What’s the point?
avert a government shutdown next weekend and keep the government open through Dec. 22.
Why not just vote for the next day’s funding at the end of each day?
GOP Conservatives believe they’re being set up for a pre-Christmas deal they won’t like? I’ll be dammed, we finally have something in common
Republicans are in charge of all branches of government currently. Surely they can accomplish its most basic purpose of keeping itself open? Or can they? I hope the Dems step aside so we can find out. Because if they can’t, Dems should and will ask for their pound of flesh. Frankly, a party that can’t keep government functioning shouldn’t be in charge.
The Democrats need to stop helping the Trump GOP destroy our country without a firm inclusion of DACA legislation. After the tax hike bill, the Democrats need to show the GOP can’t govern beyond delivering tax cuts to the rich. Just say no. All the time.
Yep. Republicans just passed an atrocious tax bill on a strictly GOP vote. If they want to keep the government open, they can do that on a strictly GOP vote too.
The Democratic leadership should tell McConnell and Ryan that we’ll be happy to vote to keep the government open if the tax bill fails(1), otherwise the GOP can try to keep it open with votes from their own caucus.
Frankly, a shutdown caused by GOP incompetence probably works to Democrats advantage better than anything the Republican leadership could give us - particularly since Trump will probably refuse to implement or enforce any concessions the GOP makes to Democrats anyway.
(1) Remember, the tax bill still has to get through either reconciliation, or a House vote as currently written, before it goes to Trump’s desk.
Excellent thinking. The Democrats can hold a news conference and publicize their price for supporting any GOP bill to keep the government open. They literally have no other leverage. None.
Let Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell find the votes within the Republican party to keep the Government open. Not one Democrat should do so without major concessions. The Republicans desecrated the legislative process by passing the Deficit Increase/Tax Giveaway to the Rich Bill, without any input from the Democrats. Let them do this as on their own as well.
I just hope they can get me my tax cut …
Before they start fighting again —
So Republicans are going to extend the Obama budget a second time. Trump budget was to take over Oct 1 but they now want to let it go until Dec 22.
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I just hope they can get me my tax cut …
Before they start fighting again –
[/quote]And they can get us that better, cheaper health care for everyone after the first of the year.
Firm inclusion? Two words : Lucy and Football.
Require passage of DACA before voting the funding, Flake has already been promised a seat at the table,
Input? I wonder what percentage of Senators, GOP or Dem, had much of a notion what was in the bill they passed.
DACA and CHIP.
Longest road in in the country.
The one they keep kicking the can down for how many years now?
Super tough can I must say, kryptonite possibly. lol
I don’t like it. The GOP wants the tax bill at any cost. The leadership would love Dems to make this threat, because it will help them keep their freedom-caucus types in line on a vote to keep the government open.
My view is based on the assumption that the GOP won’t need Dem votes to pass the tax bill. There will be GOP representatives who know that a “yes” vote would doom them in 2018, but there aren’t enough of them. Even some of them will vote “yes.”
Remember when governing included an annual budget? The GOP believed in that idea until Obama was elected, then they tried to extort Obama and us every quarter.
The GOP has both Houses and the presidency and STILL refuses to go back to an annual budget. I guess they’ve just decided to get rid of regular order and opt for the new chaos. Funny thing is as much as they talk about uncertainty when it comes to the economy and business, THIS is an unnecessary and easily-fixed uncertainty and they refuse to eliminate it.
Rs - “Just in time for Merry Christmas!”
Anyone with half a brain knows Ryan is full of shit—he doesn’t have the votes. It is irresponsible of the media not to call him on his smokescreen bullshit.