Originally published at: A Possible Gov’t Funding Deal Comes Into View — As Trump’s Lawlessness Looms
With about three weeks remaining in the current fiscal year, senators are scrambling to find a way to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2026. A short-term continuing resolution (CR) continues to be the most realistic option for Republicans — who have the majority in both the House and Senate — to avoid a…
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Alternative Headline: Democrats offer surrender in advance.
The only Democrat making sense is Murphy:
“We passed a CR in March and the President didn’t pay any attention to it. The budget, whether it’s a CR or not, isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if the President is going to act illegally and refuse to spend the money that’s in it,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told reporters on Tuesday, giving voice to the concern that he raised repeatedly over the summer.
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Quoting Mike Johnson from the story above: “… I don’t think we should be subsidizing high-income earners….”
Do you think Muppet Mike is going to bring back the BBB to revise the portion giving huge tax cuts to the Billionaires?
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Hmmmm…since the Supremes just said Trump Co. can halt foreign aid after it had ALREADY been appropriated why should we ever believe a single word he utters? The SIX just rubber stamp him. Constitution indeed.
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With about three weeks remaining in the current fiscal year, senators are scrambling to find a way to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2026.
Why bother?
We’ve seen what the federal government is doing to destroy this country and its inhabitants. WTF should Democrats have any hand in funding what we’ve seen already this year? If Democrats are looking for a positive image to sell to voters heading into the midterms, it should be that Democrats stopped funding illegal mass deportations, stopped funding violations of international law, stopped back-stabbing our allies, stopped sucking up to the world’s worst dictators, stopped funding mis-information from the CDC…(the list goes on and on!). Stop funding what T rumpp is doing to this country!!!
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Start with this- Permanent extension of subsidy and fully fund Medicaid.
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premiums are gonna absolutely skyrocket
Why are doctors always pushing for raises, raises, raises? More money. Never enough. What, doctors don’t have enough boats? Need to pay the new Mar-a-Lago membership fee?
What? It’s not for doctors?
Well, it ain’t for research programs. They don’t exist anymore. So, where’s our money going?
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although probably some of that money goes to the doctors’ malpractice insurance - it’s very very expensive
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Of course, to lawyers ; - )
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Time for Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter!
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The seven largest publicly traded U.S. health insurance companies made a collective $71.3 billion in profits last year, and their CEOs took home a total of $146.1 million in compensation, according to an analysis released Wednesday by an ex-industry executive.
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Diagnostic centers. Do you know how much money an MD can make with a partial share of an MRI clinic along with other doctors, and you’re all referring patients to that clinic?
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Dumb as shit. The only way to effect any change here is to refuse altogether. Show the GOP for how weak they are.
No compromise. Compromise is capitulation.
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If John Roberts’ intention was to restore respect and faith in the SCOTUS, he has failed miserably. The notion that the conservatives on the court are “originalists” and non-political is utter bull shit.
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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Yep. Put a CT scanner in a back room, all the doctors chip in on the expense, and make sure anyone over 65 is scanned every single time they attend, then send the bill to Medicare.
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More like Dems shoot themselves in both feet in preparation for surrendering in advance. These idiots simply do not know how to fight a war. They are clueless and completely out of their element in this battle to save democracy. I can’t even be mad at Dem leadership anymore. They are nice enough people. It’s just that they are not in any way suited to lead a people in war. They are not warriors or fighters. They have no fight, no cunning, no foresight, no feel for the shape of the battlefield, no sense for the pulse of the people, and no spine. On top of this, they are fearful, second-guessers, jelly-backed Neville Chamberlins who take every opportunity to appease these despicable Republicans. Not a one of these Dems has shown any ability to lead the American people in this existential battle for our democracy. It saddens me to admit this, but it is true. We need a new American champion for our democracy, someone with the fight of FDR or Churchill, someone who is willing to declare war on all these Republican Nazis and call this what it is, a war for to save our democracy from the same Nazis and their ideology that we thought we had defeated in 1945. I just hope to live long enough to see it and fight alongside a true Democratic fighter.
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You’re right. But that takes courage. And the only thing Democrats seem brave enough to do is take AIPAC money and ask their handlers how they’re allowed to vote. Israel sure as fuck won’t allow any of them to so much as say “violations of international law” much less vote against it.
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So the Dems are going to use the leverage they have to… save Republicans from the consequences of a budget mistake they made all on their own without any Dem votes.
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This!
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exactly!
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