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Democratic senators voting in favor:
- Dick Durbin (Illinois)
- Angus King (Maine, independent caucusing with Democrats)
- Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire)
- Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada)
- Jacky Rosen (Nevada)
- John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)
- Tim Kaine (Virginia)
ugh. durbins a lame duck and I guess this is what he wants his legacy to be.
The Senate, however, is expected to leave for a previously scheduled weeklong recess as soon as it can clear the funding package for the House, which could incentivize lawmakers not to hold up the process.
Why work when you already get paid for doing absolutely nothing?
This is not the first time voting became a priority before vacation gets cancelled.
They have vacation plans that can’t be just ruined because some poors will lose access to healthcare, 85% of their campaign is funded by 5 people and they all have amazing healthcare.
OK, this is starting to make sense.
The deal says "You have to put the ACA subsidies to a vote by December. In return, we'll fund the government until January."
So they're not giving up their leverage, because if the Republicans fuck around the Dems can just slam the brakes on again right away. Meanwhile it puts the ball squarely in the Republicans court to actually do something about this issue that is raising healthcare prices for people all across America. It puts the focus on the Republican controlled House, and on Trump, letting the public really see who is fighting for them and who isn't.
I know it's easy to assume that this is another example of Shumer caving (God only knows, he does it so much I'm starting to think his spine is a paper straw), but looking at the details I'm starting to think this is actually a solid play.
Disagree.
Democrats have the leverage now, and there isn't any reason why Republicans can't put a temporary extension in the ACA credits now anyway.
Buying time does nothing for democrats but gives Republicans slack to change the focus before committing to anything. This is a cowardly backpeddle, not a calculated maneuver
The deal is government opens. That's it.
Democrats just voted for that. That's it.
There is no assumption. The vote already happened.
I know it’s easy to assume that this is another example of Shumer caving
People are going to, but Schumer is at least saying he's against it, and wasn't one of the votes.
He's not a leader, he was there to relay orders from the DNC to politicians, and any "power" he had with that was the DNC bankrupting someone's state party if they refused to obey.
Without a corrupt DNC backing him, no one cares what Schumer says/thinks.
It's a big reason why Schumer needs replaced in leadership asap.
He's completely useless, so we might as well give it to a young/popular senator. Someone that Dem voters like at least. Everytime Schumer steps in front of a mic, it depresses Dem turnout.
Quick edit:
To be clear, this is how every neoliberal "led".
And why I hate people saying "Well, Pelosi was good at whipping votes"...
She was just willing to bankrupt entire state parties handing seats to republicans if anyone with a D by their name didn't do what the neoliberala running the DNC wanted.
That was never a good thing.
But now we're returning to a bottom-up structure. Where elected reps answer to voters, and all the DNC does is run unbiased primaries every four years and ensures the state parties are funded enough to compete.
We don't want a powerful DNC, that's been the problem for 30-50 years now....
Among what others said, it specifically doesn't require the House to return to vote before it gets the chance to oust a Dem seat and keep the Epstein vote right where Mikey wants it.
When it comes down to it they don't want to shoulder the bad guy thing for the holidays. Problem is that folks have to decide on getting healthcare by end of november.
How would the Democrats "slam the brakes" exactly?
They're giving up a big part of it. They're funding several different departments through 2026.