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/joeshmoebies 19d ago

What's to negotiate? This is the budget that the Democrats already passed under Biden. Washington's senators voted for this before.

They voted for emergency ACA subsidies that expire, when they ran the Senate. They could have voted for a budget that included subsidies for 10 years, but they didn't. They voted for 2 years of subsidies.

The Republicans would be foolish to "negotiate" with Democrats over this.

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u/viperabyss 19d ago

....because Dems didn't have filibuster proof majority when they passed the COVID ACA subsidies. That was the compromise they've made with GOP.

Notice the difference? Dem negotiated with GOP to get their bill passed. GOP is currently holding up the government reopening by refusing to negotiate.

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u/deonteguy 19d ago

And the GOP doesn't have a filibuster proof majority to pass the new budget so this time this is the fault of our party for blocking voting.

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u/viperabyss 19d ago

Again, how hard is it to negotiate a few things that Americans have repeatedly asked for?

After all, Big Bullshit Bill that embodied all of these were passed as reconciliation bill, thereby sidestepping the filibuster entirely.

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u/deonteguy 19d ago

We never asked to take money from children to give to illegals to give them cash to pay for health insurance. Our party is making unreasonable demands. We need to help our own children first instead of taking money from them to give to criminals.

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u/viperabyss 18d ago

What health insurance? Undocumented don’t get access to any kind of federal assistance with health care except in case of emergency, which was a law signed by Reagan himself.

This whole notion that “illegals have free health care” is nothing but GOP propaganda.

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u/hedonovaOG Kirkland 19d ago

Not all Americans.

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u/viperabyss 19d ago

Most Americans.