General Discussion

you make that statement like it is the only way to avoid people being hurt by this nonsense. That's simply not true.

this is the trolley car problem. thousands of federal workers on one track and millions of people getting ACA subsidies on the other.

Subsidies people need to get treatment for cancer, and any other type of medical care, that they cannot afford now. At least the federal workers, despite being treated like absolute shit, had a light at the end of the tunnel of a paycheck at the end. All the millions of of people who lost the subsides are getting shit sandwich for thanksgiving.

But pick a track because there was no situation here where someone isn't getting run over by the trolley, so there is no moral high ground to be gained by HOPING you protected Federal workers, who drumpf might just leave fired anyway, because who's going to arrest him, Pam Bondi???????

The Democrats that voted yes, and those that voted no only because they knew it would pass, betrayed their party and their voters. We're supposed to be supporting Democrats on this board, and THIS AIN'T IT.

39 out of 47 Senators and 206 out of 213 Dems in the house opposed this (or at least voted against it...). That's 94.2% of our elected members of Congress.

The Democratic Party did NOT want this.