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Trump urged Senate Republicans on Sunday to overrule the chamber’s parliamentarian in order to pass key parts of his sweeping domestic policy bill.

In a Sunday post on Truth Social, the president backed a call from Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and other GOP hard-liners to ignore rulings from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

The parliamentarian is the nonpartisan Senate official responsible for determining whether parts of laws meant to be passed through budget reconciliation comply with the rules for that process.

  • hungprocess
    3·
    17 hours ago

    So your plan is to give up, or try to change the Democrat party to move further left? A new party couldn’t place a member on the Presidential ballot by 2028. They have to hold positions in multiple states of lower positions to do so, and that would split the possible centrists from the leftists and guarantee another Republican win.

    All excellent points against things I didn’t say.

    Hating on individual Democrat members who drive the party Congress/Senate to the right makes sense.

    There are “individual” members driving the party right in much the same way there are “isolated bad apples” causing the police to abuse their powers. I can count on fingers the number of prominent Congressional Democrats pushing left. Even the party leadership is pushing “right, but slower” instead of left at all.

    Hating on the entire party just helps lose support for their party and thereby support the “true” villains as you labeled them.

    If someone sees a post online saying “Democrats should do more to fight against Evil Republicans when they eat orphans for fuel” and their takeaway is “But I don’t know which Democrat specifically should have done more! Guess I’m voting for the orphan-eaters. 🤷”… then I would argue the post was not the problem.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 hours ago

      What do you have against eating orphans? It statistically should drive down homelessness and potentially rent prices. Probably not good for the economy or moral though. Your parents died in a traffic accident, sorry kid… You’re off to the buffet.