• Botzo@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Come on Dems, this is like the house speaker vote. It’s up to them to pass it. Don’t give in to their messaging. In fact, be better. Do your own messaging.

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    Looks like the dems are planning to pass the Republican spending bill

    That’s not what the article says. Only 1 dem voted in favor in the house out of 214. A number of senate dems have come out against the CR, and more keep going that way. Plus Rand Paul has also said he’ll vote no. For some reason, republicans aren’t using reconciliation (which would only need a strict majority for budget bills) so it goes to the filibuster which requires 60 votes and thus 7 flips without republican defections, 8 if you count Ran Paul’s pledged defection

    Call you senator if they haven’t said what they plan to do, floods of calls will matter here a lot

    https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

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      My guess is they’re saving their reconciliation bill for something bigger than a continuing resolution. Congress as a whole is limited to just three a year, and only one of them can be about spending. Kicking the can down the road a couple months seems like a horribly inefficient use for reconciliation.

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      If they were smart id say this is some plan to make the dems responsible for the shut down and blame economic crashes on that.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s my read. They don’t actually care about shutting down the government, they just don’t want to be the one responsible for it.