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I think it’s time for congress to have their retirement and benefits gutted
Looks like Jared Golden needs to be primaried
We should really get do-overs on our votes when people misrepresent how they are going to vote. The Fetterman I'm getting is quite the opposite of the one I was sold...
On the upside, the CR is dead for now, no thanks to Fetterman.
The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to pass a short-term funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month.
Earlier, continuing resolution (CR) cleared the House, but ultimately stalled in the upper chamber – unable to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster.
Democrats remain resolute that they will continue to block any bill if it doesn’t include significant amendments to health care provisions. Today, senator John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, was the lone Democrat to vote for the GOP-drawn CR. While Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky, joined their colleagues across the aisle and voted no.
While fetterman was campaigning lots of us projected quite accurately who he was going to become
Yeah, I know there's been a lot of told-ya-sos, but he tricked enough of us. I'm still glad he's there rather than Oz, but I hate all these shit people running such a good chunk of the state. PA is pretty cool, and even a lot of the MAGAs I know aren't usually the worst people, I just hate when they get the power to back up their dumbass talk. I just think we deserve better as a state. But I guess pretty much every state is in a similar mess right now...
The poor choices go back further than Oz/Fetterman
He ain't no Golden boy that's for sure.
Chuckie and the rest of you bunch that folded last time. Hope you had your spine implanted over the summer:
It's criminal that we can't recall a senator or a congressman.
I was gonna cheer on a federal shutdown until it occurred to me that the worst parts of the federal government will certainly be exempted
Still hoping for it though. This government does not deserve to be funded.
Shut it down. Though as I understand they all still get paid.
Not everyone gets paid, though.
They may not work directly for Trump but they work for Wall Street who wants the exact same thing
controlled opposition