Mary Trump - The Last Card to Play

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Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that he would help Republicans pass a continuing resolution that slashes domestic spending and specifically targets Washington D.C. with massive, punitive cuts.

While the CR is bad, Schumer said from the Senate floor, a shutdown would be “much, much worse.”

This is tragically misguided and just tragic.]

Here we are again, another government funding crisis, another last-minute scramble, and another opportunity for Republicans to hold the country hostage in exchange for massive spending cuts that disproportionately harm working-class Americans and disproportionately benefit the 0.01% who are the ultra-wealthy. Earlier this week, the House passed a six-month stop-gap funding bill, but it's now up to the Senate to decide whether to go along with it or push for something less draconian. That is to say, it's up to Senate Democrats to push for something less draconian because almost every single Republican is completely on board with this deeply harmful and dangerous bill. Democrats are holding out for a 30-day extension to buy more time for negotiations, which surpasses my understanding because, like their counterparts in the House, Senate Republicans have shown no interest in negotiating with Democrats. They are banking on their reliably weak-kneed Democratic colleagues to succumb to pressure and vote for a bill that is—or should be—anathema to them. This is being presented as a situation in which Senate Democrats are stuck between the Scylla of causing a government shutdown or the Charybdis of caving into the Trump regime's agenda.

That is a false choice that Democrats seem to have locked themselves into. There's a third way: Let Republicans take responsibility for their bill. As Schumer pointed out earlier today, there were no negotiations. There were no concessions to Democrats because. Why? Republicans don't need to consider the Democrats at all—they control both houses of Congress. Because the House is a majoritarian institution, Republicans did not need any Democratic votes and, therefore they crafted a bill without any Democratic input that will cause grievous pain to the vast majority of Americans and potentially deal a fatal blow to our system of governance.

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-last-card-to-play

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1. Wow, I haven't had to look up that many words in awhile! Thank you