Two House Democrats defect again on key vote for Trump agenda | CNN Politics
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House Democrats are fuming after a pair of centrist members once again defied their party leaders by voting to help advance a key White House priority — the second time in recent weeks.

Such a quick turn around in again showing how Democrats are literally worthless.

  • doc@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    The vote the two Democrats defected on is known as a rule vote. Typically, members of the minority party stick together to oppose these kind of procedural votes, which the majority party needs to bring bills to the floor.

    Democrats are particularly irate given that one of the bills that can now be brought to the floor is a Russian sanctions bill that President Donald Trump himself has championed.

    While some Democrats support the Russia sanctions bill, they said they were not willing to back a GOP rule — and cross party leadership — to get that result.

    “I’m proud to represent one of the largest Ukrainian communities in America — people who have lost fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in the fight to defeat fascism,” Gluesenkamp Perez said on X, adding, “My vote today gets us one step closer to enacting these sanctions into law and I look forward to voting tomorrow to cut off the flow of Russian oil money fueling this war.”

    Unless fatally flawed – highly likely for anything Trump supports – then don’t we want sanctions here? I get wanting to deny a W for the opposition, but having one or two be the bad guy so everyone else can look unified while plenty probably support the thing sounds like politics. Stupid politics, but this is the age in which we live.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      I agree.

      but also its not normal that Trump go to great length in order to sanction Russia. That is so not Trump.

      The White House has made it such a high priority that some in the administration privately reached out to at least one House Democratic centrist, attempting to convince that member to support the GOP

    • bunnybunny@lemmy.zip
      10·
      2 days ago

      Outside all that is Trump and this situation, so just purely politics, I think the statement: I get not wanting a win for the opposition. Is what is wrong with today’s politics. The job of a politician is not scoring more wins compared to the opposition. There is no winning. They’re supposed to serve Americans and its citizens.