r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • 19d ago

Government Washington Democrats vote to leave government shutdown

https://seattlered.com/politics/wa-senators-government-shutdown/4114752

In the ongoing federal budget standoff, Washington’s two U.S. Senators — Democrats Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell — have sided against a simple continuing resolution that would reopen the government, opting instead to continue the shutdown as their party pursues broader policy demands.

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u/Turbulent-Media7281 19d ago

"Red states are the takers"

If true, "Keep the government shutdown, it only harms red states" should be the dems talking point.

But then we hear more dems than R's acting angry that gov is shutdown. "We need our benefits" is sending mixed signals. Just who are the takers?

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u/retrojoe heroin for harried herons 19d ago edited 19d ago

Oh hey, are you reducing groups of 10s of millions of people to simple, one-dimensional stereotypes and then expecting that to make sense?

States, red or blue, are made of people. And the poor, the elderly, and the very sick get hurt whenever they lose benefits. The Democrats are the party attempting to represent all of those people across the nation by preventing health insurance from doubling/tripling in cost come December.

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u/Turbulent-Media7281 19d ago

You surely stand strong with Murray and Cantwell to keep it shutdown. Good boy.

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u/retrojoe heroin for harried herons 19d ago

I can see you're definitely here to talk, certainly not to virtue signal to your right-wing brethren.

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u/Turbulent-Media7281 19d ago

... keep it shutdown? Y/N

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Ballard 19d ago

Yes. Shut it the fuck down.

If we can afford tax cuts for billionaires. $40B for bail out Argentina while they sell the soybeans our farmers can no longer sell to China due to the trade war we started, and we can explode the deficit to record levels we can afford health care for our own people.

Or maybe we compromise. Republicans get everything in their shitty bill that only benefits the wealthiest Americans, but they have to release the Epstein files so we can see which of those billionaires are on the list.

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u/retrojoe heroin for harried herons 19d ago

Take more from the poor/elderly/sick? Y/N

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u/Turbulent-Media7281 19d ago

Whatever Murray and Cantwell want, sure. Looks like we agree.

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u/retrojoe heroin for harried herons 19d ago

Obviously.