Summary
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar insist Democrats should demand major concessions if they help Republicans avoid a government shutdown.
With a narrow three-seat majority, Republicans need Democratic votes to pass a spending bill, but progressives argue the GOP must “sort themselves out” first.
They oppose Republican efforts to slash corporate taxes and gut federal agencies.
Concerns remain that even if Democrats secure agreements, the Trump administration might ignore them. Some moderate Democrats agree that Republicans must take responsibility for funding the government.
The Republicans have been shutting down the government for less for as long as I can remember. If you can’t shut it down when shit getting real that’s just pathetic.
I’m sorry have you met the Democratic party? Pathetic is the only way they know to operate.
No compromise. Shut it down.
I don’t really get this. They don’t need the Democrats to keep the government open, since they have a majority in both chambers. Completely up to the GOP to get the votes lined up.
They need 60 votes- not 50- in the senate. They currently have 52 republicans.
Raising the debt ceiling requires only 50 votes I think. Besides the article is about the house. I don’t see any reason why Dems help out the GOP if they can’t stop defectors.
They’re not even respecting the rule of law, yet they expect them to follow a concession?
Dems shoudl shut down the government before the Republicans have a chance to, except without any precedence for it.
She’s falling back into the old “decorum is important” trap which Republicans stopped believing in back in the nineteen hundredn and ninety five with Newt’s shutdowns.
Stop kicking Lucy’s football, Dems
I disagree, I think it was more like nineteen ninety eight when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table
Oh shittymorph, wherefore art thou?
Fool Democrats once shame on Republicans. Fool Democrats every 4 years…
Fuck me, Democrats still can’t figure this shit out.
Good god, when will the subset of the Democratic Party with actual balls break off and see where voters stand? I’m sick of this limpdick bullshit.
There’s a subset of the Democratic party with balls? I’ve been voting for them for over 20 years and I haven’t seen it yet :(
I find it humorous that when the Dems are the opposition party, they still try to govern…lol
In working democracies that’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s why it’s called opposition not obstruction.
The balance to this is that all parties should be responsible while in the opposition and the party in government shouldn’t try to reform the state according to medieval principles. And this is why American democracy is broken.
but only when all parties play by the rules…
Democrats have never been opposition, they’ve always been collusion
I mean the GOP will need Democrat help to pass a budget.
my sweet summer child, budgets haven’t occured in the united states for nearly 3 decades…we live quarter to quarter with continuing resolutions
Fair enough, but even then Democrat cooperation will be necessary to pass one of those.
Good news! We’re shrinking the size of the federal government. Other good news! We’re leaving the parts that are designed to hurt people.
This was so true back when it aired, and is true now
Only some Democrats agree? What the fuck are they putting in the water there. Jesus Christ.
It really doesn’t seem like Republicans want to keep the government going.
Republicans may see a shutdown as another opportunity to devolve power from the legislature to the executive branch.
As much as it will suck for the people, I feel like shutting down the government may be the best move to stop the current administration from tearing it apart further.
I want no tax cuts. If they’re serious about the deficit (they’re not) then more tax cuts for the rich make no sense. A fair compromise would be some modest budget cuts and no tax cuts to shrink the deficit.
Id also like to see some more transparency and oversight into President Elon, and maybe some guardrails.
She says this once a week.
So this is how we get anarchy finally?
No, the hierarchy supported by violence will still exist (they’ll call them ‘essential’ and exempt from the shutdown), citizens will just have even less representation in how it’s run
How do we tell them to shut it all down?
Won’t fElon just continue paying Republicans anyway and just not pay the Democrats?
