Remember when Schumer refused to pick a fight over the budget last March?
Its why were here.
In endorsing a bill that would carry forward a huge spike in funding to ICE, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, acknowledged it excludes most of the ICE reforms Democrats have demanded since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. But a shutdown or a short-term spending patch, she argued, would be worse.
“A continuing resolution will jettison the guardrails we have secured while ceding authority to President Trump, Stephen Miller, and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem,” she said Tuesday morning.
New regulatory guardrails aren’t going to even slow down ICE a little bit, we already have a mountain of examples of them ignoring their current regulations and lying about their conduct constantly. The only thing that will restrain them is denying them the resources they need to carry out their campaign of oppression.
What’s really frustrating tho is I’m sure Rep DeLauro knows all of that already and she’s just trying to push this bullshit through anyway.
ICE is doing a bunch of illegal stuff and Democrats are like “surely if we make a law and ask them to
stopslowdown nicely…”
It’ll be super fun to see them totally drop the health cost issue, opting to lose this DHS battle instead. Fucking worthless.
Dems politicians whom have positions of powers on committees support republican policies. PRIMARY THEM ALL
We have two conservative parties in the US.
Actual centrism doesn’t even get representation, let alone leftism.
Just Nazi Right and Diet Nazi Right.
That sounds exactly like what someone would say who had a vested interest in making people give up on voting.
Name an issue and I’ll show you how the ratcheting effect works. Sorry if reality conflicts with blueMAGA
Ranked choice voting/instant runoff voting.
I’ll admit that it’s not an issue that I’m especially familiar with. What are they doing to implement it on the national level? The best the Democrats can do is promise it for 2028 primaries. In my eyes that’s just more delay tactics
If you are interested in breaking the two party system, it is literally the most important issue out there. IMO there is no way, outside of violent revolution, of breaking up the two party system besides this.
I agree with that much, but I’m not familiar with it as a political issue outside of “Republicans hate it, democrats are tepid”
Many former two party countries have managed to elect third, fourth and fifth+ parties, usually once the voters are sick enough of being forced to vote for the lesser evil every cycle.
I don’t know which examples you are thinking of, but I would bet that is after changes in the law or without an explicit constitutional procedure on voting.
As far as voting for the lesser evil, that is beyond naive. Every election is voting for the leaser evil. If you expect to find a candidate you agree with 100%, you will be waiting til the heat death of the universe.
WTF? They are just collaborating at this point.
