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Why Democrats criticize Schumer if his vote is to prevent a shutdown? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by 65gmexl3@lemmy.world to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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He expressed that a shutdown will favor Trump and Musk, so sounds reasonable?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I disagree with that take.

Trump's gutting of federal agencies has only highlighted all the things we take for granted and/or didn't even know were benefiting us. With a shutdown, that all comes to a stop, and the workers who are deemed "essential" still have to work but don't get paid. Remember the last shutdowns?

TSA workers still have to work unpaid. ICE isn't going anywhere. Think they're thugs now? Wait till they're not getting a paycheck and taking their (extra) anger out on their victims.

And Musk/DOGE? With all but essential workers furloughed, I have no doubt the dismantling and fuckery will continue except now they're basically running around with even less supervision than they have now.

Like it or not, Schumer made a hard, but likely correct, call to see the bigger picture.

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The budget is the death nail to those agencies so they are going away shut down or not.

But if we shutdown EVERYTHING we might be able to show how stupid that is and make it temporary or get some concessions.