silence7Nov 9

Deal to end government shutdown in reach

https://slrpnk.net/post/29992987

Deal to end government shutdown in reach - SLRPNK

It sounds like a bunch of Democrats want to cave in exchange for no concessions whatsoever. Current likely Democratic votes for this: [https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3m5a6kjm74c2p] * Shaheen - NH [https://www.senate.gov/states/NH/intro.htm] * Hassan - NH [https://www.senate.gov/states/NH/intro.htm] * King - ME [https://www.senate.gov/states/ME/intro.htm] * Fetterman - PA [https://www.senate.gov/states/PA/intro.htm] * Peters - MI [https://www.senate.gov/states/MI/intro.htm] * Durbin - IL [https://www.senate.gov/states/IL/intro.htm] * Warner - VA [https://www.senate.gov/states/VA/intro.htm] * Kaine - VA [https://www.senate.gov/states/VA/intro.htm] * Ossoff- GA [https://www.senate.gov/states/GA/intro.htm] * Warnock - GA [https://www.senate.gov/states/GA/intro.htm] If you want to change things, you need to call their DC office NOW, and leave an email if you can’t. [https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm]

Show threadchipacabrasNov 10

I don’t understand what the calculation was here. People were hurting, but a whole lot more people are going to hurt without health insurance come next year. They got:

  • a vote on healthcare extension in December: almost certain to fail and even if succeeding, open enrollment ends 12/15. So you’d potentially be making people gamble thousands of dollars per month that this unlikely vote succeeds and effects them immediately
  • written into the law that federal employees get back pay - which is already federal law
  • reverses lay offs that occurred during the shut down - which were illegal
  • it only funds the government through January. So we’re going to be right back in this situation. And then what - we tell these poor SNAP recipients, “oh sorry, we’re going to need you to go though this whole thing again because we wanted to make sure people could fly home for thanksgiving.”

Hard to imagine a moderate winning a national primary after this. And what the hell is the republican answer for why it was so important that people not get slightly more affordable healthcare that it was worth starving people.

I hope that at the least, the re-establishment of SNAP will be quick.

Show threadruniq

it only funds the government through January. So we’re going to be right back in this situation.

They’ll use budget reconciliation, which they apparently can use once a year to pass budget-related bills with a simple majority. They used it up this year to pass the BBB.

(Cribbed from Reddit.)

Reconciliation (United States Congress) - Wikipedia

Nov 10 at 6:23amWeb
Show threadchipacabrasNov 10
Wow so they can’t even at least posture that they would refuse to vote to keep the government open if they don’t agree to continue to the subsidies…