Summary
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar insist Democrats should demand major concessions if they help Republicans avoid a government shutdown.
With a narrow three-seat majority, Republicans need Democratic votes to pass a spending bill, but progressives argue the GOP must “sort themselves out” first.
They oppose Republican efforts to slash corporate taxes and gut federal agencies.
Concerns remain that even if Democrats secure agreements, the Trump administration might ignore them. Some moderate Democrats agree that Republicans must take responsibility for funding the government.
In working democracies that’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s why it’s called opposition not obstruction.
The balance to this is that all parties should be responsible while in the opposition and the party in government shouldn’t try to reform the state according to medieval principles. And this is why American democracy is broken.
Democrats have never been opposition, they’ve always been collusion
but only when all parties play by the rules…