Government Shutdown

[Dill]

(09-21-2023, 12:45 PM)GMDino Wrote: From what I skimmed last night, and I have not delved too deeply unfortunately, it seem the group is about 116 members?

FIVE members blocked bringing one deal to a vote, along with Democrats....though I did read somewhere that two may have changed their minds now on a slightly different proposal.

Democrats are not going to ever agree to billions in cuts to social services, including Social Security which has little to nothing to do with the debt, and no cuts to anything else.  That's not negotiating in good faith at all.

Nonetheless this is a GOP problem when McCarthy is cancelling votes because he doesn't have the votes.  

Most voters can see the easy solution:

Democrats give in to the cuts wanted by Trump and a House MAGA clique.

But how many will really see Dem backbone as "both sidesism" in this case?

As in "both sides" put the country at risk every time one side runs us up to a shutdown and refuses to compromise.