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Pissed At What Chuck Just Got Through? Call Your Senators (if Dems) and Tell Them to Remove Him From Senate Leadership
(piefed.social)
Cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/27194393:
House dems are PISSED at what Schumer just did. This is the case where outside voices are maximally helpful - when people on the inside of the party want him out. Let's build continued pressure. This will not happen overnight, it will happened when we keep the pressure consistently high
How would shutting down the government give the president more power to cause chaos?
The shutdown would potentially give Trump leeway to indefinitely furlough federal employees.
You know who else doesn't get paid during a shutdown? The military. The fucking military! You think they'd forget about a one, two, or three week shutdown when Trump tries to use them to enforce martial law to "cancel" an election or subdue protests?
No, they remember, they always remember. They would just pass a temporarily permanent funding exception to continue funding the police, military, concentration camps, and other select operations at Donald choosing. Keeping the government turned in at least gives dems a platform to fight back. I don't love it and it feels gross but also I kinda get it.
He was already going to fire them anyway. I’m not really sure how it matters either way. Giving Trump the power of the purse just alllws him to make these firings legal.