No time like the present to call your Senators and ask them to vote No on cloture for the continuing resolution until the Musk/Trump administration stops their lawbreaking
No time like the present to call your Senators and ask them to vote No on cloture for the continuing resolution until the Musk/Trump administration stops their lawbreaking
The best argument I’ve heard against Dems filibustering the CR is that a filibuster would mean that they would - in the eyes of the public - take responsibility for the shutdown, and that the public would blame them for EVERYTHING wrong with the country now, including all of the Trump/Musk messes.
Which is insane to me. Allowing the CR to go through would cause much more direct harm, show that the Dems don’t really care about opposing this insanity, and - if we’re worried about PR - allow the GOP to blame future problems on Biden since they’re marketing the CR as a continuation of Biden’s budget when it’s really nothing of the sort.
This is precisely the time to use the filibuster. If the GOP wants to remove it, let them. They’ll own it, and if the Dems ever get back into power, it’ll help them tremendously.
“The president is, through Elon Musk and DOGE, trying to illegally seize the power of the purse from Congress by unilaterally shutting down programs that congress funded and Americans rely on. If we don’t use every tool available to us to protect the separation of powers, we would be in violation of the oaths we swore to protect and defend the constitution.”
Thats all they should need to say. This is a pretty black and white situation.
They need to hear their constituents saying it to have a backbone
precisely, they need to hear from us. thanks for posting!
It’s not all they need to say. They need to expound upon it at great length in a traditional (real) filibuster.
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