Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversed
It has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.
Relegated by voters to the minority in last year’s election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump’s demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans.
That is set to change next week. Funding for the government expires on Tuesday, but Democrats have refused the GOP’s demands to support legislation keeping it open unless the majority agrees to reverse the Medicaid cuts, restore funding to public media and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans.
Doge and Trump have been working hard at shutting down everything the government does that actually serves the citizens despite having the funds. But at the same time they’re spending trillions in making the country a fascist nightmare with secret police and concentration camps.
What’s the downside to a shutdown?
Actually, does a shutdown inadvertently defund ICE, at least temporarily?
unlikely. Essential personnel and all.
I don’t know how it would work specifically, but I do worry that there will be some way that they can use the shutdown to further consolidate power. I’m sure these devious fucks will find a way.
They’re not intelligent, per se, but they do have a sort of low cunning that terrifies me.
Trump is a fucking idiot.
But many of the others are very intelligent. When Trump dies on the toilet they’ll appear way more sophisticated when they aren’t having to fellate him while pursuing their evil agenda.
Add to it that President Trump has been ignoring the funding allocated through congress. Even if the Democrats negotiate the perfect deal, President Trump could simply not spend the money.