There's no easy answer for Republicans as they move toward a stopgap bill to push a key government funding deadline to early 2025, which could complicate Trump's other plans.

Summary

Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to avoid a government shutdown, likely passing a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government until March 2025.

This would delay a full spending deal but give Republicans more influence under Trump and a GOP-controlled Senate. However, it creates an early funding deadline in Trump’s term, complicating his agenda on tax cuts and immigration.

Democrats retain power to shape legislation due to the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.

Disaster relief funding and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s re-election further complicate negotiations.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 days ago

    The DNC need to start doing something very simple. They need to highlight every single fucking policy that harms the pocket books of the common voter. Then they need to divest from PACs and talk about getting rid of Citizens United. Finally they need to promote a higher minimum wage and start siding with Unions again.

    …and which billionaire owned news outlet will actually cover boring stuff like that instead of whatever new antics the idiot Trump is up to today?

    It would literally require a home-grown network of journalists and news organizations that aren’t owned by oligarchs to make it happen, and even then, would anyone even read or watch it?

    Democrats could run on all of that, but who would even get told?

    Nah, they need to figure out that crazy shit is what grabs news headlines, and they need to start laying down positive-but-crazy shit. Start at “jail all billionaires” and then make a compromise of “only taxing them at 100%.” If they start with something crazy the news will cover it. The news would flip out at something like jail all billionaires, and it would catch tons of media attention, and then they can pare the issue down to something reasonable.

    Shut down congress, start making crazy demands, watch the news cover it all. That’s literally all Trump’s strategy has ever been, so why are we ignoring what works. Media covers him because he says bombastic shit all the time that upsets people. That’s literally the main reason they cover him so much.

    Think about if we had a congress that was shutting down over trans youth healthcare? Forcing a shutdown so we can ensure trans youth can get the help they need. Like literally go after the hotbutton issues that Republicans lose their shit over. Make the media cover it.

    • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Yeah, that’s genius! Let’s make it so the DNC is completely indistinguishable from the GOP and feed into the outrage loop that the media has been leveraging since the 80’s. It’s not like that’s exactly what Harris tried in the campaign she just lost.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
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        3 days ago

        Yeah, you’re right, better to let them curbstomp us while we wring our virtuous hands and think about the high road that’s breaking our teeth.

        • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          That’s not my meaning. My meaning is there is one hundred percent a working message. It’s fuck billionaire money, I’m here to make food and housing affordable again and we’re going to do everything in or power to do it. And then make good on those promises. Biden didn’t do that. Harris never separated from Biden.

          If the Dems start pulling the same shit the GOP are, they’ll just be called copy cats and hounded in the billionaire owned media.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        10 days ago

        How did Harris try that exactly? By calling them weird? Oh she didn’t go as far as standing up for American citizens with crazy out-there ideas? Oh all her ideas were starting from a position of compromise with Republicans to begin with?

        What the fuck are you talking about? The most “outrageous” she got was calling them weird. She wasn’t demanding billionaires in shackles. Give me a break.