Only one House Democrat voted in the US House of Representatives voted for a spending bill that Republicans passed to keep the US government open.
The House passed a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or “CR,” to keep the government open until September on Tuesday. Only one Republican, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against the legislation.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to join Republicans in the legislation.
Vote was 217-213, 50.47%.
Without the Democrat? 216-214? 50.23%.
It was going to pass anyway. If voting yes helps one Democrat keep their seat? Sure, why not?
It would suck to watch Coast Guard service members, TSA agents, National Parks rangers, Air Traffic Controllers, and others go without paychecks again like they did in 2018-19. I recognize back-pay was distributed after the shutdown ended, but it really sucked to watch members of the US military wonder when they’d see their paychecks again while resorting to on-base community food banks in the interim.
If voting yes helps one Democrat keep their seat? Sure, why not?
This mentality from the DNC is precisely why Republicans currently control every branch of government. Nobody likes diet Republicanism and nobody will remember this specific vote in 2026.
It’s up to the Congressman to remind everyone when his Republican opponent tries to lie about him.
Since repubs have majority in both chambers, why do D votes matter at all? The only way D’s can disrupt the bill is a filibuster in the senate, right? What am I missing?
It’s easy clickbait to get mad at Democrats for failing to be sufficiently symbolic.
Since being symbolic is what democrats do instead of accomplishing things, yes.
God this is such a tired and lazy narrative. We just got out of one of the most effective administrations the world has seen and you’re still pulling this bullshit. Biden managed to steer us out of a global pandemic and avoid a recession everyone was actively rooting for while managing inflation to lower rates than any other nation globally. Without legislative control, he managed to pass two major domestic investments including one investing billionsin high tech manufacturing. He canceled billions in student loan debt, had the strongest FTC we’ve seen in decades that started up antitrust for the first time in a century, and effectively halted a geopolitical enemy without losing a single American soldier. You want to call that all symbolic? Democrats are the definition of “if you do things right, they’ll think you’ve done nothing at all” and we’re currently seeing all the things they’ve done disappear in front of our eyes.
It has to pass the senate and there you need a 2/3 majority for the filibuster. So Democratic votes do matter there
You don’t for budgets. That’s just for new legislation and it is a 60 vote requirement for cloture.
Do they matter? They could if a few Repiblicans broke rank and they should oppse this spending billl becsuse it is trash. Plus if the Dems in both houses are united against the bill it shows their supporters that they aren’t caving in like they frequently do.
Fuck Jared, he had no reason to vote for the bill.
Jared Golden of Maine
Shall be henceforth remembered as a traitor.
He betrayed his colleagues. He betrayed the opposition. He betrayed the country by extending the fascist shit show a little longer.
Any Dems voting with Republicans are fucked next election. Vote all centrist out. Push hard left.
Why the hell did they put a picture of AOC on it? Makes it look like she was the one.
For the clicks! There’s another comment that said they had a different pic show up
I had to open the link to check it, because a lot of times this happens automatically when the link just pulls the first picture from the article to use as the thumbnail. But nope, there wasn’t a single picture of AOC in the article, and the hyperlink of her name was the fifth link down in the article. This was intentional.
That photo sure doesn’t look like Jared Golden. Any chance to smear AOC tho…
Maybe it updated or something, but the article for me only shows a photo of Golden followed by one of Mace. There’s a vid at the top with a WH press conference. No photos of AOC at all.
I see the same picture of Golden from both this thread and the main page of news. Looks like if I access it through .world instead of my home instance AOC shows up.
I wonder where it’s pulling the AOC pic from, because it’s not in that article.
Makes me wish I wasn’t so confused by Rust programming so I could make a PR where we can choose a thumbnail instead of going with an auto-generated one with how often the auto-generated ones are weird, wrong, unrelated, or flat out broken.
speculating here, but the “auto-generated ones” are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It’s more likely that these websites’ operators don’t have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they’re the “proper” way to do embeds, lemmy can’t just ignore them, either.
