Guess who gains if the CR fails?

[lindysalsagal]

14. Senator Chris Murphy just sent this email about the CR: He's voting no.

(Personally, I really don't know which path is better)

Today, the Senate is going to vote on the Republican funding bill. I will be voting no, and I want to explain why. You deserve to know the stakes here. First of all, Trump has a plan to destroy our economy and our government, to create a crisis that allows him to hand our government over to his billionaire friends and suspend our democracy. That’s what he’s implementing already. I wish that weren’t true, but it is.

The question is whether this funding bill makes it easier or harder for him to implement that plan. I believe that it makes it easier, so I refuse to support it. Republicans are in charge, but in the Senate, they need Democratic votes — at least on cloture, which closes debate and prevents a filibuster — to pass a funding bill. The problem is they never negotiated with us. They didn’t even try. They wrote their own partisan bill, filled with right-wing nonsense. They were so confident they could steamroll Democrats that House Republicans adjourned and went home days ago.

You may hear Republicans and the media call this a “continuing resolution.” It is not. It doesn’t merely continue last year’s funding. It makes changes that make it easier for Trump to implement his plan to destroy our country. It makes massive cuts to housing programs, and programs for health care for working families and doesn’t fully fund staffing needs at the Social Security Administration. It paves the way for Musk to advance his illegal assault on those government services.

It gives Trump brand new spending powers — like the ability to start new military programs that have never been authorized by Congress. At this moment of crisis, that is very dangerous. And it takes key guardrails off presidential spending authority, allowing Trump and Musk to move money more easily to suit their whims.

Now listen, Trump and Musk are going to keep acting illegally, no matter what this funding bill says. Whether we stop them will be up to the courts and our ability to mobilize people all over this country against their deeply unpopular agenda. But by passing a bill that makes their plan easier to implement, Democrats risk putting a bipartisan veneer of endorsement on their campaign to give our government to the billionaires and destroy the rule of law.

I just won’t be a part of that.

Every best wish,

Chris Murphy