It's actually worse. With the pocket recision that has already been used, the administration has literally demonstrated that they will rescind any deal they don't want to pay for. Frankly, the only way to negotiate in good faith would be some legal measure passed and tested by the courts (because the pocket recision used to be illegal until this SCOTUS ruled in favor of it, like just in time for this budget needing to be passed), guaranteeing that the administration will fund what Congress has appropriated funds for.

Maine is working on it, at least.

Listing Maine’s as independent makes it odd to list them as Democratic.

He's just appeasing the Nazis. It worked back in WW2

I just feel bad though now that others have to stand in a food line. But I agree.

I feel like a dramatic dissolution should be a possibility considered, but I don't really expect us to come out of it with a new people-focused government. Likely if the budget never gets passed Trump decides he doesn't need Congress and just starts spending money as he wishes. He'll even start with funding something the people want, then once it's established that he can just spend money and no one will stop him, he'll move on to the instruments of oppression. When the military is directly being paid by the president, we'll see how much of their oath is really to the Constitution.

Manchin was a democrat from a very right wing state. He never hid his views and that he was going to be very right wing democrat.

Fetterman said he was a progressive, ran as a progressive, and went hard right wing when he got in office. Yeah the brain damage changed him but I think he was always a Republican in Democrat clothes.

Why hasn't he been kicked out yet?

Last time they did that, sales of Treasuries actually went up. Quixotically, the downgrade hurt the stock market. People divested of equities. And then they needed to move the money to a safe place. So.... uh.... Treasuries.

Seems like he thinks the shutdown is actually better for Trump-

https://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/03/15/the-ten-democrats-who-voted-to-avert-a-federal-government-shutdown

Well, it doesn’t take balls to do nothing—buuuut, yes hold the line.

....what? Are you sure you've been to Pennsylvania?

Fetterman can get fucked though, I'm with you there

That depends on whether someone in PA can assemble the resources needed to primary him.

Oct 16 - Daily Beast

Top-ranking Democratic Party officials in Pennsylvania are gearing up to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest, according to a report.

Big names in the state who could well run against the increasingly embattled incumbent include House Representatives Brendan Boyle and Chris Deluzio, along with former Congressman Conor Lamb, Axios reports, citing multiple inside sources.

Axios added it was not clear whether Fetterman, who is understood to have ambitions of running for the White House, plans to run again for the Senate or the presidency in 2028.

Fetterman texted Axios saying, “enjoy your clickbait!” and requested “please do not contact” in response to follow-up questions. He also shared an article citing him as one of “the least Trump-aligned Democratic lawmakers in the state.”

Who likes him?