The following Democrats [and one independent] voted to advance the Republican continuing resolution, which was backed by President Donald Trump:

  • Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
  • Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
  • Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
  • Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii
  • Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
  • Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
  • Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
  • Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
  • Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
  • Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent who frequently caucuses with Democrats

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250314221044/https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-voted-trump-gop-spending-bill-2045209

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    When party stops representing the people it is time for the people to begin representing themselves.

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    And when they sabotage the primaries to keep their opponents from taking the nominations, you liberals will still vote for them because they’re somehow a lesser evil despite fully cooperating with the greater evil.

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    But Fetterman just blasted the Dems for showing up at a fight with a casserole. How did he turn to then serving the casserole?

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        Fetterman was always fake. The people in his hometown know. It’s just that against an even worse fake he can still look okay

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      It’s interesting that no one in the media talks about how Fetterman was one of the most progressive politicians, then he had a stroke and started taking the maga side on a lot of things.

      It tracks with a lot of other anecdotal evidence (e.g. Tila Tequila becoming a nazi after an aneurysm, some lady in a recent Channel 5 video said she became pro-Trump following a head injury in a car accident, a couple of people in my personal life, RFK Jr. obviously). I’m not saying all magas are brain damaged - there’s many different reasons I’m sure. But someone’s gotta at least start asking the question. There is at least this study which ties brain damage to religious fundamentalism, which isn’t exactly politics but it’s pretty darn close.

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        Yes, let’s not forget the country has been taken over by religious zealots who believe in the rapture among other things.

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    Holy shit did murica ever die with a whimper. Maybe not even a whimper, but I don’t what’s less

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    Jeanne Shaheen already announced that she’s not running for reelection…and she STILL voted for the CR. Not to mention that 4 of the other Dems are from the bluest of states.

    What fucking bullshit.

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    I don’t care if it’s cloture or the actual bill itself…

    There should be zero Dems voting “yes” on any-fucking-thing these MAGAt bastards want.

    Blatant and complete obstruction is the only way to play this hand for the foreseeable future.

    Those Dems that do vote yes… 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕

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      Cloture vote required 60 for passage, final passage is only a majority. Cloture is literally the only time the minority party can assert itself, and they just gave it up.

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      The cloture vote required 60 senators. That was the only chance for Democrats to stop this bill. He (and the others) then voted no, so they could say he voted against the bill, but they knew damn well that only in the cloture vote they actually could stop it.

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    I don’t know about various state laws, but if those states happen to have recall abilities, now would be the time to recall those senators.

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      They just gave Trump a blank check with our money. There’s nothing difficult about this choice. They had leverage, they failed to apply it at any point.

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      The least bad choice was, and always will be, to never negotiate with terrorists, and always vote NO to anything the GOP ever proposes, ever and always.

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      If they wanted to shut down the government they could just not present any bill at all.

      Now the changes they did are codified.

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    Most of these Senators have a net worth of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. They love Trump. He is cutting their taxes. (but not yours)

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        This was the only bit of leverage democrats had, the future of US democracy now lies with the judiciary, any future elections will be a farce.

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            It’s as complicated as filing two short forms with the FEC and raising a minimum of $5,000 specifically for a senate campaign.

            So to answer your question, she would file 2 forms with the FEC + have someone give her $5k.

            She can run for Schumer’s seat. She lives in NY, she’s been a citizen for over 9 years, and she’s over 30 years old. Those are the qualifications.

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        unfortunately he cant be removed till the end of his term, but he can be removed as senate minority leader, immediately, and removed from all his committees. Lets see if the dems have the stones to do that. If they dont, they are all complicit.

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      As a very dumb person, is what the Dems that voted for this said wrong? Is there a chance that Asshat Trump and his Billionaire Butt Buddy would go on an unchecked rampage without Congress in session? Or is that just bull crap? I don’t know enough about how everything works when congress shuts down.

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        No, that is the flimsiest of excuses. First of all, how could the presidents rampage more beyond what has already transpired? Secondly, republicans love to throw tantrums and shut down the govt all the time. This wouldn’t be much different except it would show the dems are actually willing to fight with the tools they have. Unfortunately, Schumer’s maneuver shows they are not. It’s beyond pathetic.

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        This is exactly what the right wing has done over a couple decades and it’s worked fine for them. People either lost their seats or got so scared of the constant opposition they fell in line.