The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won a series of concessions centered on healthcare.
The GOP, which controls the Senate and the House of Representatives, repudiated their demands, setting off a legislative scramble that lasted into the hours before funding lapsed at midnight, when the Senate failed to advance both parties’ bills to keep funding going.
"Republicans are plunging America into a shutdown, rejecting bipartisan talks, pushing a partisan bill and risking America’s healthcare,” top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday evening, as it became clear a shutdown was inevitable.
Republicans, specifically Donald Trump, have more government power than any administration in modern history. Control of the white house, senate, house, and supreme court, in addition to simply acting outside the law with impunity
Yet they’ll still blame Democrats for the shutdown
They do love blaming minorities for their problems.
The Republican controlled house and Senate shut down the government
Ftfy
Repeat after me, “Trump and the GOP controlled congress are shutting down the government in order to prevent the Epstein files from being released.”
Not according to hud.gov:
And this will work too. The average American is way too dumb to see this for what it is.
Assuming there is an “after”, there really needs to be a policy against politics on official government communications. There probably is. One more thing to hold them to account in 3.5 years
Assuming you have a true democratic election in '28 and not some Putinesque version.
Not that exactly. While yes, I also dread the possibility of the end of democracy …… elections are run by states (so far). Unless there is actual martial law, many states will continue to hold fair elections.
Interference will look different. As always red states will continue to disenfranchise voters, nationwide propaganda will increase. So will there be attacks on state certification, on who is allowed to be listed as a candidate, etc?
- If Trump’s pet Supreme Court continues to rule that it might be against the constitution but we’ll allow it for now, he could be listed as a candidate.
- If red states continue to disenfranchise voters, regressives hold their monopoly on the state despite being smaller minority.
- if even one blue state’s election certification is claimed invalid, that’s a lot of electoral votes that suddenly disappear
What do we do if this happens?
Conservatives are the radical left. It’s just words.
They’ll spend tens of millions of dollars on a fucking ballroom but suggest giving americans healthcare and they’ll allow the entire government to shut down.
*hundreds of millions
Not even giving, it’s not taking it away.
Editorialized headline. The linked article’s headline is “US government shuts down after Senate fails to advance both parties’ bills”
The Guardian updated the headline. I have changed the headline here to reflect that.
Thanks for the head’s up.
That first paragraph seems deceptively worded. Without reading between the lines it appears to pin blame on Democrats while being vague on details about the healthcare concessions.
That’s a shame, I expected better of The Guardian.
The UK is sitting on the knife’s edge of fascism as well. Somehow Starmer is in charge and Farage has no fear. That head of lettuce was better.
