I am NOT surprised…..
Chuck Schumer has NO Balls…..
The Republicans DO….
Give Trump Credit…
He’ll go for Broke….
Some Democratic Senator will probably vote AGAINST the House Bill…
Schumer, the 74 year old Democratic Minority leader , won’t be one of them…
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, broke with his party on Thursday and said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, making a forceful case for why Democrats could not allow a government shutdown that many of them have demanded.
Emerging on the Senate floor after a third consecutive day of internal Democratic discussions about how to proceed, Mr. Schumer said he would vote to clear the way for a final vote on the G.O.P. bill, which would fund the government largely at current levels through Sept. 30. He argued that if Democrats refused to do so, it would lead to a shutdown that would cede too much power to President Trump and Elon Musk.
“The Republican bill is a terrible option,” Mr. Schumer said. “It is deeply partisan. It doesn’t address far too many of this country’s needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.”
His announcement came little more than 24 hours before a shutdown deadline. If Congress fails to approve legislation extending federal funding, it will lapse at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday….
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Several Democrats — including both centrists and progressives — declared that they could not back legislation that would give that kind of power to the president and Mr. Musk. They groused that Republicans had unilaterally drafted the legislation and refused to consider any changes to win their votes, essentially daring them to take the blame for a politically toxic shutdown….
Note…
It’s up to the Judges….
Trump Owns the Congress….
ole’ Chuck IS taking a Beat Down from fellow Democrats….
COWARDS…
Schumer and the other seven Democrats who are dropping to their knees before these fascists will not have to suffer the consequences of their cowardice. They will sadly watch as things get worse and worse. They’ll beg us all for money, harass us on our cell phones, try to scare us into donating so they can hold on to the power they refuse to wield so they can leverage that power into a level of wealth and influence none of us will ever enjoy….
More…
Schumer Folds
Never has there been a leader less ready to meet the moment that’s required of him than Chuck Schumer. Primary them all.
Democrats plan to surrender democracy to Elon Musk
Democratic senators will allow cloture on the bill in return for a show vote for a clean continuing resolution which everyone knows will fail. In other words, they will give dramatic speeches against the CR while allowing it to pass.
To quote Marshall “I’d love to be wrong about all this. But I’m not. If you’re pissed, I’d keep calling your senators and making your voices heard on this. Nothing is over until it’s over. Nothing. But right now the above is the plan.”
This disgusting abdication IS NOT SET IN STONE. Please contact your senator, Senator Schumer, and every other senator you can to urge them not just to vote no to the continuing resolution, but to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE AT ALL COSTS.
He had no choice.
If there was a shutdown, the Democrats would have taken the vast share of the blame. That is a fact. Trump and MAGA were begging for it.
Those on the left, who have ruined the brand of the Democrats to unprecedented levels need to grow up and get smarter. Win more House races in 2026 to start. Taking the Senate will be very hard.
Manu Raju
@mkraju
AOC says of Schumer’s “acquiesce:”
“I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,” she said at Dem retreat, per
@sarahnferris
. She said she and her fellow Democrats are “texting, calling, sending carrier pigeons,” to mobilize the Democratic base against Schumer’s plan to allow the GOP funding bill to advance.
2026 is almost TWO YEARS away…..
There may NOT be much left for a Democratic House to vote on….
Schumer WILL probably get MORE of a YUGE Beat down….
As I said….
It’s up to the judges….
The Democratic lawmakers are lost….
And you know what?
Trump has selective hearing on them also…..
It’s called being in the minority. They needed to win more elections. It’s on them that they did not.
Over the past two weeks, two Democrat House Members have passed away, which is sad of course, but it sets them back in the short term even more this year. RIP to Reps. Turner and Grijalva, but they both sought election last year while in their 70s and with major health problems. Biden running for a second term is the main reason why any of this is happening to America.
As the cliches go, you have to chose your battles wisely and pick which hills are worth dying on.
A shutdown, besides being disastrous to all sorts of Americans, probably mostly so to those who did not vote for Donald Trump, would have gotten the blame placed on Democrats, making it harder for them to win future elections.
By means, the Senators should vote no if they think the bill is bad, but a filibuster? After saying for four years how dangerous to democracy the filibuster was and how it needs to be done away with? A filibuster allowing the government to be shut down? That would have been a very bad idea. Democrats are in a huge hole and need to stop digging. Letting Trump and his party own their policies should be preferable to them than a government shutdown that Republicans would revel in, and which would have provided Trump even more power as the government was shut down.
Democrats in Trump’s second term are starting to remind me a whole lot of Republicans in Obama’s second term. I watched it happen. I didn’t exactly realize the totality of what was happening until it was too late. Now, it is easier to see it happening.
Win or lose in the short-term, if this continues, many Democrats may find themselves not recognizing their party anymore either.
What I think is that if America sees the only choices as being an angry Cult of Personality backing inept and unpopular policies and a politically inept opposition party also backing unpopular policies, we will continue to move far closer to a demand for something completely different.
As HAS been pointed out by Sabato’s shop?
The ODDS ARE STRONLY Against GOPer’s holding on to the House come 2027….
I agree….
Trump and Musk Keep digging themselves DEEPER into a economuic hole…..
I believe voters WILL be unforgiving and will NOT forget the pain and suffering Trump says he has NO problem with….
Remember ….
Trump 1.0 wasn’t half as bad as right now…
AND?
Ole Joe Biden BEAT HIM…..
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@RepAOC
Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
my only point is the LAST thing the Democrats should want right now, both politically and in the name of curtailing whatever authoritarian moves Trump is making is a government shutdown.
Avoid that at all costs.
That IS what Schumer says…..
Trump shut the government down for 45 days and he’s the newly elected President…..
Schumer IS doing one thing….
Pissing MORE people off at their parties old-timers…..
Schumer IS probably going to lose his job off this….
From Al Gore and Bush II to NOW….
Democrats do NOT get in political fist fights with Republicans….
ole Bernie IS out there playing to thousand’s and Schumer is ducking…..
This is your argument that Democrats should have tried to steal the 2000 election, the way Republicans tried to steal the 2020 election. That kind of mindset would be a huge reason why Democrats are so disliked right now politically.
And POWERLESS, eh?
Works for the GOPer’s….
make NO mistake….
Donald Trump IS hurting ‘his’ party and digging himself and our country into a whole while lawmaklers stand on the edge and watch ….
What? Like now before the next election? I very much doubt that.
I think nearly all Democrat Senators are at least privately very thankful that he is getting them off the hook and taking the slings and arrows from the left for them. They knew how disastrous politically a shutdown would have been for them. What makes it look bad was that he was signaling they were going to fight it out yesterday, only to come face to face with political reality and having to retreat. But better retreat than go off a cliff. Die on the right hills. Not the hills your opposition is salivating for you to fight them on.
Maybe….
But it’s gonna COST Democrats and Schumer….
The fight IS NOW up to the judges….
A year from now GOP House memebers WILL have to start making choices….
And Democrats WILL be on their game….
But THAT IS the future….
We have to watch these clown’s keep at ripping up the Government they hate
People have short memories. They won’t remember Democrats “caved” on a Capitol Hill fight normal people do not even understand or care about.
A government shutdown? That would have affected their lives and MAGA would have won that PR battle six ways to Sunday.
Then, during a shutdown, it only would have let Trump and Musk have even more unchecked “emergency” powers. They were begging for this to happen and Schumer almost gave them their biggest wish.
AOC needs to understand the universe we are living in and put priority on that over her tv hits and social media online engagements.
Yup?
Those who lost their jobs ?
Those who will lose benefits….
Those who will pay MORE for Gas and Food?
Those who watch the MAGA’s parade around Roosater’s?
Yup?
They WIll FORGET?
I do NOT Think so….
I’d like to see over the next 24 hours FIVE Democratc Senator’s come out with NO Votes to DEFY Schumer and Fetterman…..
Catch ya Later CG……
They should ask Bernie to shut up. He isn’t helping them with anything.
The main thing though is just how amazing it was how badly many Democrats wanted to get rid of the filibuster back when they were certain that there would be a Democrat in the White House and now those exact same people are lighting their hair on fire about the filibuster not being used.
They should have seen the big picture back then.
There may be a whole hell of a lot of things that should be filibustered, but doing it to bring about a government shutdown they would have been blamed for is not one of them.
I STRONGLY DISAGREE….
Ole’ Bernie should keep the “RAGE” GOING….
The Saturday MARCH should be BIGGER than advertised ….
We’re back in the 60’s …
People ARE gonna go to the streets as they ALREADY HAVE….
GOPer’s gonna be hiding out…
WAIT….
Things WILL GET WORSE bewfore getting Better…
And of course, now a post went into moderation, so maybe that can be found and posted here, but that’s my cue to leave/