Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a press conference Wednesday that “high-volume” airports will begin to see traffic cuts on Friday, with air traffic declining by 10 percent by next week.
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Unlike the targeting of blue-state infrastructure projects, there’s no feasible way for the government to own the libs via the manipulation of airport traffic. Democrats and Republicans both take commercial flights . . …
Democrats are trying to end the shutdown. They offered to give the ACA just a year to be reassessed, but they won’t let the Republicans take health care from people. That’s their line.
They should never have offered a one-year extension.
But more broadly, fascism should not be treated like normal, and certainly should not be funded. But I don’t know what it will take to snap people out of their complacency.
Edited to remove misremembered detail about budget process.
They want to be able to campaign on it for the midterms. That’s why they were willing to do a year.
Schumer needs to stop trying to time everything around elections and just accomplish stuff so they can use it when the campaigns roll around.
Accomplish stuff? Look up how many seats the respective parties have. The democrats aren’t capable of accomplishing anything, but they might be able to prevent the Republicans from taking away a few things.
You gotta get out of the mindset that the Democrats are the government. They are not. They can push a little by shutting down the government, but a majority of Americans did vote for the Republicans to be in power. The Schumer doesn’t have a mandate to do anything, just a very narrow area where he can make a case that while Americans voted Republican they didn’t vote for what little healthcare they have to be taken away.
Also having the voters make the final decision on whether healthcare should be taken away wouldn’t be a bad thing.
It’s sad that Americans on both the left and right seem to hate democracy now.
It would be necessary for me to be in that mindset first.
The budget process is an annual process. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that it’s a 2-year budget.
There are 2-year appropriations, but that’s less common than the default 1-year. There are also other multi year appropriations and no-year appropriations that don’t expire at all (agencies can spend the money until it’s gone, however long it takes). You can read about those here.
Either way, though, Congress needs to pass a budget every year (or at least continuing resolutions).
Whoops! Thanks for the correction. I was thinking of the maximum length of time an appropriation could be used for defense spending, not general budgeting.
Such better political discussions here than on Reddit
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