Party sticks to its guns on healthcare and says it’s willing to hold out – much to the delight of its progressive supporters
When he sat down to talk about the US government shutdown with reporters from a closely read political newsletter this week, Chuck Schumer sounded as if he was relishing his standoff with the Republicans.
“Every day gets better for us,” he told Punchbowl News. As the shutdown got under way, Schumer explained, the Republican part believed that Democrats would quickly fold and vote to reopen the government, but instead they had stuck to their guns for a week and a half, demanding an array of concessions on healthcare and other issues.
Outrage followed from Republicans, who printed out the Senate minority leader’s remark on posters and condemned it before press conferences. The shutdown has prompted federal agencies to close or curtail operations nationwide, and forced hundreds of thousands of employees to stay home without immediate pay. Schumer, Republicans argued, was being callous.



and this is how the United States stays beholden to the will of the two parties whose allegiance is to the owner class
football politics at it again
my team sucks but they are our team we just need to be change we want to see they really are for us as much we are for them and we win because we stay blindly loyal to our team because our team is awesome look how well and how much they do
already a clown statement and just adding more makeup
democrats and republicans are definitely two different sides of the same coin with the same goals of benefiting the whole coin and we the people are not part of that coin nor the ones actually voting the politicians since the entire show down to the propaganda media is owned and controlled by the owner class