Democrats at odds over Republican bill to fund government operations
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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.

    • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      You’re saying something to the left of what we have, a neoliberal party save a literal handful of spoilers they detest more than their fascist opposition that has proven eager to concede to fascists at every turn, and the Fascists themselves, isn’t palettable to our people politically. I agreed with your point on that, It’s a dark, dark reality.

      If our people aren’t ready for something to the left of those, and there really isn’t anywhere further right to go, we’re plotting military annexations and building extralegal concentration camps, where do you see this having even a slim margin to improve before collapse?

      Because AOC isn’t even that leftwing, she just looks like it from inside the burgeoning fourth Reich.