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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)
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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

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 months ago (5 children)

“This was not an easy decision,” Cortez Masto, who represents a state that Trump carried last year, said in a statement. “I’m outraged by the reckless actions of President Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans in control of Congress, so I refuse to hand them a shutdown where they would have free rein to cause more chaos and harm.”

How would shutting down the government give the president more power to cause chaos?

[–] BaldProphet@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The shutdown would potentially give Trump leeway to indefinitely furlough federal employees.

[–] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

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.

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