The Senate is in a situation that does not win democrats.
They are faced with two options in less than two days until the closure of a potential federal government: Either he plans to keep a Republican government open and President Donald Trump has been giving his first leverages since his assignment. Or forcing a closure that many concerns will only lead to deeper interruptions in the federal labor force.
“You have two really disgusting things. When you reach this level, it is difficult to sort one against the other. So it’s a difficult decision, “says the democratic senator of Colorado, John Hickenlooper. “Both of them are such great evils.”
Why did we write this
If the Assembly and the Senate cannot agree on a bill of law, it may be the closure of a government on March 14th. After the Parliament has passed only a draft law with republican votes, the Senate democrats face a difficult series without a good option.
On Tuesday, the Parliament republicans passed a bill that would keep the government open until September, and President Trump punished the Columbia Region by forcing the city to shift around the funds, reduce real internal expenditures and finance the city with local taxpayer money.
The Democrats are angry with the provisions and face violent demands to do something, something. However, if they force a closure starting at 12: 01 on Saturday morning, many of them are worried that they will go back. The Trump administration will be responsible for the implementation of this closure, that is, which workers are “necessary ve and that they should continue to work without paying and which they can be sent home. And the government’s Ministry of Efficiency (DEGE) cuts a large space through federal labor, while the democrats concern that administration can make it easier for people to ignite people.
While the Republicans took advantage of the closing of the government-or threats-threats to gain more power to achieve their victory for the last decade, the Democrats have been much more reluctant to do so as a pro-government party. Only the exception came early in the first period of Mr. Trump, where the democrats triggered a short closure over immigration problems before rapidly ending. However, this time, it is not clear which step will protect government employees and their work better. Trump management already cuts programs and left and right staff. And this is one of the few times when the Democrats have a real power.
In voice, the Trump administration continues to continue the federal government widespread and potentially illegal. Even if the Senate Democrats discussed the least terrible way forward, the Ministry of Education announced that the last of the last of the deep government deductions that are not authorized by the congress had dismissed about half of the labor force – 1,300 employees. So far, the Trump administration, which has helped Mr. Musk’s Dge team, has dismissed tens of thousands of government workers in various agencies and offers even more in -depth cuts.
The Democrats emerged at a series of long, tense noon meeting in the halls on Wednesday: with a strategy simulacrum: a strategy simulacrumum: Voting for a month for a month, voting for a month, saved time for compatibles.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, Wednesday afternoon in the afternoon Senate in a statement, the Republican Parliamentary law to pass the law “Republicans do not vote in the Senate,” he said.
However, the measures of the Democrats seem to be a really useful effort. If enough Democrats vote to think of the Parliamentary Law and their changes seem possible, the Republicans can pass this without democratic votes. Both sides expects the democrats to be more than not allowing the bill to pass.
The Senate Republicans planned a procedural vote for Friday. They will probably need eight senate democrats to vote with them to advance. As the deadline approached, some of the democrats who often draw back two -party measures pointed out that they were not interested in helping.
Senator Hickenooper said to the Monitor that both options in the afternoon of Wednesday, President Trump and Mr. Musk, who risk facilitating his “directing the agenda” to reduce the federal labor force. However, he announced that it was the least bad option to oppose the GOP bill on social media that evening and to risk the closure of the government.
Virginia Sen, one of the more moderate and two -party members of the Senate. Mark Warner had the same conclusion. Senator Warner also represents a state with numerous federal government workers, and for a long time Washington is a supporter just above the river from the state of DC. On Thursday morning, he released a video, saying that he would not vote to allow the GOP plan to continue and that there was a “free” and “average -spirited an attack on the DC and that he would harm neighboring Virginia. He also said that he would refuse to “turn switches without restriction with Trump and Musk.
The only democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John is Fetterman. He said that despite the unhappiness of the bill with some of the GOP provisions, a closure would harm the Americans more and explode politically on the faces of the Democrats. “It will not take long before [Democrats are] He begs the government to reopen the government ”.
The house democrats made the opposite. Except for a democrat, all of them voted against the GOP transitional plan at the beginning of the week. Many of them expressed disappointment that Senate colleagues did not show the same collective spine.
New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Monitor how the Senate Democrats wanted the democrats to vote for the GOP plan, “I hope they won’t.”
“This creates a big Slush fund for Donald Trump [and] Elon Musk, ”he says. “I think irresponsible. It removes any railings to ensure that these allocated funds are spent responsible. I don’t think it’s right. “
The only representative Ocasio-Cortez, who wants Senate colleagues to oppose the bill, is not.
“People with two -year terms showed some courage. Let’s see what people with six years of years will do. ”
However, the choice of voting against the GOP bill of the Democrats was more theoretical. If the Senate follows the Democrats, it will actually trigger the closure of a government. And the clock passes.
“Frankly, we never want to close. Centralist Michigan Democratic Senator Gary Peters, is not the preferred option, he says. “But we have two bad options right now.”
