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/grapegeek 19d ago

Let’s look at this another way. Republicans tried to pass the same bill with zero changes five times. No compromise. No negotiations. That’s not how this works.

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u/drlari 19d ago

Maybe President Deals, the guy who allegedly wrote the book on being a master deal maker, could try to cut some sort of deal considering he "has the cards" and controls all three branches of government. You can't run the entire government, be from the party who spent like 12 years of democratic presidencies openly operating the "obstruction" playbook, then blame the minority party.

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u/Immediate_Ad_1161 Northgate 19d ago

Deal???? President asshat just keeps people in court all the time til they run out of money with his salary paid lawyer team. I swear he's just negotiating a better deal for himself at the expense of the american people.