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Pissed At What Chuck Just Got Through? Call Your Senators (if Dems) and Tell Them to Remove Him From Senate Leadership (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by BaldProphet@piefed.social to c/50501@piefed.social

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Cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/27194393:

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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[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

The big problem with a gov shutdown is, somehow, the US populace can sniff out who caused it (according to a politics podcast I listen to.) So if democrats collectively stood their ground it very likely would have looked bad for them, not republicans.

I honestly don’t know which outcome, shutdown or no, would have been better. Like others are saying, supposedly a shutdown government would have also given Trump/Musk power to do things without congressional oversight. It’s a shitty situation either way.