Senate Dems tease hardball defense spending strategy

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5. "BumRushDaShow you posted the article what is your opinion? Should Democrats stay united and vote no to the Thune Bill?"

We don't even know what the "Thune bill" will be.

The "regular process" that the GOP has neglected to do in the past dozen or so years when they had control of either Congress and/or the White House, is to submit the individual (or if anything, "Minibus" and/or "Omnibus" appropriations bills, to cover the ENTIRE government).

Passing individual "standalone appropriations bills", without completing all the others (either standalone or as a combo), will NOT reopen the government.

I know. My agency was one of the rare ones funded back during the Gingrich shutdown of late 1995 - early 1996, where most of the rest of the Departments/Agencies were furloughed. So we came into work every day and in my case, I was greeted to a nearly empty multi-agency building (just a few other agencies were funded like Treasury and Agriculture who worked in our building).

So Democrats need to hold fast if there is an attempt to do something other than a standalone in this specific case. No Minibus or Omnibus packages without the corresponding demands.

The other thing that needs to be reiterated was that one of the first bills passed under Biden in 2021 was what became a law to provide BACK PAY after a lapse. This bullshit from 45 about putting caveats on that needs to be loudly torpedoed and more notably emphasized to the idiotic media that there IS a law, and stop accepting the crap from 45 as true.