disguy_ovahea @ disguy_ovahea @lemmy.world

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I’m with you. Either pay attention or hold your criticism of the only people actively trying to stop the Trump administration.

Democrats voted and spoke out against Trump’s cabinet nominations, forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s executive order, confirmed Biden’s pending judicial appointments when Republican attendance is low, and are the ones bringing these cases to the courts. They are doing everything they can to stop this from the minority.

They’re doing plenty more than this, but they’re not self-promoting enough for people to notice. Democrats voted and spoke out against Trump’s cabinet nominations, forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s executive order, confirmed Biden’s pending judicial appointments when Republican attendance is low, and are the ones bringing these cases to the courts.

This is to obstruct fast-tracked appointments by Trump according to C-SPAN. Other than that, you’re right.

The Democrats forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s emergency executive order, and Republicans redefined the entire congressional calendar as a single day, just to avoid holding the vote.

Every last Republican in Congress is complicit.

Only if the Republicans in Congress weren’t too chickenshit to actually put their names on these actions. Trump is doing everything by executive order.

You don’t understand what a CR is if you think it’s permanent. A continuing resolution is stopgap funding when a budget reconciliation fails to be passed.

Read the link I provided. It explains how Trump’s existing executive order grants him the ability to refuse return on non-essential employees under three conditions. A lack of funding is one of them.

As for why he didn’t veto, I honestly don’t know. It’s a good question. Maybe he’s trying to win his indiscriminate termination hearings in appeal first? He’ll have another chance in September, since the CR is temporary.

What do you mean “rubber stamp everything?” Sensationalism is very unhelpful to people who prefer to pay attention to the actions of our government.

The dilemma with passing this budget is choosing between giving temporary funding to the corrupt administration, or shutting down non-essential departments allowing Trump to terminate any and all non-essential government employees.

I’m all for criticism of poor choices, but this was a lose/lose. Neither option was good for the nation.

https://archive.ph/2025.03.31-231407/https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-complains-un-about-trumps-reckless-belligerent-remarks-2025-03-31/

https://archive.ph/2025.03.31-231407/https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-complains-un-about-trumps-reckless-belligerent-remarks-2025-03-31/

That’s what his assistant told me when I demanded an explanation for his dissent. Now I need to confirm if that’s true. I’m going to flip out when I call later if they fucking lied to me!

Edit: It appears to be true. A lack of funding would justify large scale reduction in force in accordance with Trump’s Executive Order 14210. I’m still going to ask for details when I call later.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/don-t-use-shutdown-plans-to-slash-the-federal-workforce

I didn’t watch Rubio’s confirmation hearing, so thanks for the correction.

He’s ignoring injunctions, not rulings. He can only be held in contempt of court until the cases have been ruled.

I’m not lying, but I may be uninformed. What I else could they be doing from the minority? I’ll add it to the list when I call and message my Representative and Senator.

We get ~20% turnout in congressional primaries, yet people call for term limits. Either stump and vote for better representation or accept that these people are at least trying to stop the nation from burning down. Apathy or actionless criticism will get us nowhere.

A shutdown from a failed budget would have expedited Project 2025. The President determines who operates during a shutdown, and who returns afterwards. DOGE would keep cutting, ICE would keep deporting, and Trump would keep writing executive orders. When it ended, Trump could refuse to return any hired government employees as his discretion.

Edit: Downvote if you want, but this is important information. The CR was a temporary resolution. There will be another budget vote in September, and they’ll have to decide if a large-scale reduction in workforce is worth the leverage over the budget.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/don-t-use-shutdown-plans-to-slash-the-federal-workforce

That’s fair. I’m not sure of Garland’s motive to delay, other than a lack of constitution. Cannon was quite overtly playing games with the hearing and calendar, so she took the heat.

I’m reading articles now that say this technically isn’t a filibuster, but a protest speech. C-SPAN called it a filibuster, so I assumed it was one. I guess we’ll see when it’s over.

No problem! I keep seeing comments that the Democrats just hold signs, which tells me no one watches C-SPAN anymore. Lol

They voted and spoke out against every last cabinet nominee, forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s emergency executive order, confirm Biden’s pending judge appointments when Johnson and Cruz are absent, and are bringing most of the cases to the courts to challenge Trump.

As a whole, they’re doing everything they can from the minority. We will still need to primary out the deadwood centrists in favor of progressives that will actually drive change once in power, otherwise we’ll just set up another stagnant term.

Schumer is there asking Booker questions to give him a break. This is the first time the filibuster has been applicable this term, but the Democrats have been working. They’re confirming Biden’s pending judicial appointments whenever Republican attendance is low, they voted down every cabinet nomination, and are the ones taking the cases to the courts.

It’s a solo filibuster, but Schumer has been asking questions to give Booker a break. This is the first time a filibuster has been applicable this term. Congress hasn’t been passing legislation. All of the damage has been done by executive order.

Edit: Murphy, Kim, and Gillibrand have also joined in with lengthy multi-part questions to support Booker.

That would require the Republicans in Congress to actually pass legislation. All they’ve done is repeal the CFPB overdraft rule with a simple majority and pass the CR, neither of which can be filibustered.

It depends on where you live. Believe it or not, kids still care for their elderly parents in some nations.

He was charged. Judge Cannon postponed the hearing past the election. How is that on Democrats?

It’s almost like accredited global economists know more about tariffs than a serial bankrupting felon convicted of criminal business fraud. Who’d have thought?