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Democratic lawmakers attempt to enter USAID building
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Not actually performative, it's one of the few things they really have power to do without republicans support. They can drag specific types of nominations out to end to taking something like almost a year to get through all of them. And take up limited senate floor time for other bills, legislation, etc in the meantime
There are hundreds of nominations they need to get through
My understanding, is that historically, the minimum debate times thresholds for nominations have been waved away via unanimous consent - especially for minor positions. If one senator objects, then you have to go the whole time
Another thing they can do is force quorum calls to waste time counting people present. Usually quorum is assumed
That sounds good, and isn't there a continuing resolution on the budget exciting soon?
Yep, and they're already making demands, but its in March, and note dem power is limited there. Reconciliation allows budgets to pass without a filibuster, so dems only have power if Republicans infight. There's decent odds of Republicans infighting like the other prior times, so Dems still are planning to use their votes to get some protections against Trump's actions
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5123216-jeffries-government-shutdown-trump-orders/
The Republicans would love a shutdown. Another Constitutional crisis*.
That sounds good, except for the Dems track record of backing down and ending up voting for all the horrific bills anyway.
That would sound good if the Dems had a history of using their legislative powers to delay the Republicans when they try to pass horrific shit.
Almost as if they’re complicit in fascism.
I would guess one with backbone could gum up the works for a short while. The CR, Republicans and establishment Democrats are the most immediate threat, that I can see.
Complicit in fascism? They keep confirming the absolute worst cabinet and court picks, trying nothing but Kente cloths and trying to keep insider trading privileges while Martha Stewart with a paltry billion or so dollars at the time of her conviction, which apparently cut that worth in less than half, today, according to this Yahoo article, which was just the first return on a brief search.
They need to start dragging specific people into the streets for the proletariat to handle.