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.

  • 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
      11·
      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
        1·
        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
      1·
      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.