The risk of a partial government shutdown at the end of January grew more likely Saturday after Senate Democrats vowed to block a funding package over a fatal Minneapolis shooting involving federal law enforcement authorities.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday evening said that Democrats will block a major government funding package if it includes money for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), calling the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis “appalling.”
“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling — and unacceptable in any American city,” Schumer said in a statement.
What this says is Renee Goods killing was fine, but Alex’s was too far?
I’m sure they’ll fight just as hard as when they took a stand against Republicans and got the ACA subsidies back…oh, wait, they didn’t do shit because the party is pathetic and folks like a bitch when the rubber his the road.
Just as theyre paid to do
I don’t believe anything this guys says
Schumer will sell out the American people. I guarantee it
You mean again, right?
As is tradition.
Yep
I’d be nice if they kept their word but I’m not betting on it.
It’s not Schumer saying they’re gonna do it like he’s leading a charge…
It’s Schumer pre-emptivly taking credit for what’s inevitable.
Otherwise he’d just keep blabbering about compromise.
That’s why I’d bet on it.
Chuck is literally insane. What a goofball. I wonder what the Bailey’s thought about ICE executing that VA nurse today. Probably sealed their 4th trump vote. jfc…
Oh they’ll get a little bit of news coverage for a little while and then just vote for the funding anyway.
I swear to God they will vote to ban being able to film ICE while funding them with “required” body cams. I swear to fucking God. I think of the dumbest thing the Democrats can do and then they do something even dumber. So I shouldn’t even say anything.
They will say all the right things; draw it out for a month, then vote to back state sponsored murder of USA citizens, just like they did with health care last year.
The pressure to fund the IRS and therefore process returns and refunds will be huge. It’s literally the built in exist to fund this. You either deny funding and Americans don’t get their refunds or you fund it and the United States continues to brutalize it’s citizens.
Democrats are so good at losing that it became their only tool.
I have 0 faith they will actually put their money where their mouth is. Time and time again they prove to be a feckless group of cowards.
In the words of the Joker:
If you’re with me, I can promise you that I will be behind you ALL THE WAY. Sometimes, that might mean I’m locked up tight in a bomb proof bunker behind you, but don’t worry! I’ll always make sure you are there to protect me.
This is true. They have no feck.
Schumer, this is your one chance in history to do the right thing.
Don’t fuck this up like you fuck up everything else.
You mean 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,… This isn’t his first rodeo to screw everyone
This is different. This is a history defining moment.
So was the last one just a couple months ago
Guy. A battle over entitlements is NOT the same as a battle over whether the Gestapo can continue to act.
Or you know funding said gestapo… But we will just agree to disagree and hope he finally does something
That we can agree to.
Shutdown risk? How about the risks of not shutting down this government
Right? Turn it off and put it away. This one’s clearly broken.
Why the fuck would anyone even consider funding this? It’s almost as if democrats wake up every day and find a new, more pathetic way to be spineless cucks.
All our government is doing is ripping us off, hassling working people, threatening our allies, and murdering people in the streets. What is the fucking point of keeping it operational?
Because the only thing worse than a broken government is none at all. Do you want to be Germany 1945 or do you want to be Somalia?
Edit, because some people need it explained: see Mogadishu’s last 70 years vs Germany’s. One went from a cosmopolitan tourist destination with bustling cities and ports through civil war and through warlordism to where it’s trying to rebuild, bit by bit, and the other went from an abhorrent life lesson on brutal fascism to the leader of the free world (but I’d debate its status this decade). The potential to improve is the key, and I think it had a lot to do with the nature of the conflict each underwent, and the causes behind their collapse.
We now return you to your knee-jerk down-voting.
Seems like the choice is more like Germany 1939 or Somalia, and at least one of those doesn’t end with 40 million people dead.
That’s only because there weren’t 40 million Isaaq people.
Somalia is committing fewer Holocausts than 1945 Germany, so yeah.
But not fewer genocides.
Who gives a shit at this point. Democrats have completely blocked a political path to a nonviolent outcome through their unwillingness to take seriously shitting down the government previously.
Do the
rightmost-basic-easy-low-effort-sign-of-resistance thingAmerica is dead
It’s what the Bailey’s would want. I asked them.
lmfao
I just learned about this yesterday from that John Oliver segment. I knew Chuck was detached from reality, but holy fucking shit. He’s insane.
What’s more stupid is that even his imaginary friends voted against him.
