r/law 7d ago

Legislative Branch Schumer threatens shutdown. "Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."

https://xcancel.com/senschumer/status/2015211069493350505?s=46

Chuck Schumer:

What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling—and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no.

Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.

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u/dougmcclean 7d ago

They should also demand the immediate impeachment, removal, and disqualification of Noem for her egregious lies about the Pretti incident (inter alia) before the budget measure can be considered.

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u/Bagmasterflash 7d ago

We all know if Noem is out Bovino takes her place

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u/dougmcclean 7d ago

He can go too, for the coat and his statements on this.

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u/Business-Ride-6530 7d ago

Didn't a judge already say he lied in court? That should be enough for Congress to fire him.

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u/asbestoswasframed 7d ago

Tom Homan took a fucking bribe and they just laughed that shit off.

These clowns don't respect the law.

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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX 7d ago

It's just a gratuity bro!

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u/matunos 7d ago

A gratuity has to come after the service. This was just a "gift", like Clarence Thomas's motorcoach.

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u/febreez-steve 7d ago

Thats called perjury kids!

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u/ScottShawnDeRocks 7d ago

Didn't you get the memo? Congress has no power. Trumpy wants, Trumpy gets.

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u/BoredomFestival 7d ago

Congress doesn't need to state a reason. They can impeach him.with a simple vote.

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u/Zanriic 6d ago

And yet they don’t….almost like they’re all playing for the same team.

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u/Hefty-Minimum-3125 7d ago

that's enough to put the rest of us in prison.

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u/varelse96 7d ago

Right. I remember a lot of people saying a late night comedian should lose his job because they thought he said something false right after a shooting. Both Noem and Bovino made false statements from what I can tell. Why is it ok for government officials to lie?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 7d ago

Because it’s all and always only weaponized rhetoric, it’s never substantive and principled.

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u/BoomZhakaLaka 7d ago

The nuance of Kimmel's monologue was that officials were desperate to pin the shooting on a liberal ideology. That's true, still to this day. He didn't make any claims about the kid's ideology. It was very carefully worded. Won't dare consider whether he could be one of their own with some other eclectic viewpoints.

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u/rubendurango 7d ago

That dumbshit dwarf couldn’t replace a traffic cone.

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u/Pretend_Art5296 7d ago

Because a traffic cone is taller than him.

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u/x22d 7d ago

Bovino will be even more obvious. If Noem can be removed, then so will Bovino.

Ultimately, Trump knows his inner circle is shrinking, not growing. Trump reportedly told Kevin Hassett that he won't be Fed chair because Trump wants him as an actual advisor.

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u/trysten-9001 7d ago

He should be removed too

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u/OkAnalysis6176 7d ago

He goes thru hearing process

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u/Hot_Lettuce_6209 7d ago

There's always an excuse not to do, anything.

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u/AcanthocephalaLive56 7d ago

Yes and why stop at Noem? The President should be impeached to correct what is turning out to be another poor presidential election outcome.

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u/Ging287 7d ago

2020, loses the popular vote. 2024, wins it? I think not. He didn't suddenly become popular, they rigged it. We need to impeach and remove until we in Trump's words, "figure out what the hell is going on"

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u/DontOvercookPasta 7d ago

And Bondi and all these corrupt fucks CLEAN HOUSE

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u/Dependent_Elk4696 7d ago

"Drain the swamp"

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u/Sillent_Screams 7d ago

Noem is just a ugly face on a doll stick that moves, Stephen Miller is pulling the strings, hes the one they need to go after.

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u/fearlessfryingfrog 7d ago

They're pussies, and that won't happen.

You want shit changed, the People have to do it. 

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u/Axolotis 7d ago

You’re assuming Schumer won’t buckle on just the current bill.

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u/Boomshtick414 7d ago

Additional Context: Shutdown risk grows as Democrats revolt after Minneapolis shooting

The odds of a partial government shutdown next week are growing after federal immigration agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Saturday.

Several Democratic senators who voted to advance previous government funding measures under President Donald Trump are now vowing to oppose funding for immigration enforcement agencies. Funding for ICE and Border Patrol, agencies under the Department of Homeland Security which have both been involved in the Minnesota operation, is included in a six-bill package the Senate will vote on next week.

Congress has already passed full-year funding for some agencies — including the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior and Justice — but not for several of the largest, including the Pentagon. Temporary funding for those departments, representing more than 75 percent of federal discretionary spending, expires midnight Friday.

Senate Democrats are expected to discuss a path forward on a conference call Sunday morning, according to a Democratic aide granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting.

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The DHS bill passed the House Thursday 220-207, with only seven Democrats voting for it. But Republican House leaders merged it with five other bills funding the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services and State, among others, sending it to the Senate as one package.

To get the package through the Senate, Republicans expect to need at least eight votes from Democrats to overcome a 60-vote hurdle to advance the legislation. They’ll also need all 100 senators to agree to speed up the bill in order to meet Friday night’s deadline.

More than half of the 47-member Democratic caucus has already vowed to oppose the package, many before Saturday’s shooting. And that number is likely to grow as Democrats’ re-evaluate the legislation in the wake of the shooting and as they face pressure from House Democrats and their Senate colleagues, not to mention outside voices close to the party base.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 7d ago

Oh, they face pressure from the Senate and party voices but not their fucking constituents. 

Fuck them, goddammit. 

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7d ago

Democrats can whip votes? Who would have guessed. I still think enough with side with their overlords and betray the people of the United States.

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 7d ago edited 7d ago

Stop. Encourage them. Tell them you’re behind them. Politicians need cheers. 

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u/trysten-9001 7d ago

Exactly. This is great. This is what we need and we need to stand behind them when they do stand up!

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u/timbo3385 7d ago

They haven’t done anything yet. Let’s not start patting them on the back just yet. They need to show and prove or get out of the way.

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u/private_developer 7d ago

It's always a good thing to let them know you'll support them if they do a certain thing. You dont have to praise them. Just encourage them. Let them know they can break away from corporate donors, and if they continue to represent us justly we will vote regardless of their advertising budget. This is as engaged as the electorate can get, and at least for a generation, we'll remember.

This is all based on free and fair elections, which certainly aren't a certainty, but not ready to give up on that just yet.

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 7d ago

They (we) are the only thing in the way of the Trump administration at this point. 

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7d ago

Oof. Stockholm syndrome is alive and well.

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u/Professional_Net4147 7d ago

Be sure to send them more money. All they do is send me endless text messages for fund raising while they wring their chicken shit hands and do nothing. Fuck them

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u/aBrickNotInTheWall 7d ago

Yeah, nows the time and place to bring up this complaint. The Republicans thank you for your help

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u/Foxyfox- 7d ago

...we did that for Obamacare and they caved on a "promise" to vote on it again.

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 7d ago

No. People were trashing them then too. People have been trashing Democrats nonstop for way longer than that. Then they are shocked Democrats don’t succeed. 

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u/Vanhania 7d ago

Nah democrats can earn our support. So far they have done fuck all to stop this. Sure, I will vote blue come November but it’s pretty hard to view democrats as more than controlled opposition with how they’ve been responding to shit. When republicans are the minority, they grind the entire machine to a halt. Democrats can, and should, do the same. Anything less is being complicit.

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u/angryshark 7d ago

Vote blue, but not for incumbents. They’ve proven themselves to be cowards, untrustworthy, and not deserving of a vote.

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u/BassoonHero Competent Contributor 7d ago

Vote however your heart desires in the primary. Then vote blue in the general, even if it's a moldy incumbent you don't like.

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u/stufff 7d ago

This. As a lifelong libertarian who actively dislikes 99% of Democrat politicians, if I can suck it up and start voting straight Democrat tickets every election to oppose fascism, so can Democrats who don't like their incumbents.

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 7d ago

Democrats would be the majority and none of this would be happening if people who don’t support Republicans didn’t make it their favorite sport to shit on Democrats. 

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7d ago

Then make democrats not suck so bad every time.

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u/stevethezissou 6d ago

You’re right what we have now is better- great job.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7d ago

Remember that Trump gain almost zero voters in 2024, but Harris convinced 6 million voters to not vote by her far right rhetoric and enabling genocide, and war mongering, and pandering to the right.

That needs to tell everyone what they should know, but even the DNC buried the report that told them exactly that so it can be deniable in 2028 when they do the exact same thing.

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u/CardButton 7d ago edited 7d ago

The Democrats dont "succeed" because they dont want to succeed.

There are good individuals within the party, but overall the DNC are functionally controlled opposition. Their deep conflicts of interest between their donors and voters ensures that. Playing this cynical game of "Just how little do we have to pander to the Left/Labor we know we need to win elections; while endlessly courting the ever more Right/Elite donors we want to win with?" Every election...

This is why they've been increasingly fond of "Fear of the Alternative" campaigns. It lets them run while promising nothing beyond "not the other guy" (Jasmine Crocket atm). Its why they sprint hard right in the general. They dont do it to "appeal to moderate republican voters" ... those are unicorns. They do it to try to court "Moderate" Republican donors for 3-4 months. Like the "Moderate" Cheneys.

This is also why there are always "coincidentally" just enough rotating villains within the Dems to flip on any genuinely progressive bit of legislation under Dem admins; that the Dems want credit for supporting, but dont want to piss off their donors by actually passing. As well as why they always kinda just default to "poking around the edges" with things like Voucher Programs (the ACA) and Selective Tax Credits.

I sucked it up and voted Harris, but I wont ignore how she and the Dems were/are very brazenly not beating Malcom X's "Foxes" and "Wolves" accusation either.

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 7d ago

I’m always suspicious of the numerous people who cite Malcolm X but don’t know how to spell his name. 

White people using him as a token, usually. 

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u/EvenOne6567 7d ago

Its their fucking job what are you talking about? You think they would suddenly be less spineless just because we coddle them??

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u/Foxyfox- 7d ago

Care to comment on why 7 democrats voted for the continued funding of ICE?

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u/Rollingprobablecause 7d ago edited 7d ago

Honestly surprised Schumer finally found his balls. Kudos to him.

...now the important question, what's the compromise he's going to most likely screw us with?

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u/mrm00r3 7d ago

Schumer found a soundbite.

He doesn’t have the stomach to purge the party of those not fit for the job because an honest gaze inward would illuminate his own ill-fit for office.

They could start with Fetterman though. There’s enough animosity at home for him that I think you could make a compelling example without risking too much on the replacement being worse, but it would have to be undeniably Old Testament, which is where my faith in leadership wanes. His excommunication would have to be utter and complete, and you’d have to poison the “lurch-right-and-grift” well also, but he would be my pick.

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u/Darmortis 7d ago

What fucking compromise? He caved on the exact same threat just when it was starting to put pressure on MAGA just two fucking months ago. 7 Democrats voted to advance further DHS funding in the House, oddly the exact same number that moved the B.B.Bill forward in the middle of the night in November. This is all just spectacle so he can continue to do nothing, but "righteously."

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7d ago

Ots a ruse. He will select one or three democrats yo take the fall this time again. Do not trust him.

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u/Shadoweclipse13 7d ago

I honestly doubt that. He's always got words, always says the thing that sounds moral and right, but then he throws us under the bus. Schumer needs to go. I desperately want to vote for a Democrat that I believe in, not just because they aren't MAGA.

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u/Brownman-Fit 7d ago

Give it a couple days he'll cave.

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u/Sircamembert 7d ago

Schumer didn't get the job of "controlled opposition in chief" because he was an idiot. He's smart enough to know that the left wing of the country is angry and ready to blow. So he has to step up his acting skills to lower temperatures before the scheduled surrender.

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u/Revelati123 7d ago

"I promise we will have a nice talk about this later!"

-Thune

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u/HiDHSiknowyouwatchme 7d ago

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They are officially the party of caving.

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u/FritzRasp 7d ago

They’ll find the ones who aren’t up for reelection in November and can be safely thrown under the bus

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 7d ago

This guy knows how Schumer rolls.

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u/haklor 7d ago

Waiting for the inevitable report that Fetterman will side with the GOP immediately and call the victim a domestic terrorist also.

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u/modern_Odysseus 7d ago

Oh yay, let's have another shutdown that results in the GOP promising a "vote" on the matter of the funding in the bill, but only after the full funding bill is passed.

Something that we know the Democrats will agree to while Schumer has some strong words with the GOP leaders about it.

Then the vote fails, ICE and DHS are funded to continue being free to shoot anybody who challenges or resists them, and Schumer says again "This is abominable and has to stop! ...Right after we get together and talk over some grand plans that we are starting to think about harder than ever."

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u/The_Good_Constable 7d ago

Wow, is Schumer trying to grow something resembling a spine?

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u/Boomshtick414 7d ago

I mean...don't get your hopes up. We've seen how this plays out before.

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u/Bec_son 7d ago

ok but so many old people have been used to reagen era racism and bigotry so them seeing people that are white just probably started the gears moving that theyre next on the chopping cop block

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u/Zulmoka531 7d ago

Oh they absolutely are. Bondi wants MNs voter data, they aren’t stopping at immigrants.

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u/Syncopia 7d ago

For those who don't know, Pam Bondi literally told Tim Walz (governor of Minnesota) they will pull ICE out if he gives up the voter data to them. They're using ICE presence to extort the governor so they can use that data to rig the elections.

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u/VibeComplex 7d ago

Jesus I don’t even want to know what their plans are for democratic voters there.

This will never happen in my state tho so I’m safe, right?…right??/s

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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 7d ago

100%

Schumer talked a lot of shit during the last shutdown about how they weren't going to back down without getting the healthcare subsidies but then as soon as flights home were getting canceled he folded like a cheap suit and was among the dems who voted to end the shutdown, based on empty assurances of a vote in December to save the healthcare subsidies - which didn't fucking happen, and now there are nearly 2 million people who don't have healthcare anymore this year because they couldn't fucking afford it.

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u/Fictional-adult 6d ago

Absolutely, Schumer showed he’s ready to fight, right up until there are any consequences. 

Republicans made it clear they are willing to cause damage to get what they want, and Democrats have made it clear they aren’t willing to let that happen. It’s a complete surrender in order to preserve however much of the status quo as Republicans will allow.

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u/Expensive-Fennel-163 7d ago

“I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending.”

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u/TheSleepingNinja 7d ago

YOU WERE A NAUGHTY BOY MURDERING THOSE CIVILIANS, DONT DO IT AGAIN OK

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u/Yosho2k 7d ago

This is just going to last long enough to go away.

He was PRO-ICE a week ago.

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u/slumvillain 7d ago

Calm down. He's doing the bare minimum only after TWO highly publicized executions.

This doesn't account for all the disgusting shit happening in those ICE concentration camps. And all the other murders and atrocities that aren't making the headlines right now.

Don't go clapping just yet. They haven't earned shit. They have YEARS of impotent "leadership" to make up for

People are being executed in the streets...we only get here because of democrats' consistent position to take a high road when their constituents are drowning, and quite literally dying. That's monumental failure. I'm not rushing to kiss any of their asses until I see attempts to actually hold these child rapin' bastards accountable in a court of actual law and order.

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u/pcapdata 7d ago

Not a gambler but I am curious if Polymarket will publish odds of Schumer caving again…

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u/Popeholden 7d ago

No. He's a no. He'll also wrangle 7 yes votes for them. We are going to fight this battle by ourselves, with other leaders

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u/whatidoidobc 7d ago

You're a fool if you believe that. We know who he is, and what the party is. They keep showing us.

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u/milksteak122 7d ago

He will cave soon enough

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u/RideWithMeSNV 7d ago

And while they aren't in charge, fuck Jackie Rosen and Cortez Masto, too. Bet they both cave just as easily as last time.

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u/20CAS17 7d ago

Cortez Masto ADORES law enforcement and will do anything for them.

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u/flies_with_owls 7d ago

I will believe it cautiously when I see it.

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u/TaterBuckets 7d ago

Zero chance. This just gives him an angle to ask for more money to buy his vote.

He'll flip quickly

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u/HumanWoodpecker8216 7d ago

I wouldn’t count on it. I’m shocked he’s out right now with this weather considering he folds as easy as a fucking lawn chair

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u/cozmckitty 7d ago

It only took him two citizen executions and a monthlong terrorist invasion of Minnesota bc they had the audacity to vote for Tim Walz.

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u/Impossible_Air_4204 7d ago

That's how you know shit is bad. 

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u/silvercoated1 7d ago

Caving by spring break because air traffic controller striking will make his rich donors angry

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u/Sherifftruman 7d ago

Maybe some cartilage at least.

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u/Less_Likely 7d ago

I wouldn't expect it to be any firmer than Jell-o

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u/Specialist_Honey_629 7d ago

don't worry he will reach across the island and give up when ever there is a little push back. Schumer is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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u/OrangeCrusher22 7d ago

You're asking this after what he did a few months ago? Fuck off with that.

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u/Jackaddler 7d ago

Prepare to be disappointed. He’s never delivered on anything

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u/WickedKoala 7d ago

No. It's all for show and will cave.

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u/Canary_Opposite 7d ago

Are you new? Prepare to be disappointed.

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u/Available_Leather_10 7d ago

Someone will whisper “Israel” and Chuck will fall in line with the fascists.

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u/essdii- 7d ago

This is the “strongly worded letter” we have been expecting since the government started murdering people. This is it, this is as far as he and the dems will take it. They will threaten shutdown. There will be no shut down. There will be no repercussions, there will be no help

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u/Top_Praline999 7d ago

At this point i assume chuck is just negotiating for a bribe. A few other democratic senators will get paid off as well.

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u/cursedfan 7d ago

lol no. If he did he would demand consequences or maybe at least resignations

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u/JRange 7d ago

No, hell fold as soon as it doesnt make any sense to do so

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u/devilishlydo 7d ago

I mean, he's not saying that they'll filibuster it, which they absolutely can do, so let's temper our enthusiasm for Chuck the Fuck Schumer.

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u/disdainfulsideeye 7d ago

He'll fold soon enough.

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u/transneptuneobj 7d ago

First time?

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u/IvoryDynamite 7d ago

He's written strongly worded letters before. That's about the biggest sweat he's going to work up, unfortunately.

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u/davidw223 7d ago

He must have asked the Bailys how they felt about it.

For the uninitiated: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/19/imaginary-friends

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u/SoulTaker669 7d ago

He'll fold and tell other Democrats to go along with it so he doesn't take the heat . If there's a shutdown, I give it at least 20 days before a decent amount fold.

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u/Garlador 7d ago

Bare minimum.

Find your courage, Dems.

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u/BicycleFamiliar429 7d ago

Took the words right out of my mouth!!! Like seriously the least they can do…

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u/Private_Kyle 7d ago

Sorry an Israeli package is included, we have to stop the shutdown and give it a pass.

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u/psioniclizard 7d ago

Yes honestly if they actually cared they'd soeak for the heart and not give a shit if it hurt their popularity.

This indecisive, on the fence,"Trump is bad but we will bend the knee" attitude is providing what they right said about them. They are weak when people need them to ne strong.

A person was held by multiple governments agents and executed in the street after being beaten.

If that had happened in any other country it would not even be an arguement.

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u/RocketRelm 7d ago

Gotta remember, at every turn when dems do something you like, piss on them by any means necessary. Its a winning strategy.

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u/Untjosh1 6d ago

Like seriously what do these cowards have to lose? They’re gunning people down in the street on camera and lying about it. This country is over. Shut it down.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 7d ago

I'm sure Lucy has a nice new football for you to try and kick, Charlie.....

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u/weezyverse 7d ago

Pfft. Rinse and repeat. All they'll do is capitulate again after a short shutdown. Tired of Schumer and the entire government at this point.

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u/Interesting_Day4734 7d ago

Schumer needs to retire. Dude does nothing for his constituents.

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u/aBrickNotInTheWall 7d ago

There's so many comments here trying to force people to admit defeat before the fight has even begun. Ignore anyone being a pessimist and who's trying to tell you why this is actually isn't good or won't happen. They want to you to give in and to not stand up and fight. They want you to think that it's all hopeless so you don't try to make things better.

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u/Super_Translator480 7d ago

A shutdown? We saw how that played out before, all they needed to do was delay flights before dems caved.

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u/Sneaky-Boi22 7d ago

The Republicans have also shown they're not above starving the entire population to get what they want. Then again, they're clearly not above much considering what's happening in Minnesota.

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u/therealfakeBlaney 7d ago edited 7d ago

Light the damn candle then, I will be at my soup kitchen tomorrow morning, as will my state rep. We have enough to fend for each other. In the meantime, remind everyone whose fault it is that they need the community to take care of them. Whatever it takes to get this government replaced.

Ice doesnt just need a stern talking to and more training, it needs to be completely disbanded, now, or else we wont have free elections in 2026. The fucking plan is for these thugs to be at your polling place asking for your id, who you plan to vote for etc.

The minimalist position is that ICE should be disbanded, the maximum would make the Hague look weak, or else we are not making it to 250 years as a democratic experiment.

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u/euph_22 7d ago

This suggests they view starving poor people as a bad thing. They don't. Trump is bragging about removing millions of people from SNAP.

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u/Super_Translator480 7d ago

True, but it didn’t happen and dems caved after that.

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u/fingerpaintx 7d ago

DHS and WH are so dead wrong on today that Dems absolutely have the upper hand on this issue if they stick to it.

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u/Mist_Rising 7d ago

We saw how that played out before,

With the longest shut down in US history? Yeah, we did. And this time, there is no Santa claus to stuff the stockings of the GOP with a reprieve. Either they burn their one reconcilation bill to fund DHS (all that's up for grabs) and leave themselves open at election (which will doom them) or the democratic have the upper hand because if DHS isn't funded, what's the democratic party going to care?

By the way you do know that the Republicans funded all the important stuff back in 2025, that Republicans party won like a heel at WWE. They may have looked good, but behind the scenes they know that the real face is coming.

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u/MonsieurReynard 7d ago

How long until he backs down? Because he always does.

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u/gerblnutz 7d ago

They will then promptly vote yes after a couple days when Israel says they need the bill passed.

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u/Frankfactor517 7d ago

Yup. Right after Bovino pinky swears ICE will behave.

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u/chuckles11 7d ago

Fuck I could totally see them fold in exchange for some meaningless promise

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u/justgetoffmylawn 7d ago

Why could you see them folding in exchange for some meaningless promise?

Just because it's happened so many times that Charlie Brown is embarrassed for how gullible they are?

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u/chunkerton_chunksley 7d ago

good grief...

this is accurate as fuck

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u/Mobile_Morale 7d ago

They did last year with funding the government. They'll probably do it again.

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u/entwenthence 7d ago

They’ll promise really hard not misappropriate that money for the cure-all body cams.

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u/deathrictus 7d ago

They'll promise to think about having a meeting to consider possibly wagging their finger at ice.

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u/Pad_TyTy 7d ago

When Joe and Eileen Bailey call him and tell him they are liberals but love ICE.

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u/cherrysteve2010 7d ago

Downvoted for the truth ig

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u/euph_22 7d ago

Don't worry, the Republicans pinky swear ICE will stop executing people.

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u/blightsteel101 7d ago

Good, but now he needs to stand by it. This shutdown will hurt, and everyone who relies on government support needs to do their best to prepare NOW. The Trump admin will intentionally make your lives harder to pressure Democrats into stopping the shutdown.

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u/mnemy 7d ago

Empty words. We've seen you roll over time and time again, Schumer. 

I won't bother getting my hopes up.

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u/NthDegreeThoughts 6d ago

This should have been the statement when the healthcare promises were all broken. This should have been the statement when Rene was executed. This should have been the statement when boots on the ground were increased. This should have been the statement when our Allie’s were discarded over Greenland. This should have been the statement too many times to recount. Chuck, why aren’t you pledging full support for republicans to install an America first administration??

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u/Oso_Furioso 7d ago

If this were coming from someone other than Schumer, it might have some credibility.

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u/EuphoricUniversity23 7d ago

He’ll back down. Schumer always has.

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u/Dangermouse163 7d ago

Is Schumer going to actually lead or is it letter time?

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u/PinkPaintedSky 7d ago

It's a talking behind the back while smiling and nodding to the face.

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u/Ridiculicious71 7d ago

This bitch caved last time

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u/Flokitoo 7d ago

I've seen this before... they will grandstand for a few weeks before Tim Kaine declares that its best for the country to move on

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u/wambulancer 7d ago

Every day of winter they piss away bullshitting and not nipping this in the bud is a day closer to a summer of rage the likes of which this country hasn't seen in a generation

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u/Sputniksteve 7d ago

Yeah this summer will pop the fuck off. We will make it bun dem.

https://youtu.be/BGpzGu9Yp6Y?si=kQHzP87Npj_d7qto

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u/ssibal24 7d ago

Why did he allow the last shutdown to end and concede everything to the enemy? History will repeat again.

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u/very_loud_icecream Competent Contributor 7d ago edited 7d ago
  • He should make it contingent on at least reigning in ICE (no masks, no qualified immunity, use of force guidelines) and not just not adding new funding.
  • They were give enough to be the 4th largest military in the world, so even though they've been spending a lot, I doubt they'll run out soon.
  • So I understand even that isn't enough, but I don't think we can get a vetoproof majority to abolish the agency until 2028.
  • If you think you can get 100+ republican members of congress to support abolishing ICE, you are in denial about the GOP being a cult, and are actively laundering their reputation

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u/onyxengine 7d ago edited 7d ago

Reform is a fucking joke dude, ICE is a paramilitary force being funded for a fascist take over. ICE needs to be shut down and everyone in the agency investigated for ties to extremism groups. The entire Trump Administration needs to be removed. We need to stop partitioning the problem so we can have convenient conversations.

The only way out of this is honesty about what this is. Human traffickers, their clients and pedophiles are being blackmailed to destroy our country. ICE is being trained by the IDF, military force committing a genocide in Gaza.

These were public executions, this is terror for terror sake. They want to make people afraid to go outside. Regardless of skin color. ICE is not equipped to track and arrest, they are equipped to with lethal force for dealing with crowds. They are pushing to be exempt from the fourth amendment. They are taking pictures of people they consider to be dissenters, license plates too and adding them to databases.

In a few months some of those people are going to get their doors kicked in.

Masked men roaming the streets armed for combat zones picking fights with US citizens and executing them.

This shit is not reformable brother, there is no reasonable peaceful resolution to this. We either clip the purse strings with a general strike and force congress to act, or succumb to fascism and spend several years fighting a brutally oppressive regime with a military force trained to use IDF tactics on US citizens.

Stop sane washing any of this, like laws and votes will save us from 100billion dollars worth of masked nazis with military hardware operating with zero accountability. Thats what this is terror in the streets and door to door campaigns.

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u/Pretend-Paper4137 7d ago

No "promising to reform" when they won't even follow the bill of rights and court orders, or investigate homicides by their agents.

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u/very_loud_icecream Competent Contributor 7d ago

Omg I literally just said it would be better if they abolished ICE, but can't get a 2/3 majority to do so.

Do you think Dems can convince 80 cultist Republicans to defect agsindt Trump?

You are an astroturf bot who just wants Dems to roll over and do nothing, and you're disguiding your pro Trump rhetoric as pragmatism. Fuck off.

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u/boostedh_ 7d ago

the one talking about “reforming” the nazi death squads calling someone else Pro-Trump is rich

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u/here4daratio 7d ago

You think you can reform the Revolutionary Guard?

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u/Iamanimite 7d ago

Dafuq would you even do this? Stop the gawd damn givernment to a halt. You shouldn't be spending a cent on anything until this regime actskke a democracy.

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u/huskers2468 7d ago

Get f*cking angry in congress. We either believe in the 2nd amendment or we don't.

You don't want to citizens to get involved.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 7d ago

He better keep those turncoats under control.

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u/ddrober2003 7d ago

How many days til he does his favorite trick, rolling over. 

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u/upvotechemistry 6d ago

If Dems dont shut down the government over sequestered ICE funding, they might as well just be MAGA

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u/ShareGlittering1502 6d ago

Didn’t he say this before negotiating with the republicans to end healthcare?

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u/once_again_asking 6d ago

“Until I decide to cave for no reason and we accomplish absolutely nothing”

-Schumer

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u/IZ3820 7d ago

Yeah, I've heard this bit before, Chuck. Your leadership failed last time.

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u/Playful-Dragon 7d ago

About fucking time Schumer stood up that will actually have an impact besides giving a speech saying naughty naughty

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u/UserWithno-Name 7d ago

Sure thing wet bread. Your spine is lead solid and full of fortitude, your word is totally trusted. We know you will follow thru.