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What Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) warned has become a reality Thursday evening while the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), tried to turn and justify the fact that a group of Democratic senators will stab their own supporters and their country in the back by voting to give Trump and Elon Musk more power because they do not want to be blamed for a perspective government.
We will probably not know the names of all the traitors before the vote because, so far, only Schumer has intensified and has tried to explain why they give Trump’s means. Schumer was trying to justify the unjustifiable.
Here are Schumer’s remarks:
Unless the congress ages, the federal government will close tomorrow at midnight.
I have said on several occasions, there are no winners in a government closure.
But there are certainly victims: the most vulnerable Americans, who rely on federal programs to feed their families, to access medical care and remain financially afloat.
Communities that depend on government services to function will suffer and suffer greatly.
This week, the Democrats offered a reasonable outcome: finance the government for another month to give the collectors more time to do their job.
The Republicans rejected this proposal. Why did they reject it?
Because Donald Trump does not want the appropriars to do their job.
He wants total control over public spending.
He is not the first president to want this, but he is the first president to curl his party.
Thus, this republican rejection brings us to a decision.
And it is not really a decision, it is a choice of Hobson: either to continue the bill before us, or to risk that Donald Trump throws America into chaos of a closure.
In my opinion, this is not at all the choice.
Although the CR bill is very bad, the potential of a closure has consequences for America which are much worse.
Of course, the republican bill is a terrible option.
It is not a clean cr.
It is deeply partisan.
He does not meet too much to the needs of this country.
But I believe that allowing Donald Trump to take even more power via a government closure is a worse option.
And before explaining why, let me be clear about something.
No one on my side of the aisle wants a government closure.
Members who support this CR do not want government closure.
The members who oppose this CR do not want to close the government.
The members who oppose this CR wish that the Republicans will take their responsibilities more seriously and negotiate expenditure invoices which will meet the many needs of the American people.
I respect them for that.
Unfortunately, this republican party is Trump’s party.
As bad as the passage of CR, as I said, allow Donald Trump to take even more power via a government closure is a worse option.
First, a closure would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk Carte Blanche to destroy vital government services at a much faster rate than they can currently.
Under closing, the Trump administration would fully have the power to consider agencies, programs and “non -essential” entire staff, staff on leave without any promise that they would ever be rehired.
The decision on what is essential would only be left to the executive, no one left in the agencies to verify them.
In short, a closure would give Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Doge, and Russell spoke of the keys to the city, the state and the country.
A closure would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country.
And do not believe me: Musk said aloud that he wanted a closure, and public reports have shown that he was already planning to use the closure to accelerate its destruction of key government programs and services.
Musk told journalists: “If work is not essential, or if they don’t do it well, they should obviously not be on public pay.”
Many federal employees and government experts are rightly worried that temporary closure can cause permanent cuts.
Second, if we enter a closure, the Republicans of the Congress armled their majority in picking cherries than the parties of the government to reopen.
In a prolonged closure, the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate would continue a strategy to bring the bills in the field to reopen only their favorite departments and agencies, while leaving other vital services that they do not like to languish.
Third, a closure is not a political game – the closures mean real pain for American families.
For example, veterans services. I believe that a closure could cause regional AV offices to reduce staff, delay the transformation of benefits and reduce mental health services – the abandonment of veterans who won and depended on these resources.
Social security and services for the elderly: I believe that a closure could Greenlight Trump to reduce even more administrative staff in Social Security offices – delaying new applications, advantages of advantages and forcing the elderly to wait even longer for the advantages they have won.
Extremely disturbing, I believe, is that a closure could block the affairs of the federal courts – one of the best redouments against Trump’s anarchy. He could compete in critical staff, refuse victims and defendants in the same way as their day in court, causing calls and obstructing the justice system for months or even years.
This administration has shown an unfathomable desire to sacrifice American families and their well-being to advance their own political program.
A stop positions them to do so on overdrive.
Finally, there is another reason why I oppose a closure: President Trump and the leaders of the Republicans would like nothing more than taking us into the mud of a prolonged government closure.
For Donald Trump, a closure would be a gift.
It would be the best distraction he could ask for his horrible program.
Donald Trump currently has chaos in government.
He has chaos on the stock market.
It holds damage to our economy, from one end of the country to the other.
The stock market is blocking, consumer confidence is falling.
Donald Trump hopes for a judgment because he distracts his real program: offering massive tax reductions to the rich paid on the back of American families.
He wants to prohibit social security, hollow of Medicaid, slam taxes on consumer goods thanks to his reckless commercial wars.
In a closure, we would be busy fighting with the Republicans on the agencies to reopen and which to remain closed, instead of debating damages on the agenda of Donald Trump, the American people.
I think it’s my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize damage to the American people.
Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not close it.
There is no one in the world – no one – who wants to close the government more than Donald Trump and more than Elon Musk.
We must not give them.
And let’s not be mistaken, the Democrats will continue to fight what Donald Trump does.
All that Trump, Musk and the Republicans have so far had a very clear goal, again: to reduce taxes for billionaires, eviscerate social security, health insurance and medicaid.
This is the fight that counts the most and the fight on which we must concentrate.
All the chaos we have seen, all anarchy, all fatty and corrupt behaviors, it is a question of rigging the system in favor of ultra-rich to the detriment of the works who work.
This is the fight that the American people need to see.
This is the fight that Democrats will win.
A closure will be an expensive distraction of this very important fight.
The Turncoat group of Democrats who will vote to give Trump what he wants, as if these are two different fights.
They are not.
A closure is part of the same fight.
How do the Democrats expect the voters to be enthusiastic and appear for them on the day of the ballot when they sell so loose America because they are afraid of blame?
A closure does not distract the fight. It would concentrate the fight on what Trump and his party do.
A closure surrounded people across the country because they would see the Democrats of the Senate fighting for them.
Of course, corporate media would blame the Democrats, but they would do it anyway.
All the Democrats and members of the Senate Caucus are not low cowards. Senators love Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Tammy Baldwin and Chris Van Hollen have already published statements explaining why they vote no.
The Democrats of the Chamber risked their seats by voting almost unanimously against this horrible CR. The Democrats of the Chamber fought.
A group of Senate democrats chooses to cut and run.
It is not enough to say that some members of the same party who warned the American people before the elections that Trump was a threat to democracy does not deserve your support if they vote for this CR.
Any democrat who votes to empower Trump, because that is what the voting for this CR is, does not deserve a nickel of donors’ money and should face a primary.
I will never tell anyone to make their money, but if one of these democrats appears in my texts, emails or voice messages that ask me for money, they will be told to get lost.
We see through the apology, and what is revealed is a group of arrogant and weak individuals who place themselves before the nation.
It is a slap opposite which will not be forgotten and another step towards the Democrats losing supporters and demoralizing their party.
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