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Democratic lawmakers attempt to enter USAID building (www.bbc.com)

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 48 points 16 hours ago

This is a fucking coup, wtf? How is everyone in the senior positions of government only worried about their own ass. It might already be too late. They got into social security and our payment and records. How are the money bag people okay with this? Trump will go where the wind blows, do they think they're safe?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

That info was already compromised multiple times over. Especially when Equifax had that data breach in 2017. This is not to say that your concern is invalid, however.

The issue is that we have unknown and unelected and unvetted people having carte blanche access to identifying information.

Information that they will use to target people.

I am Luigi.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

GOOD! It's about time the Dems did something besides ask me for my fucking money.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 16 hours ago

I just got 404'd

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 15 points 16 hours ago

This is one post in a live thread so maybe something got weird there

The gist of it is that after speaking to around 100 protestors, various dem senators and house reps tried to get into the building. They got inside technically but ended up being blocked at the main entrance

Unsure if they are still there

They spoke about how insane Musk & Trump's plans are and how they plan to fight in courts. I believe they also spoke about plans slow down senate nominations with the procedural tools they can (or that might have been said outside of the protests)

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 15 hours ago

Thanks so much! I saw an article elsewhere about the plans to "slow down." Performative.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 13 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 12 hours ago

That sounds good, and isn't there a continuing resolution on the budget exciting soon?

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

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

In a letter to House Democrats, Jeffries hammered the administration for issuing an order — since rescinded — to freeze federal aid that Congress had previously allocated. Jeffries suggested Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that doesn’t explicitly prevent Trump from freezing, slashing or otherwise altering those programs, including Medicaid, which saw its services disrupted amid the chaos over the freeze.

The Democratic leader said he’s already delivered the message to House GOP leaders that, absent those assurances, Republicans will be on their own to prevent a shutdown.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5123216-jeffries-government-shutdown-trump-orders/

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 12 hours ago

The Republicans would love a shutdown. Another Constitutional crisis*.

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

They need to start dragging specific people into the streets for the proletariat to handle.

[-] tiefling 3 points 15 hours ago

They spoke about how insane Musk & Trump's plans are and how they plan to fight in courts.

Cool, so nothing will be done

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

That's what they did before entering the building and then being blockaded.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago

Fighting in courts and grinding congress to slow way, way down is what they have the power to do federally. They don't have any majorities in either the house or senate

They can try and go in to stop people physically - like what they also just tried doing by entering the building

What specific action from them do you have in mind that they have the power to do?

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