Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

  • @paddirn
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    1 year ago

    Just a 45 day stopgap and it’s not over, but hopefully Republicans begin to realize, “We can’t function with these people,” and start trying to move away from their hardliners. Doubtful it’ll happen, but one can always dream. That they didn’t actually let it go to a shutdown suggests that there’s Republicans who wanted to avoid a shutdown as much as Democrats and may be willing to compromise and reach a longer term deal, they’re not just trying to burn the whole place down.

    • @SalamendaciousOP
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      131 year ago

      Matt Gaetz has been saying he intends to file a motion to vacate the speakership this week.

      • @buddascrayon
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        141 year ago

        Seriously why the fuck isn’t that asshole in jail? He was fucking trafficking children.

        • @SalamendaciousOP
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          51 year ago

          I don’t think I’ll ever understand that either. An arrest looked inevitable and when the DOJ announced they weren’t going to arrest him I was dumbstruck.

    • Flying Squid
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      81 year ago

      These motherfuckers could fund the government for the next century if they wanted to.