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JUST NOW: Unopposed Speaker candidate @RepJeffries lists "Dramatic change" priorities for Democrats in the next congress...
-"End the war of choice in Iran"
-"Stop the Trump tariffs"
-"Reverse the Medicaid cuts"
-"Reverse the SNAP cuts"
-"Extend the ACA tax credits"
-"Take substantial steps towards bringing about our commitment to Universal Health Care"
-"Get big money out of politics and end Citizens United"
-"Prohibit members of congress from trading stocks"
House Democrats aren't waiting until January to deliver for our men and women who served America in uniform.
Combat-injured veterans earned their retirement pay and disability benefits.
They deserve both.
That’s why House Democrats forced a successful vote on the Major Richard Star Act.
Today, it passed.
Massie: The Democrats could call this up again in this Congress, and I do think one of the Democrats has reintroduced my articles of impeachment, and I told her I would vote for those if they bring them to the floor, but I'm not going to bring it up to the floor again.
And what's also true is if every Democrat had showed up and every Republican had showed up, I still would have lost.
So, while it may be true that it would have passed if they had all been here, I didn't really want to win it on that way because then they could say, "Well, this doesn't really count because the Republicans didn't show up either."
@KooDaLord@imreallyimprtnt Nah…it’s bad optics for the Dems after their massive victory in the midterms. It might be forgotten about in a week but they dropped the ball on this PR-wise.
@1davidj@imreallyimprtnt Frankly this is cope because the optics are bad for the Dems here. CNN was running this story last night. Other Dem reps are coming out and questioning why people failed to show up to vote.
@FluidPsyche@imreallyimprtnt Yeah…I wrongly assumed every single republican wasn’t dumb enough to protect Hegseth and Trump even after many of their constituents voted democrat for the first time in their lives because of how horribly the war in Iran has gone
@FluidPsyche@imreallyimprtnt Massie’s motion to impeach Hegseth had been in the new cycle. I stay up with politics and even I assumed he was about to be impeached.
@FluidPsyche@imreallyimprtnt Yeah I know. My point is that the average person that voted in the midterms doesn’t know this. All they know is Anderson Cooper questioning why 11 democrats couldn’t e bothered to show up to vote to impeach Hegseth.