silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThey Didn’t Have to Do This | By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down10
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minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 days agoOnly enough to get 3 out of 53 Republican Senators to vote against it. That’s a few percent. Not enough to stop it, which is what matters
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoThere are always one less than what would be needed for the bill to fail/pass. They discuss it and say we can have 3 no votes. You, you and you can vote no this time to show that we are not all the same.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoYou know the Rs negotiated who got to vote against, making sure it was no more than three.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoAnd even if it was more than three, they’d just propose the same bill again, until it passes
minus-squarepelespirit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoI mean their constituents. Some republicans don’t have to ever worry about being reelected since their area is so gerrymandered.
Only enough to get 3 out of 53 Republican Senators to vote against it. That’s a few percent. Not enough to stop it, which is what matters
There are always one less than what would be needed for the bill to fail/pass. They discuss it and say we can have 3 no votes. You, you and you can vote no this time to show that we are not all the same.
You know the Rs negotiated who got to vote against, making sure it was no more than three.
And even if it was more than three, they’d just propose the same bill again, until it passes
I mean their constituents. Some republicans don’t have to ever worry about being reelected since their area is so gerrymandered.