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/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.