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Full list of Democrats who voted to advance Trump-backed GOP funding bill

www.newsweek.com Full list of Democrats who voted to advance Trump-backed GOP funding bill

Nine Democrats and one Independent voted to advance a House GOP stopgap bill to fund the government through September 30.

The following Democrats [and one independent] voted to advance the Republican continuing resolution, which was backed by President Donald Trump:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent who frequently caucuses with Democrats

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16h ago

Full list of Democrats who voted to advance Trump-backed GOP funding bill

www.newsweek.com /full-list-democrats-voted-trump-gop-spending-bill-2045209

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I always forget about Angus King... How does that dude always fly under the radar?
- I'm a Mainer and will be sure to call his office. It's so pathetic the Democrats and King dropped our only leverage for free. When it's the Republicans trump they always pull a stunt regarding funding the government.

Unpopular opinion: Republicans/Maga want to destroy the public sector. Why give the Republicans what they want? The dems stand for the public sector. Fight the Republicans but please use other means than shutting down a sector that is already under attack of Maga.
- The Republicans control both houses. If they can't get a CR passed by themselves, they need to make significant compromises to pass a bipartisan bill, which they haven't done. That's basic politics and it's been the case for hundreds of years.
  Acting like this is the Democrats fault is nonsense. If the government can't pay the bills the people of the country need to finally see the incompetence and disdain for the American people that this administration has.
  As for the public sector workers, if you think this will save them you're completely mistaken. This buys them weeks or a couple of months at most. Maybe a government shut down will remind the people what public servants do for them so they can start opposing this butchery of the government.
- Trump could have just vetoed the spending bill when it came to his desk. He didn't need the Democrats to bow he just wanted to see if they would.
- The dems stand for the public sector.
  Do they?
- If the Republicans wanted that they'd have done it.

Most of these Senators have a net worth of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. They love Trump. He is cutting their taxes. (but not yours)

Schumer, the fuck dude?

Traitors. Get rid of all of them.
- Cuck Schumer primary assfuck him immediately
  
  unfortunately he cant be removed till the end of his term, but he can be removed as senate minority leader, immediately, and removed from all his committees. Lets see if the dems have the stones to do that. If they dont, they are all complicit.
  
  This was the only bit of leverage democrats had, the future of US democracy now lies with the judiciary, any future elections will be a farce.
  
  Many Democrat peers are urging AOC to do just that.
  
  He's not up for re election.
- Primary everyone on this list.
  
  This is exactly what the right wing has done over a couple decades and it's worked fine for them. People either lost their seats or got so scared of the constant opposition they fell in line.
- As a very dumb person, is what the Dems that voted for this said wrong? Is there a chance that Asshat Trump and his Billionaire Butt Buddy would go on an unchecked rampage without Congress in session? Or is that just bull crap? I don't know enough about how everything works when congress shuts down.
  
  No, that is the flimsiest of excuses. First of all, how could the presidents rampage more beyond what has already transpired? Secondly, republicans love to throw tantrums and shut down the govt all the time. This wouldn’t be much different except it would show the dems are actually willing to fight with the tools they have. Unfortunately, Schumer’s maneuver shows they are not. It’s beyond pathetic.
- Let's not water down the term "traitor" during, well... you know.

Hawaii has been sucking recently
- They really Schatz the bed
- They also gave us Tulsi Gabbard.

I don't care if it's cloture or the actual bill itself...
There should be zero Dems voting "yes" on any-fucking-thing these MAGAt bastards want.
Blatant and complete obstruction is the only way to play this hand for the foreseeable future.
Those Dems that do vote yes... 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕 🖕
- Cloture vote required 60 for passage, final passage is only a majority. Cloture is literally the only time the minority party can assert itself, and they just gave it up.
- The cloture vote required 60 senators. That was the only chance for Democrats to stop this bill. He (and the others) then voted no, so they could say he voted against the bill, but they knew damn well that only in the cloture vote they actually could stop it.

Was this the swamp that needed draining?
Jokes aside, I can't see why a swamp would need draining beyond the needs of expanding suburban sprawl. Leave the wonderfully diverse ecosystems be, to flourish and rot in peace.

This is why we need a real party of the left rather than fascists and fascist-lites. Because when push comes to shove the fascist-lites will always side with the fascists and betray the common man
- Agreed, the Dems are a lost cause and this is yet another time they’ve proven it.

traitors!
- Add them to the list.

Jeanne Shaheen already announced that she's not running for reelection...and she STILL voted for the CR. Not to mention that 4 of the other Dems are from the bluest of states.
What fucking bullshit.
- Dick Durbin always seems to find a way to be on the wrong side. I have no idea why he keeps getting reelected.
  
  No one runs against him and even if someone were, he's the incumbent with party backing and all of the name recognition that comes with the decades of doing it.
- Doesn’t want to jeopardize her payday after her term ends.

Cowards. All of them need to go

I don't know about various state laws, but if those states happen to have recall abilities, now would be the time to recall those senators.

That's the last time I vote for Gary Peters. Good riddance. Fucking cowards!

But Fetterman just blasted the Dems for showing up at a fight with a casserole. How did he turn to then serving the casserole?
- It's interesting that no one in the media talks about how Fetterman was one of the most progressive politicians, then he had a stroke and started taking the maga side on a lot of things.
  It tracks with a lot of other anecdotal evidence (e.g. Tila Tequila becoming a nazi after an aneurysm, some lady in a recent Channel 5 video said she became pro-Trump following a head injury in a car accident, a couple of people in my personal life, RFK Jr. obviously). I'm not saying all magas are brain damaged - there's many different reasons I'm sure. But someone's gotta at least start asking the question. There is at least this study which ties brain damage to religious fundamentalism, which isn't exactly politics but it's pretty darn close.
  
  Yes, let's not forget the country has been taken over by religious zealots who believe in the rapture among other things.
- His brain is casserole after the stroke.
  
  Hey that's an insult to casserole
- Fetterman was either bought or blackmailed by AIPAC.
  
  Fetterman was always fake. The people in his hometown know. It's just that against an even worse fake he can still look okay
- Ironically we are the ones who are cooked

I just contacted both my senators to thank them for their no votes and to encourage them both to work on removing Schumer from his minority leader position.

When party stops representing the people it is time for the people to begin representing themselves.
- That time was around 50 years ago.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The Tree of Liberty.
Full Letter.

Holy shit did murica ever die with a whimper. Maybe not even a whimper, but I don't what's less
- A hiccup.

If you believe the Democratic leadership is truly against the Republican agenda, you are being duped. It’s all kayfabe. They’re all rich and corrupt, and they all stand to gain from this.

Senate Minority Leader Cuck Schumer
Senator John Fondlesmen of Pennsylvania
Senator Catherine Cortez Molesto of Nevada
Senator Brian Shithispantz of Hawaii
Senator Dick Turbin of Illinois
Senator Kristen Gillybreath of New York
Senator Gay Penis of Michigan (TBH it's low hanging fruit; If he hasn't heard this one the he must have been grown in a lab as a fully fledged adult homunculus and never was a human child.)
Senator Maggie Hasbeen of New Hampshire
Senator Jeanne Smallpeen of New Hampshire
Senator Anus King of Maine, an independent who frequently caucuses with Democrats
- It took me a minute, but now I see you have their God-given names listed. Well done.

Fuck all these assholes with a cheese grater.

Seems like he did it, because he has a very important book tour https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/14/2310308/-Schumer-s-Book-Tour
And fighting for us would mess up his schedule.
- Do you have any info on these traitors stopping in Illinois? I'd like to pay them a visit.
  
  It is just Schumer and this list looks better (sorry for Reddit link):
  https://old.reddit.com/r/protest/comments/1jb3wd9/protest_schumers_book_tour_dates_in_baltimore_nyc/
  I don't see Illinois though

Fucking scumbags

Collaborators will not be forgiven.

EDIT: I was wrong. The minimum seems to have been 7 or 8.
~~Why are the exactly ten, the minimum number required to advance the vote?~~
- Are you sure? It was 62-48 I think they only needed 60.
  Also freaking Rand Paul voted no.

Well I already knew that Durbin is a shithead, but at least we still have Duckworth here in IL.
- Ole Dickhead Dirtbin. you can't count on him for much, but you can always count on him to sell out his constituency.

And when they sabotage the primaries to keep their opponents from taking the nominations, you liberals will still vote for them because they're somehow a lesser evil despite fully cooperating with the greater evil.

We are at a point where I know you are nasty, are you actively resist if you think there is an in between, you’re a Nazi

A terribly difficult choice. Not black or white at all.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-statement-on-the-continuing-resolution/
- If they wanted to shut down the government they could just not present any bill at all.
  Now the changes they did are codified.
- The least bad choice was, and always will be, to never negotiate with terrorists, and always vote NO to anything the GOP ever proposes, ever and always.
- They just gave Trump a blank check with our money. There's nothing difficult about this choice. They had leverage, they failed to apply it at any point.

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