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bsky.app/profile/wash... This is their 'three main goals' with it. So forgive me for not trusting them about this. They'll water it down further and likely not even try to reduce the amount of funding.

They still can, but TANF and SNAP will remain funded.

Oh so more complicity in the downward spiral of fascism. Cool cool cool. Can't have Schumer's insider trading stock options to crumble. Now thats unacceptable

No, you’re a friendly fire merchant, and the US has a history of obsequious self-interested apologists like you: youtu.be/BReVUJKf9fU?...

Well, good news then. We might get funding for healthcare.

What leverage do they have in two weeks after Trump starts his next crazy idea in the public pressure the White House is facing from the shooting subsides. This was the best possible moment to get concessions. You sacrifice the leverage of the shutdown and public pressure. It’s objectively terrible.

Get serious or log off.

This deal literally keeps funding going to all sorts of agencies. The only agency in danger of losing funds now is DHS. Which means this particular shutdown can drag out for a lot longer than a full or partial gov. shutdown could.

So where are the democratic comms explaining such?

So he gave them everything they wanted in the other five bills?

" Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills." You must be a believer that if you roll over and give your opponent 99 percent of what they want, they will have to give you what you want

The other government funding IS THE LEVERAGE you idiots

No people are not reading this wrong. By only focusing on the DHS funding people are missing the larger point. Dems shouldn’t be voting to fund ANY portion of this lawless rogue government. The entire goddamn thing needs to be shut down. No Epstein Files. No Funding. Period.

Nah, their leverage was the shutdown. They destroyed that. Primary all Democrats who caved

Wrong connections- what you listed already passed. Its HHS and education and hud and DoD that are the big ones tied here

I'm not super clear on what the OBBBA money can be spent on, but the ICE/CBP annual appropriation on top of the OBBBA money is massive. Almost $30 billion annually. OBBBA added something like $30 billion for deportations and $45 billion for detentions over 10 years.

No were reading it in the context of history. They had leverage many times and stopped after they " made their point" so i'd give it less than 1 percent chance of follow through on anything. But, if he somehow does follow through on anything meaningful. I will immediately get on here and appologize

To anyone reading the bullshit from the person that blocked me: NONE OF THAT OTHER FUNDING WILL GO TO THE LIFE SAVING PROGRAMS YOU WANT IT TO. They are pillaging our treasury. Stop fucking pretending that other funding even exists anymore! FFS, have you people been paying any attention whatsoever?

SHUT IT ALL DOWN TILL THIS NIGHTMARE STOPS! Stop trying to work WITH fascism! Why is this so hard to understand

No he didn't!

fuck @schumer.senate.gov

Nonsense. Mark my words: Schumer surrendered again by giving away his leverage ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/jnav...

If that “leverage” doesn’t defund ICE then they’ve failed.

That’s because it’s complicated and 90% of the people whining the most only want a fight. They don’t want to accept a win without one!

And more info from this series of posts from Patty Murray bsky.app/profile/murr...

I heard about this plan a few days ago from here bsky.app/profile/dday...

Do they know they are allowed to say that?

Thank you. I wish folks read more carefully. www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

Didn’t stop you from bitching tho

You’re being far more gracious than this moment calls for.

if i know one thing about Big C it's that he loves the proper application of leverage

We previously had a zero-week clock on DHS funding, and other funding held hostage as well. Now we've given up 5 of the 6 hostages and given the GOP 2 weeks to change a currently very Dem-favorable factual/media context before the next deadline. How does this improve our position?

There seems to be a number of people who are reflexively indicting the Dem leadership for the temporary funding of DHS. Note: I completely understand considering the trail of ineptitude, feet shuffling and navel gazing posturing that Jeffries and Schumer have made their stock and trade.

[Citation needed]

Billionaires wouldn’t feel financial pain in a a millennium. Everyone dependent on a federal government check, from GIs to your grandparents on Social Security, would be in desperate straits.

I won’t judge them till the receipts are in except on the messaging. It is beyond terrible. Dem leadership should have been camped out in Minneapolis a week ago minimum. They are being dragged into action and it shows. Hopefully they get dragged far enough to matter. I hope so

👀👀👀

We'll know if it was a cave or not AFTER we see how they negotiate, but initial demands seem weak

Aka "pretty please follow the law"

Real concessions? An ICE with more money than the US Marine Corps is a monster which should never have been created in the first place. It has to be destroyed and replaced by a much smaller, much saner alternative with rational objectives.

You voted for a reality show star and you got a reality show. Sad thing is the world is watching in awe. We were so much better than this.

"Chuck Schumer is the Minority Leader, and not the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate." "C. Schumer is always Dealing with, (The Devil in the Flesh) and it's next to impossible to keep the Devil, and (Devil-Dogs), from being Dealbreakers." Just Saying!!

Things Just Got Serious! Batman confronted Santa Clara city officials during a meeting on Monday, using his public forum to condemn officials about ICE Gestapo in the streets!

Your words in gods ears, because I don’t trust Democrats in the Senate to do the right thing. Any vote for DHS funding needs to get a no unless it is part of the package that this GESTAPO behavior is stopped immediately und officers are investigate for violation of existing laws.

Everyone wants to be a pundit, no one wants to do the work to become an expert.

they literally have LESS leverage. which causes more pain (aka leverage)? shutting down the whole govt, or shutting down DHS that most ppl don’t know what it does? jesus.

Yep, which is why this is a cave. Democrats gave up all their leverage. In two weeks, it won't matter; they'll try to declare victory by giving a couple of hundred million dollars more for training (beer fund/fishing trips).

Super smart and good!👍🏽

I love that. Thune is McConnell’s poodle.

Any excuse to ignore or dismiss the human suffering amirite?

But - WILL THEY?

Because we are surrounded by reactionary Do Somethings and predatory 'progressive' strategists?

I think we agree, I just wish FEMA wasn’t in the DHS as that feels like the main card the administration will hold to try and push Dems to a deal they don’t otherwise want to take.

Absolutely. ICE and CBP got a ton of money in the OBBBA bill, but that's over 10 years and the annual appropriation is almost as big. A lapse in funding would likely leave most DHS employees unpaid during a shutdown, although I'm not familiar enough to say that for certain.

So, would you agree that if the negotiation results in mandating no masks, visible IDs, and only working within 100 miles of the border then it was worthless and a huge mistake? Because those things are worthless.

Except Lindsay Graham blocked it now.

Maybe if bluesky folks are misunderstanding the dem strategy, the Dems might try better/ consistent messaging? We are stronger when we all move forward together, and that requires understanding each other first.

Ah bullshit, DHS has enough funding for the next decade, Schumer was so shook by the F word escaping his mouth, he went to Trump and folded as always! Dems had leverage but that’s now gone ! QED

I’ll congratulate when they actually get concessions. Still waiting for healthcare subsidies they were going to get!

THE PEOPLE ARR NOT PAYING ATTENTION .. how will we ever survive this disaster if no one is concentrating!!!

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do] - Dems; what a win, giving Trump extra time to regroup.

Learn how to recognize a W and take it. This website would be so much better if you little cosplayers could figure that out.

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You seem pretty confident that’s how it will go, with no reason-to date, to think so. I applaud your optimism.

If you squint *reaaaaaal* hard…

They will not be stopped no matter what. They have all the funding they could desire in the BBB. Carving this out from the CR to keep us open means NOTHING in terms of their function. It does let us kill the new money in 2 weeks. No POLICY can be legally added to budget/CR bills. Dems did well here.

It's urgency that got this done. Carving out DHS from the CR means we keep open, stay on top of everything we need done and in 2 weeks we can fight the DHS part without imperiling everything else people depend on. DHS/ICE have billions already in the BBB that NO Dem voted for. This is smart tactics.

Thank You. I feel better..

Correct.

If Schumer is such a brilliant strategist why isn't he on every media outlet explaining what he did so people understand? Right now many are saying that Dems caved. If this is not true, he needs to educate the people. Why are Dems so bad at this?

"nothing good can happen"

You don't know anything about me, but making a standpoint argument here isn't going to accomplish anything. Neither is pretending this configuration of the state isn't different or more insidious. Neither is implying that nothing should be done about it?

I hope it doesn't, but every day the overton window shifts more to the right. In a couple of months the argument might be over how many citizens get to be deported with Democrats saying they got Trump to only denaturalize those who became citizens in the last 10 years vs his initial demand of all

Yes. They are also rightly blamed for the last government shutdown. The polling numbers for Dems improved from it, until they caved. This hurts their political project, which isn't to get rid of the government, but to consolidate central control of it. What happened with the promised ACA subsidies?

Thank you for explaining this. I've had no way to understand what happened here but this helps a bunch

I'm glad someone else sees it that way too.

No. They lose leverage. And Trump's "two weeks" BS apparently went over Schumer's head. Let me explain, please. musingsofanobodyweb.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/n...

Im for this, but Im not sure I would characterize it as a more leverage situation. Holding up more funding can provide a bigger lever if your serious, but it harder to keep everyone in line. This may be smaller but easier to whip given the focus.

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Why exactly do they need two weeks? How long has Rene Good been dead?

What do you think Dems could have done to prevent this, aside from “win the 2024 election”?

No, we get it. The issue is they're not going to.

"Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies" Fun fact: you can't actually make demands when you do'nt have a majority if you're not willing to force a shutdown, which is the only leverage Dems have.

Admittedly, I’m guilty of misreading it. However, the AP misconstrued it in their article. So I didn’t get it the 1st time.

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Dems care more about hurting Americans than the GOP does. The other 5 bills constitute the bulk of government agencies that prevent Americans from dying; the DHS bill is largely about airports and related shit. Dems care less about people making their flights than people dying, while GOP cares more.

(Shutting down DOD as they murder people in the open sea and play king in foreign countries was a nice side-effect and should’ve been in the table today)