HUD website right now
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Weird that the people blame the GOP for shutting down the government.
I think that’s just brand image at work.
Every shutdown in the last two decades followed this pattern:
One party wants a ‘clean’ CR to fund the government until normal appropriations bills can be passed
The other party senses their leverage and tries to use it to get a policy change done.
In every other case the GOP has been in the latter role and the Dems in the former. This time though it’s the Dems.
I think blaming the party attaching the new policy condition is reasonable, insofar as you want to pick a party to blame at all.
But people don’t seem to be taking that view this time. But I think that’s just motor memory at work.
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There’s also the weird dynamic that a significant number of Conservatives hear “non-essential government shutdown” and say “Yes, please!”.
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I’m starting to think that eventually caving would be the best route to a political win for the dems.
Most people haven’t paid attention to the cuts in healthcare that the GOP has signed into law. If they are reversed, they’ll never know they were there and Trump supporters who rely on them won’t realize how close they were to taking a big financial hit courtesy of their man in the white house.
The shutdown has put more of a spotlight on the cuts, especially the ACA subsidies, than we had before. Now if they come into effect the democrats can say ‘they did this to you we tried to stop them but they really really really wanted to increase your healthcare costs, so much so that they were willing to shutdown the government in order to get it done’.
Having said all that it’s not clear to me that schumer’s interests align with his party’s. He has a primary to avoid.
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Believe me, I get that the shutdowns have very serious effects and very real effects on good people. It still doesn’t change my opinion that the bloated monstrosity that is the US Bureaucracy needs a chainsaw taken to it.
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@jon-nyc said in HUD website right now:
Compelled political speech. Nice.
Yeah, this smacks me as being illegal. It’s possible for there to be a blanket response, but it shouldn’t be composed as if it’s coming from the individual that was addressed.
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@Axtremus said in HUD website right now:
Just checking ... Still better than the alternative, right?
No need to stress. I’ll tell you when it isn’t.
