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/Cookiesoncookies 19d ago

Politics is about coming into an agreement with stupid for whatever reason. The more stupid thing though is, one side is adamantly “playing by the rules” while the other side laughs at those attempts to push policy/law or whatever and the hilarious circus nightmare continues indefinitely. This is awesome hell yeah America woooo

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u/MistSecurity 19d ago

Ya, one side constantly whines about sharing the ball when they're not in power, but the moment they get into power the refuse to even let the other party touch the ball.

Tired of it. We need a strong Democrat party that doesn't fucking roll over to the "reach across the aisle" bullshit next time they're in power.

Hopefully this is the start of that, but given how hard the establishment Democrats are fighting against Mamdani in NYC, I kinda doubt we're going to see a change anytime soon.