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House dems are PISSED at what Schumer just did. This is the case where outside voices are maximally helpful - when people on the inside of the party want him out. Let's build continued pressure. This will not happen overnight, it will happened when we keep the pressure consistently high

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[โ€“] hallettj@leminal.space 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

These are the Democrats (plus Angus King) who voted to end the filibuster to allow a vote on the budget stopgap bill:

  • Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada
  • Richard J. Durbin - Illinois
  • John Fetterman - Pennsylvania
  • Kirsten Gillibrand - New York
  • Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire
  • Angus King - Maine
  • Gary Peters - Michigan
  • Brian Schatz - Hawaii
  • Chuck Schumer - New York
  • Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire

source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/14/us/politics/senate-government-funding-vote.html

[โ€“] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

These are the Democrats (plus Angus King)

to clarify for others, Angus King is technically an independent but caucuses with dems. Kind of like what Bernie does (except Bernie has a spine and didn't vote for cloture here)