Both Sides: Why we don't fuck with the GOP
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MAGA doesn't think things through! Type of people that think masturbation is the equivalent to actual sex
But this could've been avoided LAST NOVEMBER!!!!!
...does he think she should've been ON the ballot?!?!?!
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Urgent: Senate Dems Consider Folding On Govt. Shutdown
The Dems are pissing off my future ex-wife.
Urgent: Senate Dems Consider Folding On Govt. Shutdown
The Dems are pissing off my future ex-wife.
Spines just made of Play-Doh. Ol' get a good hand at the poker table and literally piss themselves ass bastards
Why do they keep trying to use this ?uestion??? He WON his race!!! You don't give advice to winners! You TAKE advice FROM winners!!!!! "Hey Caleb Williams, what advice would you give Patrick Mahomes?" "...THE FCUK I LOOK LIKE GIVING HIM ADVICE FOR HE WON THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!"
$2k will get a lot of them back in place -just like during the pandemic...
he is desperate
$2k will get a lot of them back in place -just like during the pandemic...
he is desperate
THEY cannot continue to be this naive?
context of white supremacy
how you feel about the Mamdani win?
bro I don't know if it will work but think it was important in the current political and social climate for THAT guy to win.
And the voter turnout was good and across the board the democrats did OK
so to me? ALL positives
Hopefully he is able to implement at least ONE thing on his agenda successfully.
We will soon see.
In a stark reflection of how split this deal has left Senate Democrats, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said he would oppose the spending package. His counterpart, Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said he was backing it.
“I appreciate that this proposal includes important language preventing further mass layoffs of federal employees,” Warner said in a statement. “That’s a critical step in protecting our public servants from this administration’s campaign of retribution, and something I’ve long pushed for. But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.”
“I appreciate that this proposal includes important language preventing further mass layoffs of federal employees,” Warner said in a statement. “That’s a critical step in protecting our public servants from this administration’s campaign of retribution, and something I’ve long pushed for. But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.”
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, upbraided Republican leaders for refusing to negotiate with them on health care subsidies. He said he would vote against the deal some members of the Senate Democratic caucus have brokered, because “this health care crisis is so severe.”
“Make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this health care trauma,” Schumer said. “Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Americans will remember Republican intransigence every time they make a sky high payment on health insurance.”
“Make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this health care trauma,” Schumer said. “Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Americans will remember Republican intransigence every time they make a sky high payment on health insurance.”
The Senate began voting on Sunday evening to advance legislation to reopen the government after negotiators said a critical bloc of Democratic senators had given their assent.
Emerging from a closed-door meeting on Sunday evening, Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire and Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, said they had secured the votes on their side for a compromise spending package that would fund most federal agencies through January, potentially ending weeks of gridlock that has left the government shuttered for 40 days.
Mr. King said that the length of the shutdown and the pain it was inflicting on Americans had changed the calculus for some of his Democratic colleagues, pushing them to support a deal with Republicans that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.
“I think people were saying ‘We’re not going to get what we want,’ although we still have a chance,” Mr. King said, noting that the group secured a commitment by Republicans to hold a vote on whether to extend the subsidies. “But in the meantime, a lot of people are being hurt.”
Their announcement indicated that Republicans, who have been unable to push through a temporary spending bill over Democratic opposition, would finally be able to cobble together the 60 votes needed to do so, though reopening the government could still take some time.
An evening test vote during a rare Sunday session was expected to pave the way for the agreement to begin making its way through Congress, where it would still need to be debated and passed by the Senate, win approval in the House and be signed by President Trump to bring the shutdown to a close.
“It looks like we’re getting very close to the shutdown ending,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.
On Capitol Hill, a critical Democratic convert, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, said on Sunday that evening he would back the deal after securing a provisions in the temporary spending bill to reverse layoffs made during the shutdown and ensure furloughed workers would receive back pay.
“This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings, reinstate those who have been wrongfully terminated during the shutdown, and ensure federal workers receive back pay, as required by a law I got passed in 2019,” Mr. Kaine said in a statement. “That’s a critical step.”
But Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader who had held his party together for weeks as they sought a deal to protect the health care subsidies, exited the closed-door party gathering and declared tersely: “I am a no.”
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, also said that House Democrats would not back any such deal.
“Donald Trump and the Republican Party own the toxic mess they have created in our country, and the American people know it,” he said in a statement.
Still, were the plan to pass the Senate, House Democrats would have no chance of defeating it if Republicans held together in support.
The Democratic retreat reopened the deep fissures within the party that emerged in March, when a bloc of Democratic senators, led by Mr. Schumer, voted with Republicans to keep the government open, prompting a progressive backlash.
The shift this time was particularly remarkable given that the legislation Republicans have offered does not address Democrats’ main demand in the shutdown fight: the extension of health insurance tax credits that are slated to expire at the end of the year.
Instead, the Democratic splinter group appeared to have received a commitment from Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, to allow a vote in December on extending the tax credits for a year. Many Democrats have said for weeks that such a pledge would be insufficient to win them over, since such a bill has appeared all but certain to die in the Republican-led Congress.
The core of the compromise that now appears to be on the brink of moving ahead is a spending package that is the product of negotiations among a group of moderate senators in both parties. It includes a new stopgap measure that would fund the government through January, plus three separate spending bills to cover programs related to agriculture, military construction and legislative agencies for most of 2026.
Those three bills, released on Sunday by the Senate Appropriations Committee, omit most of the deep spending cuts that Mr. Trump had proposed in his budget this year.
Still, the deal was causing intense consternation across wide swaths of Democrats, from progressives to moderates.
Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, said any retreat from the party’s demands on health care would be “a policy and political disaster.”
Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, a moderate who was initially involved in the bipartisan talks, also sounded deeply dissatisfied.
“I always said we’ve got to do something concrete on health care, and it’s hard to see how that happened,” she said on Sunday evening as she entered a closed-door party meeting to discuss the deal.
Democrats had agonized privately for days over whether to prolong the shutdown or find a quick bipartisan compromise. Many of them had made the case that their party’s victories in last week’s elections in New York, New Jersey and Virginia reflected that their fight was resonating with voters and suggested that they must show they were continuing to press to lower health care costs.
But centrists in the party believed that the spiraling effects of the shutdown — including hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers, millions of Americans at risk of losing food assistance and the threat of widespread air traffic disruptions — meant that blocking the funding bills had grown untenable.
The spending package would, however, reject some of Mr. Trump’s spending proposals. While he has moved to eliminate the Food for Peace program, which sends surplus American crops to communities around the world that are experiencing famine and starvation, the bill would provide $1.2 billion for the program, which many Republicans hailing from farm states have championed.
Negotiators in the Senate also shut down a bid by House Republicans to hobble the Government Accountability Office, a roughly century-old agency formed to help Congress keep track of federal spending. The G.A.O. has twice determined this year that Mr. Trump’s actions violated rules that prohibit him from unilaterally canceling funding, and the agency is allowed under existing law to sue to force a president to release illegally withheld funds.
While the House had proposed to halve funding for the agency, the Senate-written measure would keep its funding flat. The measure also jettisoned a provision by House Republicans that sought to bar the agency from suing the White House in the future.
Still, the package omits any mention of the health care subsidies that Democrats made a centerpiece of the shutdown fight. They had spent weeks demanding that Republicans agree to permanently extend the tax credits in exchange for their votes to fund the government, a condition that the G.O.P. refused to meet.
On Friday, Mr. Schumer had scaled back that demand, saying Democrats would vote to reopen the government if the legislation included an extension of the health tax credits for just one year.
Republicans immediately rejected that proposal as well, calling it a nonstarter.
“I think people were saying ‘We’re not going to get what we want,’ although we still have a chance,” Mr. King said, noting that the group secured a commitment by Republicans to hold a vote on whether to extend the subsidies. “But in the meantime, a lot of people are being hurt.”
Their announcement indicated that Republicans, who have been unable to push through a temporary spending bill over Democratic opposition, would finally be able to cobble together the 60 votes needed to do so, though reopening the government could still take some time.
An evening test vote during a rare Sunday session was expected to pave the way for the agreement to begin making its way through Congress, where it would still need to be debated and passed by the Senate, win approval in the House and be signed by President Trump to bring the shutdown to a close.
“It looks like we’re getting very close to the shutdown ending,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.
On Capitol Hill, a critical Democratic convert, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, said on Sunday that evening he would back the deal after securing a provisions in the temporary spending bill to reverse layoffs made during the shutdown and ensure furloughed workers would receive back pay.
“This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings, reinstate those who have been wrongfully terminated during the shutdown, and ensure federal workers receive back pay, as required by a law I got passed in 2019,” Mr. Kaine said in a statement. “That’s a critical step.”
But Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader who had held his party together for weeks as they sought a deal to protect the health care subsidies, exited the closed-door party gathering and declared tersely: “I am a no.”
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, also said that House Democrats would not back any such deal.
“Donald Trump and the Republican Party own the toxic mess they have created in our country, and the American people know it,” he said in a statement.
Still, were the plan to pass the Senate, House Democrats would have no chance of defeating it if Republicans held together in support.
The Democratic retreat reopened the deep fissures within the party that emerged in March, when a bloc of Democratic senators, led by Mr. Schumer, voted with Republicans to keep the government open, prompting a progressive backlash.
The shift this time was particularly remarkable given that the legislation Republicans have offered does not address Democrats’ main demand in the shutdown fight: the extension of health insurance tax credits that are slated to expire at the end of the year.
Instead, the Democratic splinter group appeared to have received a commitment from Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, to allow a vote in December on extending the tax credits for a year. Many Democrats have said for weeks that such a pledge would be insufficient to win them over, since such a bill has appeared all but certain to die in the Republican-led Congress.
The core of the compromise that now appears to be on the brink of moving ahead is a spending package that is the product of negotiations among a group of moderate senators in both parties. It includes a new stopgap measure that would fund the government through January, plus three separate spending bills to cover programs related to agriculture, military construction and legislative agencies for most of 2026.
Those three bills, released on Sunday by the Senate Appropriations Committee, omit most of the deep spending cuts that Mr. Trump had proposed in his budget this year.
Still, the deal was causing intense consternation across wide swaths of Democrats, from progressives to moderates.
Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, said any retreat from the party’s demands on health care would be “a policy and political disaster.”
Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, a moderate who was initially involved in the bipartisan talks, also sounded deeply dissatisfied.
“I always said we’ve got to do something concrete on health care, and it’s hard to see how that happened,” she said on Sunday evening as she entered a closed-door party meeting to discuss the deal.
Democrats had agonized privately for days over whether to prolong the shutdown or find a quick bipartisan compromise. Many of them had made the case that their party’s victories in last week’s elections in New York, New Jersey and Virginia reflected that their fight was resonating with voters and suggested that they must show they were continuing to press to lower health care costs.
But centrists in the party believed that the spiraling effects of the shutdown — including hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers, millions of Americans at risk of losing food assistance and the threat of widespread air traffic disruptions — meant that blocking the funding bills had grown untenable.
The spending package would, however, reject some of Mr. Trump’s spending proposals. While he has moved to eliminate the Food for Peace program, which sends surplus American crops to communities around the world that are experiencing famine and starvation, the bill would provide $1.2 billion for the program, which many Republicans hailing from farm states have championed.
Negotiators in the Senate also shut down a bid by House Republicans to hobble the Government Accountability Office, a roughly century-old agency formed to help Congress keep track of federal spending. The G.A.O. has twice determined this year that Mr. Trump’s actions violated rules that prohibit him from unilaterally canceling funding, and the agency is allowed under existing law to sue to force a president to release illegally withheld funds.
While the House had proposed to halve funding for the agency, the Senate-written measure would keep its funding flat. The measure also jettisoned a provision by House Republicans that sought to bar the agency from suing the White House in the future.
Still, the package omits any mention of the health care subsidies that Democrats made a centerpiece of the shutdown fight. They had spent weeks demanding that Republicans agree to permanently extend the tax credits in exchange for their votes to fund the government, a condition that the G.O.P. refused to meet.
On Friday, Mr. Schumer had scaled back that demand, saying Democrats would vote to reopen the government if the legislation included an extension of the health tax credits for just one year.
Republicans immediately rejected that proposal as well, calling it a nonstarter.
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