Republicans in Congress will try to pass a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a partial government shutdown and keep the government running through September, though they’ll need Democrats’ help to do it.
The 99-page stopgap spending bill, which House Republicans released over the weekend, is required since lawmakers haven’t made any progress conferencing the dozen annual government funding bills that were supposed to become law by Oct. 1.
The continuing resolution, the third since October, would fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2025 — marking the first time since fiscal 2013 that Congress has leaned on stopgap spending bills for the entire year, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
Dems should shut it down … but won’t. They could force Republicans to sign whatever legislation they want, they just need 2 voted to win … but the Dems are weak. We need a better class of liberal politicians.
No, we need democrats that move to the center but avoid the billionaires. Which is basically impossible.
No, we need democrats that move to the center
Correct – to the left of where they are now.
Seriously: the Democrats are indeed liberal, which is a right-wing economic philosophy, and that’s a big part of the problem. The whole debate over “woke” (social “liberalism”) is nothing but a fucking distraction; the real reason the Democrats are losing is that they refuse to address wealth inequality.
Democratic representatives make more money in donations when there are more Republicans around making noise …
We need to fix the way we donate money to candidates 
Honestly it should not even be legal to donate to politicians at all. There should only be publicly funded elections. Earn enough signatures to end up on a ballot, you get a budget that goes to helping you campaign, audited to ensure that it only gets used for purposes directly related to campaigning.
There’s no practical way to do this.
There’s nothing stopping people of influence (the wealthy, social media influencers, etc.) from endorsing a candidate on their own. Attempting to do so would violate free speech rights. And gee, which candidates do you think they’re going to endorse? The ones who pay them.
It would open the floodgates to even worse corruption than we see now.
Can I do multiple 2k donations? if not what decides a “separate entity” in the donations because if this isn’t addressed it might just be more paperwork and not do anything.
And when it’s shut down, we should have a general strike. And the condition for ending the shutdown should be the immediate defunding and permanent removal of DOGE. And Trump should be made to wear a clown suit with a sign around his neck saying PUTIN’S BITCH.
(A boy can dream).
We need a better class of liberal politicians.
We need social democrats or people to the left of them. And most of all, people with backbone.
The flip side is that if the Dems shut it down, the republicans will use that as a scapegoat for all their failures and, truth be damned, their base will eat it up. It’s not an enviable position.
Republicans have the majority. It’s Republicans who are blocking the spending bill. This has nothing to do with Democrats other than attempt by the mainstream media to make it seem like it will be Democrats fault.
The average voter won’t know that. They will see the upcoming recession and they will be told it was caused by Biden and dems government shutdown so that is what they will believe.
And the GOP will have a scapegoat for their recession and be able to continue crashing the economy without getting any blame.
Wait a sec. We know the GqP doesn’t care if the government burns, becauae that just hurts the poors, but the rest of government has things to do and provides essential services.
You want the Dems to burn it too, like some brinkmanship?
