Senate Democrats on Monday rejected a GOP-led stopgap funding bill for the 11th time as the shutdown heads into its fourth week.
Senators voted 50-43 on the House-passed bill, which would fund the government through Nov. 21. Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine were the only senators who broke rank to vote to advance the bill. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) did not vote.
Good. Dont fund Trump, period
Realistically any deal should at a minimum require the president actually follow the law. If that is too high a bar for the conservatives to clear then what is the point of working with them?
And actually swear in the rep from.AZ
Yeah, I love their “Just reopen the government and we’ll vote on what you want.” lie. Said as if they haven’t just been letting Trump illegally say no to any funding he doesn’t like. Why should they fund anything if he can just turn around and yoink the money after they’ve appropriated it.
Any deal should involve a bullet to his head
GOP will build a ballroom of gold before you get healthcare.
The GOP needs to …remember remember the fourth of December….every time they strip the working class of healthcare
So does this mean there are 7 abstentions, any one of whom, including Fetterman, could potentially push the total to 51, which is all they need?
We really are hanging on by the slimmest thread. Honestly I hope they don’t pass a funding bill until midterms.
Nah, this bill needs 60 to come to the floor. This isn’t one of the things that can be brought up by simple majority.
That’s a relief. I thought this was a reconciliation bill or something.
Nah the “Big Beautiful Bill” was their reconciliation package. As I understand it and I might be wrong because US Congressional procedures are arcane AF by design, reconciliation can only be used to deal with the debt limit once a year and they already did it this year. My understanding is there’s 3 situations that reconciliation can be used for, but each can only be used once a year. Any other changes have to be made through the usual budget process. Since this is a fight over a stopgap funding measure it has to follow the usual procedure and needs 60 votes.
That’s my understanding as well, so it not being a reconciliation pretty much means this fucker is never getting passed. At least not until they make enough concessions for the Dems, which I’ll be honest I don’t want concessions. I want them to withdraw their participation in this government other than to vote no on everything.
They won’t do that, but that’s my wish.
They are absolutely going to change the rules sometime very soon
That’d definitely be the signal that even the opportunist types in the Republican caucus don’t think they’ll ever have to worry about elections ever again. Threatening a shutdown over a stopgap funding measure is one of their favorite tactics. They’d never give that up unless they thought they would never actually be out of power again.
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