inclementimmigrantOct 1

Mike Johnson Snaps as Shutdown Arguments Repeatedly Crumble on Air - Even Fox News pushed back on the House speaker’s claims.

https://lemmy.world/post/36746677

Mike Johnson Snaps as Shutdown Arguments Repeatedly Crumble on Air - Even Fox News pushed back on the House speaker’s claims. - Lemmy.World

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Show threadSoftestSapphicOct 1
The Republicans can pass this if their reps all vote together, they can’t even get all the Republicans to support them anymore.
Show threadVeedemOct 1
I don’t believe they can. They need 60 votes in the Senate.
Show threadLifeInMultipleChoiceOct 1
Except when they used reconciliation to pass 2 budget bills in 2021 when Biden became president, and 2 in 2017 when Trump became president. They use reconciliation to bypass the filibuster after 20 hours thereby allowing just 51 votes to pass budgetary measures… so long as no extraneous non budgetary items, those individually would need 60 and be filed separately at that point.
Show threadEchOct 2
They already did that in July.
Show threadSoftestSapphicOct 2
So they can just do it again.
Show threadEchOct 2
Now they can. They couldn’t before the financial year rolled over as of today.
Show threadLifeInMultipleChoice

So what your saying is that the government shutdown is do to the Republicans inaction.

Shit the entire concept of government shutdowns started in the U.S. during Ronald Regans presidency when he vetoed a spending bill. They basically invented government shutdowns to weaponize the ability to hold basic needs from the people and call it legal to get what they want.

Oct 2 at 2:11amWeb
Show threadEchOct 2

So what your saying is that the government shutdown is do to the Republicans inaction.

It is. Just clarifying why they didn’t just “do it again”.