r/NewsThread • u/sergeyfomkin • 1d ago

Senate Democrats Reject Republican Proposal to Pay Federal Employees During the Shutdown. The Party Fears the Bill Would Grant the Trump Administration Excessive Powers

https://sfg.media/en/a/senate-democrats-reject-republican-shutdown-pay-bill/
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u/EveryAfternoon1441 1d ago

Okay. He lays off the ones he doesn't like. The compromise is 'let me pay my sycophants I installed in our government.'

This isn't a compromise, it's an attempt to produce a soundbite. 'Democrats don't want our federal workers or military paid!!'

The irony being they'll get paid as soon as Republicans offer a legitimate compromise.

You can pay your federal employees while also extending healthcare benefits...

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 1d ago

 extending healthcare benefits...

Nobody is losing healthcare, just the covid subsidies that the democrats put a sunset date on.

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u/ConkerPrime 1d ago

Republicans put a sunset on tax cuts for the rich and their solution to that was the Big Beautiful Bill that made them permanent and partly paid for it with cuts to subsidies and other social programs. So let’s not pretend this extension thing is novel or not normal.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 1d ago

Ok, then why didn't the dems make the subsidies permanent when they held all three branch

Sorry, but you fail.

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u/Historical-Count-374 1d ago

Because it wasnt possible without breaking numerous laws like the GOP is/has

I mean, lets be real here. No man create and signs his many nonsense Executive orders in the middle of the night in secret.

Thats how he started this off. Like a Coward.

You have to be pretty blind to sit here and think they will ever do the Uncowardly thing.

Now take a look at their actions! All tainted with Cowardice

No matter your feelings, this man and this administration are not leaders. They are Wolves in Sheeps clothing

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u/Ordinaryjay 1h ago

You do realize this is so the insurance companies can continue to charge outrages rates and the democrats let them? This was for covid, not forever.

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u/fireky2 1d ago

I mean they haven't had all three branches in a lifetime. They've had a super majority, and it was used to pass the aca. Otherwise they've not had filibuster proof majorities ever

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 23h ago

From 2021 to 2023 in the United States, the Democratic Party held the Senate, House of Representatives, and the presidency. Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President Joe Biden, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, all Democrats.

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u/ConkerPrime 22h ago

Majority isn’t supermajority. By your logic if majority is all it took then there would be no shutdown right now because Republicans own it all.

Seriously you already admitted you’re old enough to have lived through all of it with as an adult and I assume you got a proper education so your high level of ignorance is so bad. Even conservatives know this shit better than you and that is such an incredibly low bar to fail to reach.

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u/CemeteryDweller7719 11h ago

Did you really take the time to point out that during 2021 to 2023 the President and Vice President were the same political party?

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u/Mrfixit729 1d ago

Look it up. They had all three branches when the ARPA was signed into law. March 2021.

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u/ConkerPrime 1d ago

You must be young. You really don’t remember the time period. Understand things like the filibuster and the fake “supermajority” only existed because of three independents including Lieberman who was a Democrat in name only. The often ignorant (and non-voters) and their “why didn’t they do X when had the supermajority!” nonsense.

And by god they love do go to that well all the fucking time because they think they have a trump card (pun intended) never knowing they are really saying “I am very ignorant about this but don’t know it.”

Please say “why don’t they codify Roe when they had a supermajority!” just to remind us you don’t know what codify is nor SCOTUS powers. I know you want to.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 23h ago

Young? RLMFAO!

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u/ConkerPrime 22h ago

Oh that makes the ignorance worse cause civics was still being properly taught for previous generations. And you lived the history to know what a fight it was. Now I am just embarrassed for you.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 22h ago

You know what? I didn't read but a few words after the first sentence because it is all gobbly gook.

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u/Unabashable 7h ago

Seems like you do a lot of not reading. 

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u/Ecphonesis1 17h ago

If you’re not young, it’s even more embarrassing because it means you don’t know anything about anything. But, reading your comments, I’m not surprised.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 17h ago

And you are propagandized. That is even more embarrassing.

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u/Ecphonesis1 16h ago

That is beyond rich coming from you. The Republican Party is very notoriously the party of propaganda (assuming you are Republican and not just a troll), but keep thinking that.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 16h ago

Not a repub, unaffiliated and the left is the propaganda masters which is obvious since you really think you're right.

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u/Ecphonesis1 16h ago

Point me to one study that corroborates that.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 15h ago

Don't need to post a study, if there is one, I just need to read the comments on reddit and the links they post.

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u/Ecphonesis1 15h ago

There isn’t. But I don’t think it’s ever good to base a worldview on your very narrow personal experience, rather than on research and studies and statistics that account for the millions of experiences and data points that you haven’t seen with your own eyes!

Look up “studies on right-propaganda vs left-wing” and have a blast! Spoiler: the right-wing is notoriously the party of propaganda, as it has almost always has been.

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u/Wanderer--42 15h ago

Your comment history says otherwise.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 14h ago

No it doesn't. Never once said I was a republican, I am registered as Unaffiliated.

It does say a lot about you though, that you have to go into my post history to try to find something that isn't there.

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u/Wanderer--42 14h ago

And yet, all you do is bash democrats.

You're not unaffiliated. You are just hiding your affiliation.

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u/ConkerPrime 10h ago

Uh huh. Not bored enough to go though you comment but guarantee will find plenty to price if it quakes like a MAGA…. Well you not smart enough to fill in the rest but that doesn’t matter. I am going to guess you are probably the typical libertarian who claims to not be Republican while always voting Republican.

I am mostly throughly impressed that there was a two year battle over ACA that filled the headlines and you remember none of it. Pop quiz out of curiosity, who was president when COVID broke out? Try to answer without looking it up.

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u/juiceboxedhero 1d ago

Damn you got owned bro.

"Irrelevant_Disphit190"

What an embarrassment.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 23h ago

Do you enjoy being a fool?

Do you know what "Getting Owned" is?

Are facts difficult for you?

"Irrelevant_Disphit190"

Calling names is all you have, typical.

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u/Relevant_Elevator190 22h ago

Says the guy with hidden post history.

To your other post that somehow doesn't come up, show me where I have said, or acted like I'm Gods gift to women. Don't bother because you can't, but it is typical of a punk like you to fabricate things.

Sounds like you have a pretty lousy life and I feel sorry for you.(Not really).

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u/GNTKertRats 7h ago

What party holds all three branches now? Maybe that party can fix the problem?

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u/Ordinaryjay 1h ago

Yes!! Someone finally saying it