They won't stick it out. They'll make some shitty deal that lets them feel like they got the upper hand briefly, rather than going 100% obstructionist like they should.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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I mean going 100% obstructionist would leave federal employees out of an income and generally play into the GOP's hands. The best play here is to use their leverage to pass a favorable budget, and maybe get concessions elsewhere.
Federal employees are being fired en masse without cause and replaced with ones who toe the line. Any federal employee who isn't already being targeted should probably be looking for new work anyway, to be honest.
“Democrats stand ready to support legislation that will prevent a government shutdown,” Mr. Schumer wrote in a letter to his conference this week that perplexed many House Democrats who wanted to force Republicans to make assurances before offering their backing. “Senate Democrats will use our votes to help steady the ship for the American people in these turbulent times.”
Okay this passes the bounds of what can be labeled idiocy; this guy has to be intentionally sabotaging the party.
Idiocy is too charitable.
Schumer and these other rich bastards have no intention of stopping fascism, because they benefit from it handsomely.
“We’re not going to go after every single issue,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said in an interview. “We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights.”
“What leverage do we have?”
This, assholes.
They'll cave. It's all they do.
this is the perfect time not to give any. trump is pretty much shutting down the government as is so might as well them figure it out.
They shouldn’t have been in the first place