Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is summoning his caucus for a rare Saturday conference call ahead of a potential reconciliation "vote-a-rama" next week.
Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) budget package includes some $175 billion in border security spending, presenting a potential political minefield for Democratic senators.
But Schumer also wants to look for opportunities to force Republicans to play defense by offering his own amendments to make them squirm.
Senators want to discuss where they should stick together in opposition to the GOP and when they can allow their members to break ranks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) might call Graham's budget package to the floor next week, which would lead to a "vote-a-rama" — in which senators can offer amendments for some 50 hours to score political points.
The budget process will allow Democrats to go on record defending policies that Trump and Republicans plan to cut.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Schumer have been strategizing on how to draw attention to the GOP's proposed tax cuts and their efforts to trim spending from entitlement programs like Medicaid.
Posted by John3262005
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Literally just vote no on everything you useless fucks
You can really start to see how they didn’t put too much thought into who they appointed as Attorney General under Biden.
I don’t understand why they didn’t throw together a performative mass protest over Gaetz when the news broke. Trump trying to jam a literal pedophile into the justice department was such a slam dunk they just needed to use extremely harsh language and do something flashy with it to hold a news cycle.
Can’t they filibuster the shutdown?