Alert: Call your Democratic Senator today and tell them to vote no!
We have forty eight hours to stop the CR in the Senate. (It looks like it will pass in the house with only
Republicans.). Stopping this bill Is the only tool in the tool box in stopping the Musk rampage.
Let your senator know why it is important that we stop this bill in its current form even if it
shuts down the government.
"Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword?"
Ed. Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom line is Democrats have about 48 hours to convince D senators to clip Elon’s wings. It’s still totally doable. But it has to happen in the next 48 hours.)
We’re now down to the wire with the so-called “continuing resolution” fight. And just to take this out of Congress-speak, this is a temporary spending bill that will keep the government running, such as it is, until Republicans can pass their full budget in the early fall — that’s the one that will slash health care coverage and other safety net spending to give the Elon crowd a massive tax cut. After almost two months of a criminal wilding spree on the republic, interspersed with lots of “cry more!”s and “sucks to be you”s, Republicans now come to Democrats and say: hey, now we need your help to keep going. The bill is essentially a license for Elon to keep the party going right through the Fall.
The bill is being billed as a “clean CR” — in other words, just continuation of the Biden budget. That’s not true. It’s the Biden-era stuff plus new money for a bunch of Trump priorities. What it doesn’t do is lock in the Musk-illegal cuts. What that also means is that it appropriates a bunch of money for stuff Elon has already shut down. So where’s that money go exactly?
Conventional wisdom is now that Republicans will be able to get their bill through the House with only their own votes. For Republicans, that’s impressive because it means losing like one vote. Perhaps this is wrong. But I’m assuming it’s right. Because no one in their caucus seems to be saying otherwise. But that doesn’t change the overall equation because Republicans still need seven Democratic votes in the Senate.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-dems-pick-up-their-sword
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