Originally published at: Most House Dems Still Opposed to Helping Fund DHS - TPM – Talking Points Memo
After discussions with the White House, Senate Democrats were successful in convincing their Republican colleagues to split up a six-bill appropriations package into two chunks that passed the upper chamber in a 71-29 vote on Friday evening. Now the package — a five-bill appropriations minibus plus a two-week continuing resolution on funding the Department of…
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If you work for the public, you are accountable to the public. Your home address and your username on the dating apps might be considered private, but your name and face are not. Certainly not while you’re doing the work at the public.
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So, Republicans want to “pass a law” that “noncitizens” cannot vote in Federal elections. This ought to be grounds to vote them out, since this has already been the law of the land for centuries.
Somebody ought to tell their constituents about it.
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Here’s the thing for me:
The existing red Reprehensibles aren’t blind to what happened in Texas this weekend with the two special elections. They can’t be blind to it, because it’s coming for them.
Massie will probably lead a small contingent of colleagues that are smart enough to see the handwriting on the wall that says they may be looking for work in early 2027 because they’re getting kicked out in 2026.
We don’t need many to switch sides on this and it’s real popular in public opinion on both sides of the aisle. I know they have the power to disappoint us yet again and the seven Dems that did the deed two weeks ago have most likely gotten an earful. I don’t count on Jeffries to do the right thing with his caucus, even though more recently he’s been a bit fired up.
But this thing has to drag on for a bit and the Dems have to get the things they want out of this if it’s going to pass. No more of this, well, pass it now and we’ll talk later. No, sir.
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Thank you for starting a new comment thread. A live stream should restart each day. One person’s opinion
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“even the short-term CR negotiated by their colleagues in the Senate.”
Which, by the way, should be understood by every sane person on this planet as the abysmal failure and betrayal that it was.
A gov’t turned on its people MUST NOT be funded. Period. I am not a monster. I am not throwing anyone under the bus or failing to consider the ramifications of a prolonged shutdown battle over the funding of a rogue paramilitary ethnic-cleansing force. None of the people who are most vulnerable and would be first to feel the pain of a protracted shutdown will be any better off if a gov’t turned on them receives funding to act out its plans to abuse them further. It would be our responsibility to fill the gaps as their community members, but funding SHOULD NOT have happened. In fact, the funding DHS/ICE/CBP already has should be clawed back.
Instead of “you shall not pass” we have a Dem Senate caucus led by Chief Flower Girl Schumer sprinkling petals on the ground for the KKKristofascists’ jackboots to goose-step on while they march towards permanent rulership via apartheid and plutocracy.
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Part of what Trump typed:
“There can be no changes… We work together in good faith”
WTF am I not understanding?
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The Republicans have built themselves a nice little bear trap that has got them in its grips. One jaw are the Democrats that will have nothing to with Republican’s insistence on ICE criminality and the other jaw are their very own demanding very insane wingy legislators. I can safely say that it anyone deserves if, Mike Johnson does.
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The constituents believe noncitizens can vote in Federal elections because they have been told they can by fools who call themselves social media influencers as well as members of the right wing media.
While they might be allowed to vote locally in a few city elections I don’t know of any state tha allows a non-citizen to vote. Do you?
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Alongside some Democrats, a handful far-right House Republicans are also opposing the Senate-passed deal, saying they will not vote for it unless leadership attaches the SAVE Act — a bill that aims to stop noncitizens from voting in elections, something that is already illegal in federal elections — to the funding package.
That’s not what the SAVE Act does. It attaches onerous identity documents requirements to voting in Federal elections, that would disenfranchise a substantial number of minority citizens, as well as married women who took their husbands’ surnames when they married. It’s a way to disenfranchise voters; it in no way Safeguards American Voter Eligibility - it slashes it.
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Mike Johnson indicates that he “thinks he has the votes,” but one wonders what his Porn Meter says…
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Thanks for bringing up the women! Yes, the Republicans seem to have been opposed to women getting to vote in recent years: even some female Republican candidates. Being able to produce one’s “birth certificate” and have the same name as it shows – well, that cuts out the majority of women who are or have been married. Bring along every last marriage license, too? And divorce or anullment decrees from in between? Seriously? Who has those on hand?
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They want to go back to the 18th century, when only white, male xtian landowners got to vote. No browns, no wimmenfolk, and none of those with furriner-sounding names.
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More like Anna Paulina LunaTIC, amirite?
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I don’t know if it was true in every colony or (between 1783 and 1800) state, but certainly Jews (many of whom had "furriner-sounding names) could and did vote in the colonies of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and probably New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Pulaski, a Pole, was a hero of the Revolution, and many counties were named after him even in the South. You’re probably right that a lot of Republicans imagine that only Christians voted in colonial America, but that’s just their willful ignorance. They are also ignorant of how few nominal Christians actually attended church regularly in the days of the Revolution and early years of the nation. The Great Awakening got its name from our country’s Christians having fallen into a religious slumber.