Trump talks with Democrats fail to yield breakthrough as US shutdown nears
www.theguardian.com
Democrats strike optimistic tone after high-stakes meeting but Republicans accuse rivals of ‘hostage-taking’

As heds go, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a “no-shit lie.”

GOP leaders are on the record saying they want a shutdown. Trump wants to help out the billionaires by creating a shitton of depressed assets for pennies on the dollar.

And if you follow the money, major Democratic donors could also make a decent chunk of change.

I’m sure we’ll get some Sturm and Drang out of it, but that’ll be it. All Dems can do is threaten Trump with the briar patch.

Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for a crunch White House meeting with Donald Trump in an 11th-hour bid to avert a potentially damaging federal government shutdown.

Monday’s gathering is aimed at reaching an agreement over funding the government and largely hinges on Democrat demands for an extension of funding subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, beyond the end of the year, when they are due to expire.

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives, and Chuck Schumer, the party’s leader in the Senate, will meet Trump along with their Republican counterparts, Mike Johnson, the House speaker, and John Thune, the Senate majority leader, for talks that are expected to be tense if not confrontational.

But entirely theatrical!

  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgM
    5·
    4 days ago

    I love that it hinges on the affordable care act, and not trans rights, a bigger poison pill than I’ve ever seen in a fucking funding bill

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
    2·
    3 days ago

    There’s literally no good outcome for Dems. Repubs are fine with it shutting down. Repubs are fine with passing the bill, with no compromises. There’s nothing Dems can do to force an outcome Repubs aren’t fine with, or one that they are.

    Republicans only continue to meet so that they can keep up the farce that they are negotiating. At this point, it’s time for them to devote their energy to going on the record as widely and loudly as possible that Republicans are forcing a shutdown and are unwilling to actually negotiate to avoid it… and let the bill die.

    Repubs are in control, so make them own it and don’t legitimize their bad-faith non-negotiations.