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.
It’s reductionist to call the government taking your rights away a two party system when one of them is in control and breaking the system. Wake up honey there’s no constitutional law anymore. The democrats are just there to keep you from rioting until 2027. After that it won’t matter.
Democrats don’t stop shit when it comes to rioting anymore than the republicans do. Sounds like you need to wake up. The constitution and the bill of rights are massive compared to the alternative and as much as we all bitch about our system and how good europe/canada/australia may be they all have similar issues and knowledgeable folks over there will point to aspects of our system that they wish they had. I mean we have 27 amendments up from the original 10 which im not sure any other system as as many modification. Granted one is a repeal of another. Like it or not some folks will not do the violence thing regardless. We die all the same so you should at least appreciate that.