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Voting Yes to fund the government and keep SNAP operational doesn't stop money going to poor people. Voting No does that.
It's the current way. The dems choose to keep the govt. closed and SNAP benefits (along with pay to federal workers) cut off. That shows how concerned they really are about the poor, and the federal workers.
Actually, them providing legislation that would avoide the SNAP benefit fiasco proves the opposite and the Republicans refusal to pass it shows what you claim.
The fact remains that the Republican spending bill passed in the House and awaits the cooperation of just five Democrats to keep the government funded and funds flowing to the poor, and to all of the federal workers who are now working without pay. The Democrats need to stop using the poor as leverage.
That was a very good analogy! Then the husband can blame the wife by saying, " If only you would have let me have a 4 wheeler, We wouldn't be without electricity and getting kicked out on the street, and the kids wouldn't be starving. This is all your fault!"
Or the Republicans could just feed the poor with one of the options available to them. Then Dems wouldn't even be ABLE to use the poor as leverage and you'd take away a bargaining chip.
The Republicans are indeed using one of the options available to them. They are all voting in unison to reopen the government.
ok....and the other 3 or 4?
And that's how they fulfilled 52 of the 60 votes required to pass the funding. Since a few democrats have realized what's important, it only takes 5 more. I know that's a lot to ask. But hey! If the public gets fed up with all this, maybe they'll vote for 5 more Republicans to be Senators in the mid-terms, and then the government will actually be functional again and we won't have to put up with this garbage anymore.
yeah.... "maybe"
Nice pair of far-left "news" sources.
They should have initiative to not only provide SNAP funding, but also start paying federal workers. Why pick-and-choose who gets federal funding and who doesn't? The Republican spending bill provides all the funding, with no leverage being sought against any group. How 'bout that?
Hold on. Thanks to this government, DOGE, and it's tax cuts, you guys are ALREADY 2 trillion in debt this year.
Comparing a government and it's spending mechanisms to a "household budget" is just creating a simplistic metaphor that is SOOOOOOOOO far away from what governments are capable of doing that it's laughable to make the comparison.
There it is!
Are you actually trying to tell me that democrats are not in favor of helping the poor because they want federal workers to go without pay, and are willing to let poor people go hungry if it means having some political leverage? 42 million SNAP recipients would be interested to know. So would 750,000 federal workers. They'll be voting in the mid-terms.
