House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote, all but ensuring the partial federal shutdown will drag into the week as Democrats and Republicans debate reining in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations.
Johnson signaled he is relying on help from Donald Trump to ensure passage. Trump struck a deal with senators to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a broader package after public outrage over two shooting deaths during protests in Minneapolis against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The measure approved Friday by the Senate would fund DHS temporarily, for two weeks, setting up a deadline for Congress to debate and vote on new restrictions on ICE operations.
Time for Dems to shut down the government and call a general strike. Unify the people. Kind of like what Biden did with the railway strike in 2022, but the opposite.
The Democrats are in the same pockets as the Republicans are. That’s the reason the last shutdown got shit canned. Don’t expect anything extraordinary from the Democrats that are in our house and Senate right now they haven’t got any backbone whatsoever.
You want to change? Get out to the polls during the primaries and use your middle finger to punch their ticket out of office.
Ok, thanks Mike, hell, keep it shut down for the rest of the year
The ‘greatest country on Earth’ and they routinely fail to keep their government running. I have a question: if your government fails to govern, why does it exist? The whole point of these people is to manage things. They are failing to do the only thing they exist to do. There is obviously a fundamental flaw in this system.
I seriously think nobody should have to pay taxes while the government is shut down. People shouldn’t pay for services they aren’t getting
How many other countries have their government “shut down” instead of being dissolved? Genuinely wondering
Effectively zero.
The whole point of these people is to manage things.
Let me fix that for you: In a democracy, the whole point of these people
iswould be to manage things.There is obviously a fundamental flaw in this system.
Ya think?
The republican party exists only to extract money and influence. Actually doing their job is of no interest to any of them, unless that “job” is to tear down or punish their competition in any way possible.
He needs to be slapped. Like bright red cheek slapped. Make it sting for days.
“I don’t want to have to hurt you, but THEY’RE making me! THEY could stop me anytime they wanted to if they’d just agree to let me hurt you whenever I want.”
🔥🧊
Democrats should block any bill that provides funding ICE. ICE and DHS should be disbanded. It was created post 9/11 and people saying creating them was a bad idea we’re 100% right.
The INS existed before ICE.
Project wetback, as one heinous example of INS…
I was a teenager when 9/11 happened and even my stupid ass knew that, along with all the patriot act shit, was going to be a problem.
Normal people when they realize leftists were right:
But fr, they were right and we need to start listening to them. First thing to do is unite!
Alex Jones said that when they were created. You won’t believe it, but he fully supports what they’re doing now. Such a surprise!!
You can literally see the mental illness on his face in every photo or video.
I don’t trust Trump not to pull funds from elsewhere. Shut it off and leave it off until he’s out of power.
That’s not how it would work. If you shut it down… He’s still going to run the military.
I suspect that’s what tariffs and Venezuelan oil are for. Skipping the Congress.
The sooner we shot it down, the more apparent this will be and higher chance it won’t work for him.
Yeah, the money from that is literally being put into foreign bank accounts instead of being held by the US government. Supposedly it’ll be give back when they’re ready, or whatever bullshit they say. If this is true, why those bank accounts? Shouldn’t it be the US government that holds onto it?
Yea but they should vote the other 5 agencies through then just never pass the DHS budget.
blames Democrats for their ICE demands
Ya don’t say
Leave the machine off, it’s broken currently
That’s exactly why the planned opposition party will continue to keep the machine running. At this point, I think anyone that has faith in the Democratic party is literally more delusional than the people that voted for Trump three times.
We are literally watching the equivalent of the liberal parties in Germany voting for the Enabling Act. And, honestly, they already did that when they funded ICE like they did.
Thank you. This is exactly how I feel about the democratic party. I can’t believe people don’t see the parallels between the opposition parties in the 1930’s to 1940’s to our modern day DNC.
It’s certainly made me realize how many people fail at basic pattern recognition.
A lot of people don’t read Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds. Sounds like something you’d enjoy. Though, given your comment you might have already.
I haven’t, thank you for the recommendation. Looked it up and looks like a good read.
"Search “yellow Parenti” on YouTube if you want a taste of the author in lecture form
Leave it fucking shut. Nothing good will come out of this government.
@MicroWave@lemmy.world I just want to say thanks for posting quality links so frequently. You’re one of the few who isn’t posting click bait junk like Raw Story and Daily Beast.
Thanks! Appreciate the recognition.
I hate this dweeby little troll so much.
It’s funny, every time I see him now, it’s him trying to walk away from reporters while saying something about this all being the democrats fault.
Dems need to shut it down and keep this government down. Any dem who aligns themselves with the republicans over this needs to be kicked the fuck out. I know that is a tall order especially for Chuck the cuck. But fucking hell do something for once.
“The president is leading this,” Johnson, R-La., told “Fox News Sunday.”
“It’s his play call to do it this way,” the speaker said, adding that the Republican president has “already conceded that he wants to turn down the volume” on federal immigration operations.
Republican Congress leaders Johnson and Thune look like what’d you get if you impressioned a face-shaped boot tread onto a faceless head. And Johnson’s comments here really shows that boot-licking is all he’s got left.
“Der Führer is leading this,” Göring told Das Reich.
“It’s his play call to do it this way,” the Reichstag president said, adding that the NSDAP chancellor has “already conceded that he wants to turn down the volume” on anti-Jewish operations.
Does any reporter ever ask him if he knows he’s running a separate branch of government?
