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Democrats in Washington have softened their early opposition to the Republicans’ tiered approach to government spending, signaling a new openness to supporting the House GOP bill and averting a government shutdown at week’s end.

In a Monday letter to House Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his top deputies suggested that Democrats may support the Republicans’ short-term funding bill to keep the government open into early next year — a sharp change of tone that could pave the way for easy passage when the bill hits the chamber floor on Tuesday.

Joined by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Jeffries stopped short of saying party leaders are ready to endorse the GOP proposal, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which was introduced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the weekend.

But he also didn’t rule it out.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah if they want democratic support they should present something that democrats want to support. This whole bullshit of “well if you don’t suck it up now the government shuts down” is just emboldening them every time it works. And remember they’ll tell their constituents that the government only shuts down when democrats are in charge.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Democrats do want to support this bill. It is a clean CR, which is what they've called for repeatedly.

It is unconventional because it has two deadlines instead of one, but that does not significantly conflict with the goals of Democrats.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ok I had been under the impression that it was another of the “we slash the budget in exchange to buy time so we can agree to slash the budget”

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