Unconditional Surrender
Commentary has said it before. Our Democratic Party leadership in Congress is clueless these days. See this from the Daily Beast:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to let Republicans advance their government spending bill, saying it’s “as dangerous as it is reckless.”
The current continuing resolution “turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it sacrifices congressional authority, and it is deeply partisan,” the Democratic congresswoman told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“To me it is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage we have away for free when we’ve been sent here to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid, and protect Medicare,” she added.
On Thursday night, Schumer announced he would not be voting to filibuster a continuing resolution bill advanced by Republicans that gives the president the power to cancel individual budget items—a power typically reserved for Congress.
In a process known as “cloture,” Republicans need 60 votes to bring the bill up for a vote, despite only needing a simple majority to pass it.
Republicans had backed Democrats into a corner because a government shutdown could have allowed Trump and his billionaire megadonor Elon Musk to put Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting task force DOGE into overdrive.
But Ocasio-Cortez told Tapper that Democrats needed to reject the stacked partisan bill and push for a clean 30-day stopgap that would keep the government open for another month while both sides returned to the negotiating table.
Here is the entire Daily Beast read: AOC Rips Into Schumer for ‘Dangerous’ Plan to Bow to Trump.
If Democratic senators provide the votes needed for passage, then I would call this an unconditional surrender. We need more AOCs and less of the Schumer types. What are Democrats getting out of this. Nada. Zilch. Democrats in the senate have leverage and they are letting us down. They act like MAGA holds a super majority. Pitiful.
Democrats need new leadership in Congress.
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