats have now voted 14 times against.

It’s no longer the FY24 Biden budget. That budget funded USAID, foreign assistance, the education department, infrastructure projects, disaster assistance and numerous other things than Trump has cut. If Rs want to continue whatever remains of that budget, they can change the filibuster and do it with 51 votes.

So I can’t get my paycheck because Trump cut USAID? Are you out of your mind?

Republicans can end this any moment they want. But what they want is the cover of Dem votes to say it was all bipartisan. Nope.

They’ve tried to end it 14 times since October 1. So there’s that.

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Anonymous wrote:I am pro SNAP and funding SNAP through the shutdown. But I feel like the media, even “mainstream” media portrays the recipients in such an unflattering light or the stories don’t even make sense. I’m honestly surprised a lot of these people agree to be interviewed.

“ Buck, in Mississippi, is pregnant and expecting her ninth child in February. She and her husband both work — Buck is part-time at McDonald’s — and rely on SNAP funds to feed their kids.”

“Corbett was driven out of the workforce by debilitating back and joint pain, likely exacerbated by his job as a forklift driver. His 5-year-old son has nonverbal autism and requires constant care. His wife, Emily, recently lost her part-time job at a gas station, he said, leaving the family without their only source of income.”

https://apple.news/AXKSGDMnVQsG6wmlXz-VF5Q

You know what makes for fewer children who can't be cared for? Easy, cheap access to birth control. You know what's been cut, dismantled, and reduced through recent GOP policies? You got it.

Yeah. That’s why she’s having a 9th kid. Because she can’t find out how to get free birth control or doesn’t know how babies are made.

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Anonymous wrote:We just need six Democrat senators to do the right thing so I can get my paycheck. Looking at you Mr. Van Hollen.

So dense

Never a look at Thune?

I guess you are right. They don't think about you at all

Narrators voice: “Leader Thune has brought a clean CR to the floor 14 times for a vote.”

This shutdown is about the ACA subsidies. I get that you in your secure fed med plan dgaf about the under insured. Thankfully, other feds care and the Democrats care.

This admin could find money to pay the Snap benefits if they wanted to. They've been very creative using their powers when they care. A Dem president would find the funds, shutdown or not.

The “subsidies” were only ever intended to be temporary to get through COVID. That’s why the DEMCRATS capped the subsidies at 5 years. ACA was never intended to be Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. It was never intended to be another entitlement program. The country is $38 trillion in debt because of these programs.

No the country is $38 trillion in debt because republicans repeatedly cut taxes but don’t cut spending by an equivalent amount to match the lost revenues.

The Republicans are trying to cut spending. But since they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate they cannot pass individual appropriations bills so we’re stuck with the FY24 Biden budget. Which, ironically, the Senate Democrats have now voted 14 times against.

It’s no longer the FY24 Biden budget. That budget funded USAID, foreign assistance, the education department, infrastructure projects, disaster assistance and numerous other things than Trump has cut. If Rs want to continue whatever remains of that budget, they can change the filibuster and do it with 51 votes.

So I can’t get my paycheck because Trump cut USAID? Are you out of your mind?

Republicans can end this any moment they want. But what they want is the cover of Dem votes to say it was all bipartisan. Nope.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you hear this Leader Schumer?

Are you appropriating the pain of a marginalized subgroup to use a political mallet in service of the Republican-ruled branches of the US government?

Please make your case clear.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We just need six Democrat senators to do the right thing so I can get my paycheck. Looking at you Mr. Van Hollen.

So dense

Never a look at Thune?

I guess you are right. They don't think about you at all

Narrators voice: “Leader Thune has brought a clean CR to the floor 14 times for a vote.”

This shutdown is about the ACA subsidies. I get that you in your secure fed med plan dgaf about the under insured. Thankfully, other feds care and the Democrats care.

This admin could find money to pay the Snap benefits if they wanted to. They've been very creative using their powers when they care. A Dem president would find the funds, shutdown or not.

The “subsidies” were only ever intended to be temporary to get through COVID. That’s why the DEMCRATS capped the subsidies at 5 years. ACA was never intended to be Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. It was never intended to be another entitlement program. The country is $38 trillion in debt because of these programs.

No the country is $38 trillion in debt because republicans repeatedly cut taxes but don’t cut spending by an equivalent amount to match the lost revenues.

The Republicans are trying to cut spending. But since they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate they cannot pass individual appropriations bills so we’re stuck with the FY24 Biden budget. Which, ironically, the Senate Democrats have now voted 14 times against.

It’s no longer the FY24 Biden budget. That budget funded USAID, foreign assistance, the education department, infrastructure projects, disaster assistance and numerous other things than Trump has cut. If Rs want to continue whatever remains of that budget, they can change the filibuster and do it with 51 votes.

So I can’t get my paycheck because Trump cut USAID? Are you out of your mind?

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Anonymous wrote:I am pro SNAP and funding SNAP through the shutdown. But I feel like the media, even “mainstream” media portrays the recipients in such an unflattering light or the stories don’t even make sense. I’m honestly surprised a lot of these people agree to be interviewed.

“ Buck, in Mississippi, is pregnant and expecting her ninth child in February. She and her husband both work — Buck is part-time at McDonald’s — and rely on SNAP funds to feed their kids.”

“Corbett was driven out of the workforce by debilitating back and joint pain, likely exacerbated by his job as a forklift driver. His 5-year-old son has nonverbal autism and requires constant care. His wife, Emily, recently lost her part-time job at a gas station, he said, leaving the family without their only source of income.”

https://apple.news/AXKSGDMnVQsG6wmlXz-VF5Q

You know what makes for fewer children who can't be cared for? Easy, cheap access to birth control. You know what's been cut, dismantled, and reduced through recent GOP policies? You got it.

Anonymous wrote:Do you hear this Leader Schumer?

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If anyone is interested in how the shutdown is playing out in (native) Indian Country, multiple tribes are going to be butchering out part of their elk and bison herds. They are also worried about making sure federal employees working without pay are able to feed their own families.

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/senate-committee-on-indians-affairs-hear-how-tribes-turn-to-natural-resources-as-federal-shutdown-deepens-food-insecurity

An emergency authorization from the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to slaughter 18 buffalo from the tribe’s herd will produce thousands of pounds of meat for community members facing uncertain food assistance during the ongoing federal government shutdown.

In addition, the Blackfeet Fish and Wildlife Department and the Blackfeet Commodity Office are moving ahead with an elk harvest to produce more meat.

Mallott said recovery from Typhoon Halong, which hit Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, is targeted in remote areas without access to roads and hundreds of miles away from where people sought refuge during evacuation. Due to the shutdown, relief efforts are also relying on federal employees working without pay.

“We appreciate these workers’ vital contributions, and we want to see them be paid for their work, including back pay for their unpaid work these past few weeks,” Mallott said.

Thankfully the IHS (Indian Health Service) had already gone through appropriations of funds and will stay at least mostly functional for another month or two. However, service contracts for things like fax services and Up-To-Date, a medical decision-making resource, have run out and are not being renewed, so IHS does without.

As a reminder, there is a substantial portion of inhabited tribal land where residents do not have access to electricity or running water. Also as a reminder, the US government is now failing to meet treaty obligations.

These are among many examples of how tribes across the United States are moving proactively to forecast an increase in demand for food aid and to steer some direction forward as confusion and chaos boil over each day the federal government remains shut down. And with each passing day, the shutdown continues to represent another day the federal government fails to meet its treaty and trust obligations to tribes.

An emergency authorization from the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council to slaughter 18 buffalo from the tribe’s herd will produce thousands of pounds of meat for community members facing uncertain food assistance during the ongoing federal government shutdown.

In addition, the Blackfeet Fish and Wildlife Department and the Blackfeet Commodity Office are moving ahead with an elk harvest to produce more meat.

Mallott said recovery from Typhoon Halong, which hit Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, is targeted in remote areas without access to roads and hundreds of miles away from where people sought refuge during evacuation. Due to the shutdown, relief efforts are also relying on federal employees working without pay.

“We appreciate these workers’ vital contributions, and we want to see them be paid for their work, including back pay for their unpaid work these past few weeks,” Mallott said.

These are among many examples of how tribes across the United States are moving proactively to forecast an increase in demand for food aid and to steer some direction forward as confusion and chaos boil over each day the federal government remains shut down. And with each passing day, the shutdown continues to represent another day the federal government fails to meet its treaty and trust obligations to tribes.

Anonymous wrote:This!

Dems: We'll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.

Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we're gonna take food away from poor families.

That's exactly the crux of it. Republicans are using this to try and push their agenda of "ending entitlements" - and sadly the MAGA voters who voted for this shit don't even realize that they themselves will be the ones hit hard by it.

Maybe Dems should just relent and let the chips fall where they may. It will hurt a lot of people, but at least it will guarantee that no Republican ever wins another election for the next 20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:We just need six Democrat senators to do the right thing so I can get my paycheck. Looking at you Mr. Van Hollen.

So dense

Never a look at Thune?

I guess you are right. They don't think about you at all

Narrators voice: “Leader Thune has brought a clean CR to the floor 14 times for a vote.”

This shutdown is about the ACA subsidies. I get that you in your secure fed med plan dgaf about the under insured. Thankfully, other feds care and the Democrats care.

This admin could find money to pay the Snap benefits if they wanted to. They've been very creative using their powers when they care. A Dem president would find the funds, shutdown or not.

The “subsidies” were only ever intended to be temporary to get through COVID. That’s why the DEMCRATS capped the subsidies at 5 years. ACA was never intended to be Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. It was never intended to be another entitlement program. The country is $38 trillion in debt because of these programs.

No the country is $38 trillion in debt because republicans repeatedly cut taxes but don’t cut spending by an equivalent amount to match the lost revenues.

The Republicans are trying to cut spending. But since they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate they cannot pass individual appropriations bills so we’re stuck with the FY24 Biden budget. Which, ironically, the Senate Democrats have now voted 14 times against.

It’s no longer the FY24 Biden budget. That budget funded USAID, foreign assistance, the education department, infrastructure projects, disaster assistance and numerous other things than Trump has cut. If Rs want to continue whatever remains of that budget, they can change the filibuster and do it with 51 votes.

Anonymous wrote:I am pro SNAP and funding SNAP through the shutdown. But I feel like the media, even “mainstream” media portrays the recipients in such an unflattering light or the stories don’t even make sense. I’m honestly surprised a lot of these people agree to be interviewed.

“ Buck, in Mississippi, is pregnant and expecting her ninth child in February. She and her husband both work — Buck is part-time at McDonald’s — and rely on SNAP funds to feed their kids.”

“Corbett was driven out of the workforce by debilitating back and joint pain, likely exacerbated by his job as a forklift driver. His 5-year-old son has nonverbal autism and requires constant care. His wife, Emily, recently lost her part-time job at a gas station, he said, leaving the family without their only source of income.”

https://apple.news/AXKSGDMnVQsG6wmlXz-VF5Q

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just need six Democrat senators to do the right thing so I can get my paycheck. Looking at you Mr. Van Hollen.

So dense

Never a look at Thune?

I guess you are right. They don't think about you at all

Narrators voice: “Leader Thune has brought a clean CR to the floor 14 times for a vote.”

This shutdown is about the ACA subsidies. I get that you in your secure fed med plan dgaf about the under insured. Thankfully, other feds care and the Democrats care.

This admin could find money to pay the Snap benefits if they wanted to. They've been very creative using their powers when they care. A Dem president would find the funds, shutdown or not.

The “subsidies” were only ever intended to be temporary to get through COVID. That’s why the DEMCRATS capped the subsidies at 5 years. ACA was never intended to be Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. It was never intended to be another entitlement program. The country is $38 trillion in debt because of these programs.

No the country is $38 trillion in debt because republicans repeatedly cut taxes but don’t cut spending by an equivalent amount to match the lost revenues.

The Republicans are trying to cut spending. But since they don’t have 60 votes in the Senate they cannot pass individual appropriations bills so we’re stuck with the FY24 Biden budget. Which, ironically, the Senate Democrats have now voted 14 times against.

It’s no longer the FY24 Biden budget. That budget funded USAID, foreign assistance, the education department, infrastructure projects, disaster assistance and numerous other things than Trump has cut. If Rs want to continue whatever remains of that budget, they can change the filibuster and do it with 51 votes.