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.
I don’t know what spot you think I have in society but when it comes to a choice between better or worse I choose better. What specific action did you take that if everyone took would solve all this? I voted for the better choice and I think if everyone had we would not have had reagan and bush jr and trump. We would still have regulation (and not have the economic collapses from deregulation) and 911 would not have happened (clinton/gore were well aware of al kaida as a danger) and we would be working globally on the environment and climate change.