Democrats Leave White House With No Deal
time.com
The government is still set to shutdown, after Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump and didn't reach a deal.

With just over 24 hours before the government is set to shutdown, Donald Trump and congressional leaders from both parties emerged from a high-stakes White House meeting on Monday with no agreement, setting the stage for large swaths of the federal government to close after midnight Wednesday.

The impasse came after closed-door talks between the four top congressional leaders and Trump in the Oval Office, where lawmakers appeared to trade blame but make little progress towards a deal. “There are still large differences between us,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the meeting, claiming that Republicans refused to engage on their core demands around health care and restoring previous funding cuts.

“Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input,” he added, taking aim at a House-passed seven-week stopgap funding bill that Senate Democrats rejected last week. “That is never how we’ve done this before.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    13 hours ago

    Did you and 14 other people just not read that?

    Senate Republicans are pushing a narrow budget resolution focused on increasing spending for immigration enforcement, national security and domestic energy production. They want to punt on dealing with Trump’s tax cuts — which expire at year’s end — until later in 2025 under a second reconciliation bill.

    It’s literally about how budget reconciliation can only be used for budget related bills…

    And the fucking annual budget is pretty obviously budget related

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      41·
      9 hours ago

      From the link I provided

      An identical budget resolution must be adopted by both the House and Senate before Congress can take the critical next step: Advancing legislation to reconcile tax-and-spending laws

      My understanding is that the budget resolution needs to pass before there can be a reconciliation bill.

      Either way, if it really just required 50 votes, they would have done it already.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        9 hours ago

        My understanding is that the budget resolution needs to pass before there can be a reconciliation bill.

        That’s about as wrong as you can be…

        Budget reconciliation was invented specifically for the budget… The Byrd rule is what is (hypothetically) used to prevent it being used for non budgetary bills.

        Like, it’s impressive you’re able to be so completely and utterly wrong about this, unfortunately a lot of people also don’t understand. Most likely because you’re all still just listening to CNN and other billionaire owned media conglomerates instead of just looking it up.

        Newsflash:

        Billionaires care more about money than people. They’re fine with a government shutdown and trump as long as profits go up.

        They will lie to you