President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

Democrats apparently really don't want to do anything to stop Trump. How could they go along with the Republican budget? This was one of the few ways they could show displeasure and disagreement right now, and they choose to go along with it instead? What a bunch of chickens.

Nothing they're doing already was stopping Republicans. And this wont, either. Democrats should have let any shutdown be on Trump and the Republicans. The bit about no offramp? Yeah, exactly.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...2025-senate-vote-trump-democrats/82317937007/

Democrats were stuck between two choices they despised: Vote for a funding bill that reflects Republican spending priorities and will give Trump and his allies more leeway to dismantle the federal government, or shut the government down by denying their vote and risk facing political backlash and blame.

After days of waffling and demanding a shorter-term funding extension that Republicans rejected, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tipped the scales.

He announced Thursday night that he would vote to support the GOP funding bill, despite strong opposition from the Democratic base, arguing that the consequences of a shutdown would be "much, much worse" than the funding extension.

Schumer made the case on the Senate floor that a shutdown would allow the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers to "cherry pick which parts of the government to reopen," giving them even more power over the federal government they have sought to remake.

"If we go into a shutdown, and I told my caucus this, there's no offramp," he told reporters Thursday night. "How you stop a shutdown would be totally determined by the Republican House and Senate, and that is totally determined, because they've shown complete blind obeisance, by Trump."

Is he wrong? No.

 

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Stinky spiked the football at Main Justice today. The football was long and brown and reeked of Special Sauce.

 

[Starman]

The thing is, the rules from 15 years ago no longer apply.

This is not going to be a popular viewpoint here, but Schumer is right on this one. This vote was the least bad option.

Yeah but now Team Fatfork can get up in public and say the chainsawing of SS, MC and MAid "has bipartisan support" and the bothsider MSM will happily lap it down.

 

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The head of Trump's antisemitism task force just re-posted two antisemitic X accounts

 

[micropolitan guy]

If they've saved $714 per taxpayer, where's my check?

 

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Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Children | The New Republic

 

[WriteThinking]

Is he wrong? No.

Maybe not, but neither are those opposed to going along with the Republican budget. The Democrats gave away their only avenue of stepping up against Trump and the Republicans, giving in once again, instead.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending

And there's this one, too, with the same sentiments

Van Jones warns of "volcanic eruption of outrage" toward Chuck Schumer