Amendments. They’re looking for the opportunity to give amendments.
This is all Democratic leadership is capable of coming up with. They want to be able to ask “pretty please” to the Republican majority before their suggestions get voted down and they vote for this piece of crap CR anyway. This is all they’re asking for. Nothing to stop Trump and Musk from running roughshod. Nothing to rein DOGE in. Nothing to reverse the damage DOGE already did. Just the opportunity to give some suggestions that they know will be ignored by the GOP in the end.
Democrat leadership is spineless.
The filibuster is right there. You kept it around for a reason.
Turns out, that reason was just that democrats needed an excuse when they broke campaign promises.
The filibuster conveniently doesn’t apply to budget reconciliation and appointments, the only 2 things the Republicans actually care about. They should’ve always pushed to get rid of it, because the Republican agenda has always been both economic, and stacking the courts in order to enable the executive to ignore Congress.
Oh, are republicans using reconciliation? Because it’s my understanding that reconciliation involves a joint session, which isn’t happening right now.
If needed they’ll probably do that, yeah.
But they’re not doing it now. Which means that democrats should be filibustering.
How? It’s in the house now. The senate isn’t doing anything. Typically the house comes up with a bill, the senate comes up with a slightly different bill, then in reconciliation they work out a compromise and vote on that.
Always nothing democrats can do.
There’s probably stuff they could do, but not the filibuster. I mean, they could use the filibuster on every other thing in the senate, and they definitely should do that. I’m definitely not interested in making excuses for them.
They definitely do have leverage that they’re not using.
They can use it right now.
So stop.