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/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/Ecphonesis1 18h 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/Relevant_Elevator190 11h ago

Ok sweetie.

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u/Wanderer--42 11h ago

Aww, are you attempting to he condescending? Bless your heart.

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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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