Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversed
It has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.
Relegated by voters to the minority in last year’s election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump’s demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans.
That is set to change next week. Funding for the government expires on Tuesday, but Democrats have refused the GOP’s demands to support legislation keeping it open unless the majority agrees to reverse the Medicaid cuts, restore funding to public media and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans.
Good. They’d better stick to their guns this time. Republicans do every time and get exactly what they want when they are the minority.
They have a genius new strategy! I’m sure it will work!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/democrats-anger-swearing
“This is not the Democratic party of your grandfather,” Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), declared earlier this year. “This is a new Democratic party. We’re bringing a knife to a knife fight.”
Um Ken, I do think you are mixing metaphors.
“This is not the Democratic party of your grandfather,”
The Democratic party of my grandfather was FDR, the New Deal, and civil rights.
That’s so 20th century.
21st century DNC is all about that sweet private equity cash and making land acknowledgments.
Imagine a new FDR
Fucking yes.
“This is a new Democratic party. We’re bringing a knife to a knife fight.”
He says, showing up for a gun fight
“No more taking the high road! When they go low, we will also go low, behind them, choking on their exhaust! Give me $5 for a mask!”
they will both agree to raise the debt ceiling again while they say little one liners to farm clips for their tik tok accounts. They are also planning to use this shutdown as a excuse to fire government employees. Nothing about this is “good” its the same performative cycle and they’ll do it again next year.
Agree. Be tough!
Props to them if they can keep the turncoats in check and actually stick to their guns.
That said, I’ll believe it when I see it.
We’ll see if the cave after like a week. Their pockets arent infinite like the republicans but this isn’t asking much of them.
The democrats are just asking for all the massive cuts to CRITICAL infrastructure to be returned back to the american people. We PAID for these programs and we DESERVE to have medicaid, better healthcare, and lower taxes. Republicans don’t care about the american people, otherwise they would have voted AGAINST the BBBA.
The democrats are just asking for all the massive cuts to CRITICAL infrastructure to be returned back to the american people.
Republicans will promise them back in the form of tax cuts.
Republicans don’t care about the american people, otherwise they would have voted AGAINST the BBBA.
They care about particular American people and their friends overseas in the EU, Saudi, and Southeast Asian banking sectors.
Republicans will promise them back in the form of tax cuts.
You forgot this part: “… For the rich”
The news is a joke. I dont watch meet the press, but my wife had it on briefly this morning and the discussion was the shutdown. They all sat there and gave zero reasons why it is acceptable for them to do this and even used a story about how it effects real Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Not one of them stated anything about how the Republicans are about to remove billions from health care or any other valid argument for why it is needed. It’s sad that the news is controlled this much.
Considering Schumer was on television today waxing poetic about how he wants to have a “serious negotiation” with Republicans, once again signaling he’s willing to sacrifice everything for nothing, I’m 99% certain they’ll puss out yet again, giving these fascists everything they want.
Instead of cutting 100 billion from social services Schumer has negotiated only to cut 99.9 billion
Im gonna see what actually happens.
Duh the only reason they do budget show downs is to manipulate the bond market to get good entry price before rate cuts lmao. The poors just don’t know what any of that means
How do we stop people from voting for Schumer and instead pick a candidate that supports the working class?
Hopefully they can’t successfully sink Mamdani, and establishment Dems finally realize which way the wind is blowing and stop lurching further and further right to appease their corporate masters
I think they do realize it, and are more beholden to corporations and very wealthy donors than to the majority of their constituents.
Donate and vote for progressives in the primaries and make damn sure you vote in every single election and call your representative and be a thorn in their side.
If they dint oppose the administration at every turn, they are complicit
If they spent 20 to 40 years, watching the Republicans formulate this plan and did nothing to oppose it they are complicit
Double fair
Doge and Trump have been working hard at shutting down everything the government does that actually serves the citizens despite having the funds. But at the same time they’re spending trillions in making the country a fascist nightmare with secret police and concentration camps.
What’s the downside to a shutdown?
Actually, does a shutdown inadvertently defund ICE, at least temporarily?
unlikely. Essential personnel and all.
Add to it that President Trump has been ignoring the funding allocated through congress. Even if the Democrats negotiate the perfect deal, President Trump could simply not spend the money.
I don’t know how it would work specifically, but I do worry that there will be some way that they can use the shutdown to further consolidate power. I’m sure these devious fucks will find a way.
They’re not intelligent, per se, but they do have a sort of low cunning that terrifies me.
Trump is a fucking idiot.
But many of the others are very intelligent. When Trump dies on the toilet they’ll appear way more sophisticated when they aren’t having to fellate him while pursuing their evil agenda.
“This time I can trust peppermint patty”
-Charlie Brown
How dare you besmirch Peppermint Patty’s name, she’s a trustworthy girl. Lucy van Pelt on the other hand…
My peanuts lore be lackin
All good homie. Patty was always one of my favorites, I liked her green plaid shirt
Are Patty and Marcie a couple? They were in my head, but that could be some lesbian fetishism from my toxic masculinity…
I don’t think there have been any official incarnations where they’re together, however it is a popular ship in fan-made content, so it’s not just you.
There aren’t any real romantic relationships in the series, apart from some of the characters having crushes on each other. (Sally on Linus, Charlie on an unnamed red haired girl, etc.)
IIRC Patty was always played as a tomboy who had a crush on Charlie Brown. Marcie was just this meek girl who followed Patty around as she was socially awkward and didn’t know how to connect with others and Patty was just very open and nonjudgmental.
I always felt Marcie’s use of “Sir!” for Patty was an acceptance and respect for Patty’s tomboy-ness, which is why I ship.
But, yeah, after seeing the replies and checking the Wikipedia article, I think I do remember some scenarios that made Patty’s attraction to “Chuck” coupled with his obliviousness the punchline.
No, not canonically at least and would’ve been very taboo in the 50’s anyway. The original comics didn’t really cover relationships between any of the characters outside of Sally’s crush on Linus, Lucy’s crush on Schroedinger, and Charlie’s crush on The Little Red-Haired Girl. I can just about guarantee though that there is fanfic out there somewhere shipping the two of them.
I’ll believe it when I see it, and I don’t think there’s any fucking way we’re going to see it.
I guarantee they’ll roll over and play dead even though it’s just about saving some neutered nonsense of what’s left (not much) of the ACA.
The government is broken
Yeah right.
The only question is which specific excuse(s) the Democrats are going to trot out after they do the bidding of their wealthy/corporate donors and cave. Again.
I am expecting Chuck and Jeffries to comply in advance.
It’s almost like you don’t understand that America is a Uniparty imperialist system masquerading as a two party republic
I really don’t get it. Even GOP has the majority why headlines says it’s up to Dems?
I’m not sure if this is the reason but in the Senate standard budget legislation can be subject to a filibuster. To overcome a filibuster and proceed to a final vote, a supermajority of 60 votes is typically needed.
This is correct. Budget Reconciliation bypasses the filibuster rules and only needs 51 votes(this includes the VP) to pass(like earlier this year) but the standard budget legislation that happens this time of year does not bypass it and requires super majority of 60 votes to pass.
