GOP lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote
GOP lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote
Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) was caught selling stock for a company providing Medicaid exchanges just days before President Donald Trump's so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill" was expected to pass with drastic cuts to the program.Quiver Quantitative first reported that Bresnahan recently began selling hi...
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Why didn't Chuck Schumer do more to stop this?
He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.
But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.
Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.
House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.
Every democrat and one republican voted agianst this bill.
What else do you think they can do?
Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests
Back left wing candidates
Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.
other stuff that moderators don't like
Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
Yeah, perfectly reasonable expectation... Sometimes it feels like talking to children on this site I swear.
I don't understand why literally every Democrat in the Senate didn't line up to filibuster this bill. Booker's performative filibuster was toothless. This could actually have done something to change public policy.
You can't filibuster a bill using the reconciliation process.
That's a procedural rule I wasn't aware of. Thanks for the clarification.
In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don't know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it
Apparently they’re not even allowed an open floor to talk, but Hakeem Jeffries at least took the opportunity for 08:44
That's the house, and only because it was a bill passed back to the house, after previous passage, to review senate revisions. Otherwise they would have been allowed to debate much more if this was the first time the house had the bill.
i said this the other day and got downvoted to hell, in addition to people telling me "well they did filibuster it"
Yes. Because it was filibustered for a day.
"They did the thing i wanted but i said they didn't and i don't understand why people don't agree with me"
Why did it only go on a day, why didnt it go longer? There are no rules stating they can't.
You already know the reason, someone else already said why. I'm not going to get drawn into a circlejerk argument with you just because you refuse reality.
We all knew it was going to get passed. But if they did it for two days.. Donald be crying, because he can’t sign it on the 4th. That’s what I was hoping.
I'd rather have people do realistic things than grandstand because it's entertaining.
That stuff that moderators don't like is about all we can do at this point. What legal recourse do we have? Voting? Lmao
How does backing canisates do anything to stop a bill?
What are "moderators" in government?
I meant more generally, so democrats can win elections and then win votes. It's something they should have been doing for the past decade. Look at how the democratic party is treating Zohran for an example of how not to do it.
You fight the battle you're in.
And agian, what are government moderators?
And agian, what are government moderators?
Oh, sorry. I meant the moderators of lemmy.world. If you say anything too spicy, your comment gets removed
Sharpen the guillotine
I can't disagree with this.
He forced them to change the name so take that 😏
Maybe next time and everytime go out and vote blue so they have even a chance of doing something to stop it.
Elections have consequences.
According to Pew, Trump would have won even if everyone had turned out to vote.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
I didn't know my faith in the American population could drop any lower. thanks for that
His printer must have run out of the "Strongly Worded Letter" paper.