People, Don't Turn On Senate Democrats [View all]
I Blame Senate leadership. I believe that had Chuck Schumer given a different speech that the CR would have been defeated.
If Schumer had given the reasons why Democrats could not vote for the CR, that the CR would make it easier for Musk to gut our institutions illegally, that the CR would tie Democrats hands to fight to save SS, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and the rest. That the CR would make Democrats complicit in turning over the powers of Congress delegated to them in the Constitution to Elon Musk, an illegal immigrant.
If Chuck Schumer had let Americans know that House Democrats were working on a 30 day CR to give the parties time to agree on a spending bill that would not hurt working class Americans, maybe, just maybe, 4 or 5 of those 9 other Democrats who kneecapped the House would have voted down the bad CR?
Chuck Schumer opened the door for those Senators to vote aye, it would have been much harder for them to vote aye had Chuck given a different speech.
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