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Crunch time: Democrats ready for shutdown standoff over Republican health cuts (www.theguardian.com)

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Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversed

It has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.

Relegated by voters to the minority in last year’s election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump’s demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans.

That is set to change next week. Funding for the government expires on Tuesday, but Democrats have refused the GOP’s demands to support legislation keeping it open unless the majority agrees to reverse the Medicaid cuts, restore funding to public media and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans.

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[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gay marriage was actually a great one for the dems, it was already popular. They didn’t even push it. They waited until it was safe and then moved it through. Took credit for a public change in perspective that they did not participate in. If they cared about education, they could’ve easily restored it after Bush left, but they conveniently let everyone become illiterate. They’ve always just had really poor stances on guns, never the kind of compromising policy that would actually be entertained by anyone.

We all believe in education, workers rights, civil rights, infrastructure: at least for ourselves. The only people that don’t believe in that shit we keep electing to Office. It’s both sides of the party. They both believe in making a lot of money for the people that donate to them and keep them in power.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are people in office who believe in these things and its the majority of democrats. Its reductionist to just wave that they all don't care. That being said there are some obvious corporate handouts that go on but many of those came from crises that further came from deregulation.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s reductionist to call the government taking your rights away a two party system when one of them is in control and breaking the system. Wake up honey there’s no constitutional law anymore. The democrats are just there to keep you from rioting until 2027. After that it won’t matter.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

Democrats don't stop shit when it comes to rioting anymore than the republicans do. Sounds like you need to wake up. The constitution and the bill of rights are massive compared to the alternative and as much as we all bitch about our system and how good europe/canada/australia may be they all have similar issues and knowledgeable folks over there will point to aspects of our system that they wish they had. I mean we have 27 amendments up from the original 10 which im not sure any other system as as many modification. Granted one is a repeal of another. Like it or not some folks will not do the violence thing regardless. We die all the same so you should at least appreciate that.