I fucking dare them to. The monicker “Do Nothing Democrats” turned out to be true. The last six weeks have been the worst five years of our lives.
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I didn't y think they had the power?
Republicans have the votes to get their agenda passed on any strict party line vote. But the margins are extremely thin. In the House in particular, right now due to vacancies Republicans can only afford to lose a single vote. If two Republicans vote with all Democrats against something, the vote fails.
So, if Republicans can't keep their caucus in lock-step on these votes, they would need a few Democratic votes instead. Democrats are entirely justified to demand some things in exchange for those votes. They can't demand the world, but can demand specific, targeted things. Reining in DOGE should be item 1 for them.
And Democrats have to be careful, because if they start these negotiations for support and they go nowhere, Republicans can go to their people and say "Democrats are shutting down the government", and they will believe it. When in reality it is Republican infighting that is shutting it down, since they can't keep their own caucus together on this.
Republicans can go to their people and say "Democrats are shutting down the government", and they will believe it.
This specifically will happen regardless of what democrats do
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It's party policy to only weild the power afforded to them by their constituents every other Tuesday.
Why do they need funding? FElong has saved the government trillions by now.
Are they going to count down from three before they do it, so we know they mean it this time?
Democrats don't usually force shutdowns because the people most likely to suffer under a shutdown are federal, state, and local government employees, people who work in academia, and people in major metropolitan areas, all of whom make up a significant portion of the Democratic base. It doesn't make sense to force a shutdown if your own voters are just going to blame you for the disruption it causes to their lives anyway.
Now there's far more to lose, and Trump is going to get the blame for it. Shutdown for a few weeks to protect a few hundred thousand federal workers for at least a year is a pretty safe gamble when you're not likely to get blamed for the short-term disruption anyway.
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