Democrats at odds over Republican bill to fund government operations
www.theguardian.com
Chuck Schumer supports bill, but AOC and Nancy Pelosi warn against Republican legislation as shutdown looms

Summary

Democratic divisions intensified as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Chuck Schumer for supporting a Republican-led funding bill to avoid a government shutdown.

AOC called Schumer’s decision a “betrayal,” urging Senate Democrats to reject the legislation backed by Trump and Elon Musk. Pelosi called the bill a “devastating assault” on working families.

Schumer defended his stance, arguing a shutdown would empower Trump and Musk further.

The controversy sparked suggestions among Democrats that AOC might challenge Schumer in a primary.

  • Sovereign@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Wasn’t this a CR for the dem’s own spending bill…? So its the same bill the dems had right?

    • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      the bill has funds for departments and agencies that dont exist anymore and it would give the administration a giant pile of free money with no strings attached

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      21·
      1 hour ago

      Okay, account with three comments: what do you think the point of saying this was? How did saying this make someone’s day better? Explain it to me.

  • BostonSamurai@lemm.eeEnglish
    127·
    17 hours ago

    Dems need to stop pretending Schumer is the only problem, any other dem in his position would have done the same thing including AOC. The party is rotten to the core it’s just a revolving door of sycophants who server wall st and capital. The party is working as intended. Notice how Dems never have power to make actual change, never have the backbone to oppose republicans, and when they have majorities they never use their power for actual progress or at the very least codifying laws like roe v wade ect. They are there to act like an opposition party not actually be one. The working class is perpetually screwed.

    • Triple Iris@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      412·
      7 hours ago

      I will never again take AOC or any other “squad” member seriously as long as they proudly call themselves Democrats. Go independent like Bernie or start another party. Until then, if they want to keep giving themselves the same label as Schumer or Fetterman, I’m going to lump them in the same batch of assholes and idiots.

        • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          59 minutes ago

          Its funny I have suddenly seen the leave the party thing pop up in multiple places at the exact same time.

          Beginning to think it’s AstroTurf to get the noise people out of the way and into 3rd party oblivion

  • WorkshopBubby@lemmy.caEnglish
    106·
    17 hours ago

    I have been extremely pro-democrat and it has driven me insane how the far left ONLY ever shits on democrats when they are objectively better than republicans on every single issue. Democrats generally vote in the direction of increased taxes on the rich, more access to healthcare, better safety nets, etc. while republicans are just demons who obstruct all progress for the sake of destroying the world. But after Trumps election, watching the cowardice of the dems actually fucking disgusts me. They might as well be republicans with their lack of response. Just a fucking disgrace. Fuck Cuck Schumer. I will stop defending dems. Trumps election is the official end of both parties. Neither of those parties can be allowed to survive if the US manages to survive this.

    • Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social
      11·
      4 hours ago

      Democrats aren’t generally pro taxing the rich or deviating significantly on many issues since Clinton and the 90s. Yes, some of the squad said that they were pro-taxing the rich when they knew that there was no possibility of it being brought to a vote and the Democrats maintained a pretend opposition to the extreme violations of civil rights in the war on terror or ICE deportations. But after Obama, the most extreme and worst excesses of the war on terror were bipartisan, and after Biden all ICE and immigration policies were fully bipartisan (he continued the obviously facetious use of COVID as a terrible, contagious disease to deny asylum seekers, just as Trump did, after saying COVID was over, and continued deportations and putting immigrants in ICE concentration camps, when 4 years prior Democrats could understand that was fascist). That is why the left hates Democrats. Because the two-party system means the Democrats can absorb all opposition to the Republicans, while continuing all of their policies and claiming that wanting any movement to the left/away from fascism is only helping the Republicans. That we should just continue the Republican’s policies, but it is fine because Obama is going to file the paperwork correctly to send Arabs to blacksites or Biden is going to file the paperwork correctly to do ICE deportations at a greater rate than Trump [term 1] or genocide in Gaza. The Democrats are above criticism and should be allowed to do fascist immigration policy or genocide.

  • Debs@lemmy.zip
    434·
    1 day ago

    AOC needs to form a new party or at least go independent with Bernie. I’d really like an alternative to the Democrats because I’ll never be voting for them again.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      228·
      22 hours ago

      No. She’s on a path that will shape the democrats of the future. If she leaves she will become irrelevant, and she knows it.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          the gop’s schism of the maga, it already has occured with them, most of them had to embrace maga or risk getting primaried by trump aligned maga gop. there isnt one for the DNC yet

  • ChristmasIslandZone@lemmy.world
    29·
    1 day ago

    His vile cowardice is something I’m seeing people talk about, but the sheer stupidity of it isn’t touched on.

    CHUCK. HE IS GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU! THE D NEXT TO YOUR NAME MAY AS WELL BE THE STAR OF DAVID ON YOUR CHEST YOU DUMB FUCK! DICTATORS DO NOT LET “OPPOSITION” PARTY MEMBERS LIVE. NO MATTER HOW HELPFUL THEY WERE IN GIVING THEM POWER!

    Like are you fucking stupid?

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      5 hours ago

      There’s plenty of opposition parties in Russia, for example. They’re just all controlled. They use intentional gaffs to throw the election to the “correct” winner. If they start getting too uppity and stop following orders, they get banned from running on some technicality.

      Navalny is what happens when even that doesn’t work, but he was very much the exception.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    40·
    1 day ago

    We will NEVER make progress by compromising with those who will not compromise with us in return.

    • obvs@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Unfortunately, he’s not up for reelection until 2028, at which time he’d be 78 years old, so probably wouldn’t be running anyway.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        i think thats why they go scorched earth, and nothing to lose type of voting, they are trying to get as much money out of it as possible.

      • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        22 hours ago

        Is this your first time? American politicians don’t give up power just because they are old. Feinstein, McConnell, Biden, Thurmond are just a few examples.

      • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
        41·
        22 hours ago

        And by then all of the positive things our government used to do will have been demolished we’ll all be too sick and exhausted to care anymore.

  • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    1 day ago

    Democrat voters are tired of compromising. MAGA thinks they want to burn the US down so they can “own the libs” … well let’s fucking do it. Let’s test their theory in the laboratory of life.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      78·
      2 days ago

      She would have to be in the senate to take over senate leadership in the short term. For his seat itself, there’s been house members - including moderates - starting to support the idea her primarying him when his term is up in 2028

      Several members — including moderates — have begun voicing support for a primary challenge to Schumer, floating Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) as possible candidates, three House Democrats said.

      https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-angry-chuck-schumer-shutdown

    • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 days ago

      Spinelessness is the chief defining quality of the entire Democratic Party. There are very few individual exceptions and those people need to start a new party. The US needs a real progressive party. The establishment Dems have made it very clear they won’t support a true progressive candidate, so what’s the point of bending the knee to these fuckers any longer?

      • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
        18·
        2 days ago

        And honestly now is the time to do it. I have absolutely zero faith we will have honest elections in the next couple decades so splitting the funding between neo lib corpocrats and an actual progressive party for the people will not affect the crooked elections under trump since they won’t win anyway. The time for progress is NOW

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 day ago

        Its hard to decide if they are spineless or complicit. Not that it amounts to much of a difference in the end.