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Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds

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That's the way it should be. Shut it down until he stops trying to be a petty little dictator.
- Okay, but what if the news calls Dems "Obstructionist". Then they should fold instantly and apologize, right?
  
  Shit, I forgot that was the dem's only weakness.
  
  Don't forget to say thank you....
- Fuck Schummer and the other 9 people that were successfully bribed by GOP.
- They have no voting power. The GOP rules all three branches, so they could sit out every vote and they would still pass.
  
  They can use, and in fact could have used, the filibuster. That's supposedly the reason they've kept the damn thing for so long.
  
  This is what gets me. I see so much they are not doing enough but boy we really fucked ourselves in that last election. Im betting even many republicans voted assuming trump would not win. All the same there have been votes that many democrats have pissed me off with but then there have also been things where they got a lot of flak but I saw as the smart move. Like not letting the shutdown happen. Trump would be estatic to say various agencies have to be shut down because congress and not because he is ripping them apart. Those confirmations though. eff that. no votes for unless that person has a background appropriate to the job.
It's a fair point. Wtf is the point of the budget I'd the government can just decide not to spend the money as they were instructed?
BUT if they do that they may ANGER Republican Voters who would Literally rather DIE then to Vote Democrat!
Elizabeth, that requires balls, which Schumer and Jeffries lack.
All of America should collectively refuse to do anything until Trump is out of office
It seems like the Dems are not doing enough. There is so much more that they could do, even though the GOP is in charge of all 3 branches of government.
Sigh. She has good ideas but she's an awful politician. "Oh let's make the CFPB a totally independent thing that exists outside the normal boundaries of the constitution - THAT'LL WORK OUT GREAT GUYS!"
- Oh let’s make the CFPB a totally independent thing that exists outside the normal boundaries of the constitution
  Republican politicians will tell you that a tepid regulatory body fully vested under the Commerce Clause is illegal, then snatch children off the streets and disappear them without so much as a court hearing and insist they've fulfilled the wettest dreams of the Founding Fathers.
  "Constitutionalism" is a fucking joke. It's Calvinball straight up to the SCOTUS and anyone who actually has to navigate this corrupt, fascist legal system knows it.
  
  So - we should crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?
- It literally has. The Republicans have been trying to shut it down for years because they couldn't corrupt it as easily. That it's becoming toothless now only through extreme measures isn't a flaw in the structure. Everything solidly in the executive is either as bad or worse. And this after being one of the most effective pro little guy organizations in government, including through the first Trump administration.
  The CFPB is one of the few unmitigated Democratic successes in recent memory.

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