SunflierNov 9

Trump Thinks Canceled Flights, Long TSA Lines, and Chaotic Airports Will End the Shutdown. He’s Wrong.

https://lemmy.world/post/38550381

Trump Wants to Create Chaos at Airports to Push Democrats to End the Shutdown. About That … - Lemmy.World

>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a press conference Wednesday that “high-volume” airports will begin to see traffic cuts on Friday, with air traffic declining by 10 percent by next week. … >Unlike the targeting of blue-state infrastructure projects, there’s no feasible way for the government to own the libs via the manipulation of airport traffic. Democrats and Republicans both take commercial flights . . …

Show threadCerebralHawksNov 9
Democrats are trying to end the shutdown. They offered to give the ACA just a year to be reassessed, but they won’t let the Republicans take health care from people. That’s their line.
Show threadxyzzy

They should never have offered a one-year extension. Budgets are approved every two years, so it just means people will lose their coverage in one year.

But more broadly, fascism should not be treated like normal, and certainly should not be funded. But I don’t know what it will take to snap people out of their complacency.

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Show threadatomicbocksNov 9
They want to be able to campaign on it for the midterms. That’s why they were willing to do a year.
Show thread[deleted]Nov 9
Schumer needs to stop trying to tine everything around elections and just accomplish stuff so they can use it when the campaigns roll around.
Show threadSpaceCowboyNov 9

Accomplish stuff? Look up how many seats the respective parties have. The democrats aren’t capable of accomplishing anything, but they might be able to prevent the Republicans from taking away a few things.

You gotta get out of the mindset that the Democrats are the government. They are not. They can push a little by shutting down the government, but a majority of Americans did vote for the Republicans to be in power. The Schumer doesn’t have a mandate to do anything, just a very narrow area where he can make a case that while Americans voted Republican they didn’t vote for what little healthcare they have to be taken away.

Also having the voters make the final decision on whether healthcare should be taken away wouldn’t be a bad thing.

It’s sad that Americans on both the left and right seem to hate democracy now.

Show thread[deleted]Nov 9

You gotta get out of the mindset that the Democrats are the government.

It would be necessary for me to be in that mindset first.

Show threadcoldengineering1234Nov 11

Majority did not vote Republican. The gerrymandering and fuckery did.

Pretty sure if we had a popular vote it would be a landslide against trump.

Show threadboolyNov 9

Budgets are approved every two years, so it just means people will lose their coverage in one year.

The budget process is an annual process. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that it’s a 2-year budget.

There are 2-year appropriations, but that’s less common than the default 1-year. There are also other multi year appropriations and no-year appropriations that don’t expire at all (agencies can spend the money until it’s gone, however long it takes). You can read about those here.

Either way, though, Congress needs to pass a budget every year (or at least continuing resolutions).

Appropriations Duration of Availability: One-Year, Multi-Year, and No-Year Funds

Show threadxyzzyNov 10

Whoops! Thanks for the correction. I was thinking of appropriations for defense spending, not general budgeting.

The Congress shall have Power … to raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

Show threadthemaninblackNov 10
Such better political discussions here than on Reddit