There's no easy answer for Republicans as they move toward a stopgap bill to push a key government funding deadline to early 2025, which could complicate Trump's other plans.

Summary

Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to avoid a government shutdown, likely passing a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government until March 2025.

This would delay a full spending deal but give Republicans more influence under Trump and a GOP-controlled Senate. However, it creates an early funding deadline in Trump’s term, complicating his agenda on tax cuts and immigration.

Democrats retain power to shape legislation due to the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.

Disaster relief funding and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s re-election further complicate negotiations.

  • @horse_battery_staple
    28•1 day ago

    I don’t see it as a dilemma, however the GOP have the levers of power in Jan. They’ll likely as not restart the gov and take credit while blaming the Dems for the interruption in services.

    The DNC need to start doing something very simple. They need to highlight every single fucking policy that harms the pocket books of the common voter. Then they need to divest from PACs and talk about getting rid of Citizens United. Finally they need to promote a higher minimum wage and start siding with Unions again.

    However none of this will happen, because if they were willing to do that, Harris would be in the Whitehouse in Jan and they’d have the congressional super majority.

    The only Dems that won their last elections did so on a platform of fuck the rich.

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      15•1 day ago

      The DNC need to start doing something very simple. They need to highlight every single fucking policy that harms the pocket books of the common voter. Then they need to divest from PACs and talk about getting rid of Citizens United. Finally they need to promote a higher minimum wage and start siding with Unions again.

      …and which billionaire owned news outlet will actually cover boring stuff like that instead of whatever new antics the idiot Trump is up to today?

      It would literally require a home-grown network of journalists and news organizations that aren’t owned by oligarchs to make it happen, and even then, would anyone even read or watch it?

      Democrats could run on all of that, but who would even get told?

      Nah, they need to figure out that crazy shit is what grabs news headlines, and they need to start laying down positive-but-crazy shit. Start at “jail all billionaires” and then make a compromise of “only taxing them at 100%.” If they start with something crazy the news will cover it. The news would flip out at something like jail all billionaires, and it would catch tons of media attention, and then they can pare the issue down to something reasonable.

      Shut down congress, start making crazy demands, watch the news cover it all. That’s literally all Trump’s strategy has ever been, so why are we ignoring what works. Media covers him because he says bombastic shit all the time that upsets people. That’s literally the main reason they cover him so much.

      Think about if we had a congress that was shutting down over trans youth healthcare? Forcing a shutdown so we can ensure trans youth can get the help they need. Like literally go after the hotbutton issues that Republicans lose their shit over. Make the media cover it.

      • @horse_battery_staple
        -1•1 day ago

        Yeah, that’s genius! Let’s make it so the DNC is completely indistinguishable from the GOP and feed into the outrage loop that the media has been leveraging since the 80’s. It’s not like that’s exactly what Harris tried in the campaign she just lost.

        • Snot FlickermanEnglish
          6•1 day ago

          How did Harris try that exactly? By calling them weird? Oh she didn’t go as far as standing up for American citizens with crazy out-there ideas? Oh all her ideas were starting from a position of compromise with Republicans to begin with?

          What the fuck are you talking about? The most “outrageous” she got was calling them weird. She wasn’t demanding billionaires in shackles. Give me a break.

          • @horse_battery_staple
            3•1 day ago

            They’re not going to demand billionaires in shackles, that’s the issue.

            Your idea is just as outrageous.

            My point is the only proven successes for Dems in the last election is for candidates that separate themselves from monied interests and focus on what’s best for the common man. It doesn’t matter what national paper covers their campaign.

            We need more Guzofskis, not some Trump analog in the DNC https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-triumphs-republican-stronghold-warning-sign-trump-1828406

            • Snot FlickermanEnglish
              4•1 day ago

              And I think you’re really overrating the success of folks like Guzofski, especially considering this article viewed him as a “warning” to Trump a year before Trump was re-elected and Republicans won all three houses of government.

              Like, what fucking crack are you even smoking to still be playing such a losing fucking game. Get angry, get wild, make unreasonable demands, make the media cover you. That’s what Trump does and it fucking works.

              He’s out here threatening to annex Canada, and people won’t shut the fuck up about it because it’s so unhinged. You can’t argue, this dumb shit dominates the news cycles.

              The reason people stay home is because Democrats aren’t fighting tooth and nail for us, instead always starting from positions of compromise and then compromising further. Separating yourself from monied interests isn’t enough, you have to put your money where your mouth is and take fucking risks for your citizens. If that means saying something risky just so the media will pay attention, so be it.