I am tired
of the half truths and outright lies that the Republicans are spinning to try
and blame the Democratic House for this ridiculous government shutdown.
Facts:
!. The Republican Senate passed a continuation
bill to keep the government open until February.
2. Trump bragged on TV that he was going to shut
down the government if he didn’t get funding for his wall, and said he would be
proud to own the shutdown.
3. The first order of business in the Democratic
House was to take the Republican continuation bill, unchanged, pass it in the House
and send it back to the Senate.
4. Mitch McConnell refuses to bring this bill,
that had already once passed in the Senate, up for a vote.
5. It would take two Republican Senators to
vote with the Democrats to pass the bill and open the government.
6. It would take twelve Republican Senators to
cross over and vote with the Democrats to override Trumps Veto.
This Trump
tantrum government shutdown is wholly owned by Trump and now the Republican
Senate. The Senate could open the
government tomorrow if they would bring the House (Republican) bill to a vote
and enough Republicans were mature enough to vote with the Democratic minority.
Why aren't Legislators salaries being cut during a Government Shutdown?
Call or e'mail your Senator and House member and demand they pass a bill to deny salaries to all Congress Persons, the Presidential, President Cabinet members and Presidential staff during a government shutdown.
I don't do social media; but if you do please put this request to the people that follow you.
the Ol'Buzzard
I totally agree! How can 53 sensible senators believe that the best thing to spend 5 billion dollars on (and that's not even a decent down payment) is a 1,000 mile long friggin wall?
ReplyDeleteThis is not about the wall, wall's work, they are all over the world this is politics.
ReplyDeleteTwo different sides (professional politicians & the non pro) trying to make the other look bad. Trying to make the people uncomfortable so they will blame someone...
$5b is a drop in the bucket... "they" (the professionals) gave the bankers & insurance industry $700B to cover their gambling debts just 10 years ago... we are currently spending $45B a year on the never ending war in Afghanistan.
I'm but one little voice drowned out by a sea of corporate owned media supporting the professional politicians.
Trump and McConnell's foolishness knows no bounds.
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