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Wait wait - so the minority leader knew what his party was doing??!?
Normally TNR isn’t as fucky but “either he was scheming the whole time or he’s unable to control his party” is pretty much the most uncharitable spin that can possibly be put on it.
It seems like they got a guaranteed healthcare vote which they didn’t have before (MAGAs were just going to trash it then move on and not speak of it again), they got everyone’s jobs back, they got everyone guaranteed back pay, and they got language to say the MAGAts won’t do that again.
Not to mention we cleaned their fucking clock in the elections, and everyone gets food and gets to travel to see their families during the busiest travel-and-food-related holiday of the year. Plus, they’ll see them back at the OK corral in January to lock in the healthcare or else we go again.
Federal workers get paychecks, which, kind of a big deal normally but more so at holiday season, and they racked up some wins while the republicans got a funded three months.
It doesn’t look like the huge “blink” right-wing-owned corporate news sewers want to paint it as.
OH! AND the House will swear in our deciding Epstein vote, which should make for some interesting holiday reading for all the MAGAts and those of us who may see them on the holidays.
That might be the whole shootin’ match, really. Healthcare subsidy vote notwithstanding.
What the hell are you taking about? They got a promise of a promise from well-established liars (i.e. nothing), and undid a little of the damage incurred to get that worthless promise. There's no interpretation of this where Dems came out ahead. We'd have been better off if they chickened out from the start.
So that’s sooner - right before Christmas, which. Good timing.
So they shut down again in Jan. and no one loses food - SNAP will be funded.
They got the health care vote, which they weren’t going to, they got everyone fed, they got everyone paid, got the layoffs reversed, and they’ll be in good stead to do it again in Jan. Plus: here come the Epstein files.
How much should people who can’t afford food suffer for politics? Federal workers getting past due notices. Travel utterly fucked for the holidays. I can see the benefits to ending it now, funding some stuff for the year and then seeing what the healthcare/Epstein issues do in three months. Maybe nothing but that’s kind of unlikely.