There's no easy answer for Republicans as they move toward a stopgap bill to push a key government funding deadline to early 2025, which could complicate Trump's other plans.

Summary

Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to avoid a government shutdown, likely passing a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government until March 2025.

This would delay a full spending deal but give Republicans more influence under Trump and a GOP-controlled Senate. However, it creates an early funding deadline in Trump’s term, complicating his agenda on tax cuts and immigration.

Democrats retain power to shape legislation due to the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.

Disaster relief funding and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s re-election further complicate negotiations.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    911·
    1 day ago

    Honestly, fuck it, play their game. Shut down the government until you get some solid concessions from these right-wing pricks.

    It’s their government now, but if we still have the purse strings, let’s cut off their ability to do shit by fucking defunding them.

    I don’t give a damn anymore. Taking the" high road" lead us to fascism.

    People forgot you cannot reason with fascists, the only language they understand is power and so you have to be ready for a fight.

    Use the power you have now, Democrat Congresscritters, or lose it entirely.

    I mean, all these federal employees who will be furloughed are looking at losing their jobs entirely under Trump anyway. No offense to them, but maybe it’s time to take a little personal pain to save the fucking nation.

    • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
      291·
      1 day ago

      I don’t see it as a dilemma, however the GOP have the levers of power in Jan. They’ll likely as not restart the gov and take credit while blaming the Dems for the interruption in services.

      The DNC need to start doing something very simple. They need to highlight every single fucking policy that harms the pocket books of the common voter. Then they need to divest from PACs and talk about getting rid of Citizens United. Finally they need to promote a higher minimum wage and start siding with Unions again.

      However none of this will happen, because if they were willing to do that, Harris would be in the Whitehouse in Jan and they’d have the congressional super majority.

      The only Dems that won their last elections did so on a platform of fuck the rich.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        194·
        1 day ago

        The DNC need to start doing something very simple. They need to highlight every single fucking policy that harms the pocket books of the common voter. Then they need to divest from PACs and talk about getting rid of Citizens United. Finally they need to promote a higher minimum wage and start siding with Unions again.

        …and which billionaire owned news outlet will actually cover boring stuff like that instead of whatever new antics the idiot Trump is up to today?

        It would literally require a home-grown network of journalists and news organizations that aren’t owned by oligarchs to make it happen, and even then, would anyone even read or watch it?

        Democrats could run on all of that, but who would even get told?

        Nah, they need to figure out that crazy shit is what grabs news headlines, and they need to start laying down positive-but-crazy shit. Start at “jail all billionaires” and then make a compromise of “only taxing them at 100%.” If they start with something crazy the news will cover it. The news would flip out at something like jail all billionaires, and it would catch tons of media attention, and then they can pare the issue down to something reasonable.

        Shut down congress, start making crazy demands, watch the news cover it all. That’s literally all Trump’s strategy has ever been, so why are we ignoring what works. Media covers him because he says bombastic shit all the time that upsets people. That’s literally the main reason they cover him so much.

        Think about if we had a congress that was shutting down over trans youth healthcare? Forcing a shutdown so we can ensure trans youth can get the help they need. Like literally go after the hotbutton issues that Republicans lose their shit over. Make the media cover it.

        • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
          45·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, that’s genius! Let’s make it so the DNC is completely indistinguishable from the GOP and feed into the outrage loop that the media has been leveraging since the 80’s. It’s not like that’s exactly what Harris tried in the campaign she just lost.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            93·
            1 day ago

            How did Harris try that exactly? By calling them weird? Oh she didn’t go as far as standing up for American citizens with crazy out-there ideas? Oh all her ideas were starting from a position of compromise with Republicans to begin with?

            What the fuck are you talking about? The most “outrageous” she got was calling them weird. She wasn’t demanding billionaires in shackles. Give me a break.

    • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      9·
      1 day ago

      I think the major issue with that idea is that the pain of a government shutdown is not equally felt by Republicans and Democrats. Republicans actively want to disrupt or destroy a lot of the government functions anyways, so they don’t really care when all of those things are temporarily shut down. If anything, it gives them what they want.

    • adarzaEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      but if we still have the purse strings, let’s cut off their ability to do shit by fucking defunding them.

      i expect republicants to go ‘nuclear’ and get rid of the filibuster right away, at least for the upcoming session. they don’t need two-thirds or even just 60 votes to do that.

      they’ll pass anything and everything they want, confirm appointments of anyone they want, without regard to opposition from anyone… all with a simple majority.