Democrats in Washington have softened their early opposition to the Republicans’ tiered approach to government spending, signaling a new openness to supporting the House GOP bill and averting a gov…

Democrats in Washington have softened their early opposition to the Republicans’ tiered approach to government spending, signaling a new openness to supporting the House GOP bill and averting a government shutdown at week’s end.

In a Monday letter to House Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his top deputies suggested that Democrats may support the Republicans’ short-term funding bill to keep the government open into early next year — a sharp change of tone that could pave the way for easy passage when the bill hits the chamber floor on Tuesday.

Joined by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Jeffries stopped short of saying party leaders are ready to endorse the GOP proposal, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which was introduced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the weekend.

But he also didn’t rule it out.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
    318·
    11 months ago

    Different sides of the same coin. Choice is just an illusion to make us think we are in control.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
      41·
      11 months ago

      Sorry do you want one side to be the “shut down the government forever” party? Funding the government isn’t a policy where there should be party differences. Fund the government.

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
        35·
        11 months ago

        I want the left to do what the right is accusing them of doing and doing themselves. Take a hard line on some left policies and blame the right when the right torpedoes them. I want this entire political system to be reworked with the ability to have multiple parties and be resistant to gerrymandering and lobbying.

        • nicetriangle@kbin.social
          31·
          11 months ago

          The multiple parties thing is not legitimately going to happen without a move away from first past the post voting which would require way fucking more political unity than we have right now. If you care about it, work to get it going on the local level to build broader support for it first. Because presently it is a total pipe dream at the federal level.

          • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
            23·
            11 months ago

            Nothing I stated will happen because it is not beneficial to either party. Until listening and following your constituents becomes more beneficial than corporations and foreign governments, it will not happen at the federal level. Local has to be the battleground for change. It has to be from the ground up.