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Why Democrats criticize Schumer if his vote is to prevent a shutdown? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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He expressed that a shutdown will favor Trump and Musk, so sounds reasonable?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean there are some obvious drawbacks to a shutdown:

  • Easy for Republicans to point at democrats as the problem
  • People may confuse layoffs or other impacts of cuts to the shut down rather than the Trump admin
  • Less noise about all the terrible things the Trump admin is doing while shutdown takes the forefront

At the end of the day, it's "maybe this will stop the Republicans from dismantling the entire federal government" vs "why stop your enemy from completely shooting themselves in the foot"

Personally I'm not sure which is better, but the wait and see game (that Schumer is playing) relies on things not going completely off the rails (and things seem pretty crazy right now).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks, this makes sense!

While I'd personally contend that a shutdown wouldn't normally be considered "completely going off the rails" I can kinda also see the other point of view - not wanting to add to the current level of craziness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I agree, sadly a government shutdown is actually pretty normal for the US now. What I meant by that line (off the rails) was that Schumer is acting like this is just normal politics, so letting Trump continue to shoot himself in the foot should work out for the Democrats. However, I'm not so sure, this doesn't seem like a normal admin and things have been escalating. Schumersl's strategy won't work if things continue to escalate at their current rate.