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In reply to the discussion: So, Bernie Sanders Is Going to Issue His Rebuttal to Both Trump's Speech and Democratic Response? [View all]TomCADem
(17,834 posts)4. Here is Bernie's Twitter...
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Will Bernie try to portray himself as a non-partisan alternative who actually cares about the people?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/us/government-shutdown-workers-pay.html?fallback=0&recId=1FVgdMvE69DCv1UzogwiKPdw9SH&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=CA&recAlloc=als1&geoCountry=US&blockId=trending&imp_id=356511392
Government Shutdown Leaves Workers Reeling: We Seem to Be Pawns
No sooner had the news of an impasse come out of a meeting room in Washington than thousands of miles away, on an island in the Pacific, Tomas Kaselionis had to start making decisions.
For me, its do I consider a car payment or do I pay the gas bill or the phone bill? said Mr. Kaselionis, who is working on typhoon recovery for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, unpaid and far from home in the United States commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Those are conversations within the next week that I have to have with my wife.
By Saturday, the federal government will have been shut down for two weeks, a full pay cycle for federal workers. If the shutdown lasts through Monday, it will surpass the one of 2013, and if it lasts beyond the following Saturday, it will be the longest shutdown in United States history. Politicians have said they were hopeful that the standoff could be over in a matter of days and weeks, a reassurance that rang hollow to hundreds of thousands of federal workers who were not getting paid.
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So, Bernie Sanders Is Going to Issue His Rebuttal to Both Trump's Speech and Democratic Response? [View all]
TomCADem
Jan 2019
OP
After this voluntary differentiation of himself from our party I don't want to hear nary...
brush
Jan 2019
#16
I don't think he is offering a rebuttal to the Dem's ...he is waiting until they are through. nt
UniteFightBack
Jan 2019
#6
Trump undercuts his own messaging by trying to fundraise off the border "crisis"
TomCADem
Jan 2019
#11
His rebuttal was a complement to chuck and nancy's. He talked about what the real crises are,
JudyM
Jan 2019
#14
If Ted Cruz Announced That He Would Give His Own Speech in Support of the Wall...
TomCADem
Jan 2019
#17
Listening to Pelosi's and Schumer's rebuttal and then Bernie's it almost seemed to me they
Autumn
Jan 2019
#23
You get that the one using them as "Political Pawns" is Trump, not Chuck and Nancy?
Autumn
Jan 2019
#43
I agree with that. I'm sure more will be coming out with tweets, statements etc. nt
UniteFightBack
Jan 2019
#28
YES - I think it's highly petty for Bernie to feel like he needs to say me too me too me too me too!
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2019
#34
Bernie gave a solid anti-Trump response in his usual style. Thank you, Bernie.
aikoaiko
Jan 2019
#24
Good point. Work together, not separately, even if they presumed goal is the same.
George II
Jan 2019
#48