Democratic Defense
Chuck Schumer announced that he’d vote for cloture (which is effectively a yes vote for its passing) on a continuing resolution to avoid a budget shortfall. He and other feckless Senate Democrats will claim this is necessary to avoid a government shutdown. But those of us with eyes and two brain cells to rub together know the federal government is already shutdown due to the illegal withholding of congressionally appropriated funds by the White House and Elon Musk’s DOGE. Causing a budget impasse was the Democrats’ best shot at having any leverage and they blew it.
To Hakeem Jeffries’ credit, he called out Schumer’s move as complicity with the Trump regime. Not sure what else he’s been up to for the past two months that disproves his depiction in this cartoon, though.
Before anyone gives the ol’ “They’re the minority! There’s nothing they can do!” razzle dazzle, there’s plenty of parliamentary shenanigans that can gum up the works of the Republican bulldozers. These two are choosing not to use them for reasons that get more dubious as one crisis after another happens every week of this nightmare administration.
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