Absolutely useless

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    17 hours ago

    I’ve often been a defender of Democrats being realistic, but Schumer is on some bullshit here.

    It’s unclear what, if anything, Schumer got in return for his decision to allow the House bill to proceed

    Says it all right there. The Republican bill was just a list of laughably insane things they knew Democrats would oppose so they could blame the shutdown on them. It actually cuts funding of DC’s local budget forcing them to fire teachers and even cops. Again, nothing to do with the federal government. It just grabs power from a local government and says that they can’t use their own local tax revenues to educate kids and fight crime. It’s complete rabid insanity that has no point other than to bully a blue city. And Schumer’s like “Sure, ok. whatever.”

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      17 hours ago

      The budget also cuts medicare and medicaid by some pretty substantial amounts, among many other government programs.

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        15 hours ago

        This is the CR. This allows for more time to work on that budget… which only needs 51 votes because of reconciliation.

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          Ah, ok. Kind of weird that they would even bother with a CR when they could just move the debt ceiling with the budget proposal? Still, a weight is lifted knowing that it isn’t coming to pass right away.