This video from the USA says about itself:
Are Democrats SERIOUSLY Trusting Mitch McConnell?
22 January 2018
Really, Democrats? Really? Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, explain. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
As the scramble to end the government shutdown dragged into the work week Monday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-KY) urged senators in both parties to vote to fund the government until Feb. 8, and accept a loose promise from him to bring a bill to the floor that would address the status of the 700,000 young immigrants whose protections President Trump revoked last year, even if they don’t have an agreement with the White House or the House.’
Read more here.
Many dreamers say they feel betrayed after Democrats “said they wouldn’t vote for government funding without protections for undocumented young people, then did it anyway.”
Liberals Fume At ‘Worst Negotiator’ Chuck Schumer After Deal To End Shutdown: here.
By Patrick Martin in the USA:
Federal shutdown ends as Democrats cave in to Trump
23 January 2018
The US Senate and House of Representatives voted Monday to approve a short-term budget resolution, putting an end to the partial shutdown of the federal government that began midnight Friday night. The deal leaves 800,000 DACA recipients without protection in what amounts to a total capitulation by Democrats to Trump and the Republicans.
The Senate passed the three-week “continuing resolution”, authorizing federal government spending through February 8, by a vote of 81-18, with large majorities of both big-business parties supporting the bill: 48-2 for Republicans, 33-16 for Democrats.
The House of Representatives passed the bill an hour later, by a margin of 266-150, with 45 Democrats joining a near-unanimous Republican caucus to send the legislation to the White House for Trump’s signature.
The bill incorporates only one long-term policy action, reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers nine million children in low-income families, for another six years. Both parties allowed CHIP authorization to expire when the fiscal year began October 1, and half a dozen states have already begun notifying families of significant cutbacks in the program, set to begin by the end of this month.
The CHIP extension was added to the continuing resolution that passed the House last week and was blocked in the Senate by a Democratic filibuster, carried out supposedly to demand the legalization of so-called “Dreamers”. undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children and protected against deportation under the DACA program.
President Trump rescinded the executive order that was the basis of DACA, with the action to take effect March 5, when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement could begin rounding up DACA recipients using the personal information they had to supply to the government in order to be covered by the program.
In the annals of cowardly capitulations, there are few spectacles that can match Monday’s collapse by the Democratic Party, which abandoned its blockade against the budget resolution less than 72 hours after it began. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced the decision in a brief, nearly blubbering speech on the Senate floor, which combined phony invective directed against Trump with a complete surrender to the bigot-in-chief in the White House.
In the end, the filibuster obtained only one “concession” from the Republicans: McConnell pledged publicly to allow a debate and vote on stand-alone legislation to deal with the DACA issue after February 8 if there is not a DACA provision in the final budget resolution.
Even if he were to keep his promise, House Speaker Paul Ryan has already declared that no DACA legislation will be brought up before the House of Representatives unless it has White House support—meaning that the bill would have to incorporate the full panoply of Trump’s anti-immigrant program, including the wall along the US-Mexico border, a massive buildup of the border and immigration police, and strict new curbs on legal immigration.
DACA recipients are living in a state of anger and anxiety. “Stupid Republicans. I hate Democrats for caving in, too”, wrote one DACA recipient on social media. “Don’t trust Chuck”, wrote another, referring to Senator Schumer. “I woke up at 3:30 last night and wasn’t able to go back to sleep with all this mess. I’ve lost a few pounds just worrying”, wrote one young woman.
The surrender was not Schumer’s individual decision, but the action of the entire Democratic caucus, which had no stomach for any serious fight. At a lengthy closed-door meeting of the Senate Democrats on Monday morning, it was clear that many more than the 12 required to break a filibuster were going to vote to support the budget resolution.
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In the wake of the debacle, two of the most right-wing Senate Democrats, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama, went to the White House for talks with Trump on the immigration issue.
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With the installation of Trump in the White House, after a campaign in which he made racist bigotry against immigrants a central focus, the Democrats have only sabotaged efforts to fight back. In the course of the past year, they never made a significant issue of DACA, compared to their single-minded focus on the anti-Russian campaign.
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These priorities are not the result merely of the choices made by Schumer, his deputy Richard Durbin, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The focus of the Democrats on the anti-Russia campaign, and their indifference to the impending disaster facing DACA recipients, points to the basic political character of the Democratic Party, a capitalist party whose policies are set by Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatus.
The media apologists for the Democratic Party on such cable networks as CNN and MSNBC were largely at a loss Monday afternoon, unable to conceal the scale of the capitulation and the demoralizing impact this was likely to have on the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party in 2018.
The New York Times was the first Democratic Party house organ to attempt transforming this debacle into a mini-triumph, in an editorial published Monday evening, beginning with the words, “Thank goodness that’s over”, followed by a series of complaints about Trump’s bad faith and inconsistency in negotiations.
Claiming there were no winners to the shutdown—Trump and the Republicans, of course, would beg to differ—the Times wrote, “Nonetheless, the spotlight is now where it should be: on the failure of President Trump and Republicans in Congress to take care of the Dreamers, despite their repeated claims that they want to.”
No winners? Donald Trump, and the Trump-supporting United States neonazi site The Daily Stormer, claim they won as the Dreamers lost.
This 22 January 2018 video from the USA is called The Government Shutdown Ends With a ‘Promise’ For DACA Vote From the GOP – The News With Dan Rather.
A series of arrests and deportations of immigrants in the state of Michigan over the last week points to a broader escalation of the Trump administration’s reactionary crackdown on immigrants and undocumented workers across the United States: here.
Republicans and Democrats co-sponsor bill to dismantle Dodd-Frank bank regulations: here.
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Yesterday, Democrats in Congress caved to anti-immigrant Republicans in the Senate, and now the future of 800,000 young immigrants is at more risk than ever. We need to act fast.
After forcing a government shutdown to demand that Dreamers–young immigrants who came to the United States as children–be protected from deportation, some Senate Democrats balked and voted to reopen the government anyway.1
Now, we have three weeks to get Congress to pass a bill to protect Dreamers. If the deadline passes, every one of 800,000 Dreamers will lose legal status and be in danger of deportation.
Eighty-seven percent of Americans support a permanent legal status for Dreamers.2 We need Democrats to show some backbone and stand up for Dreamers instead of caving again, and we need Republicans to once more feel pressure to negotiate. Will you stand with Dreamers and demand Congress pass a clean DREAM Act immediately?
Tell Congress: Pass a clean DREAM Act immediately.
Sign the petition
https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/dream_act_2018/?t=2&akid=17771%2E1176117%2E1yFZ36
For months, Republicans in Congress have refused to protect Dreamers from deportation, and have also refused to fund low-income children’s health insurance and disaster aid.3 In an effort to protect Dreamers, Democrats and a few Republicans forced the Senate to finally take action by threatening to shut down the government.
Then some Democrats, afraid of anti-immigrant voters, decided to throw Dreamers under the bus. They gave into anti-immigrant pressure, shutting down the government for nothing. Come March, all 800,000 Dreamers will lose legal status.
But while Congress is still reeling about this failed attempt to protect Dreamers, they need to hear from constituents who want to protect immigrants from Trump’s deportation machine.
Will you sign the petition to help protect Dreamers and other immigrants?
Thanks for speaking out!
–Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Emma, Pilar, Natalie, Melody, Pam, Lindsay, and Ryan, the UltraViolet Action team
Sources:
1. Government Shutdown Goes Into Monday as Senate Inches Toward Deal, New York Times, January 21, 2018
2. Poll: Most Americans support DACA, The Hill, January 14, 2018
3. There are just days of CHIP funding left, Vox, January 18, 2018
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From Pramila Jayapal
Last night I voted NO against another short-term continuing resolution — the fifth in just four months. It’s appalling and heartbreaking that a long-term solution for critical issues like 1.5 million young Dreamers and funding for our community health centers keeps getting pushed down the road over and over again.
Our government has a job to do and promises to keep. Yet, even though Republicans control the House, Senate and White House, they still won’t face their responsibility to pass a real budget that benefits working families. Instead, they pander to their wealthy donors and white supremacist base while turning everything else to turmoil. One year into Trump’s presidency we’ve witnessed alarming anti-immigration policies and rhetoric, a tax plan that hurts working families, and senseless attacks on marginalized communities. Their incompetence is not just immoral — it’s dangerous.
We have had enough short-term continuing resolutions and not enough real solutions.
Our current administration and Congress refuse to represent all of us, so it’s time to take back our democracy and make it work the way it’s supposed to. We will show the GOP the value of our basic human dignity and that the beauty of our diverse country is our strength. Our democracy is only a democracy if we, the people, make our voices heard and demand the representation we deserve.
Tell Republicans loud and clear that you won’t back down and are ready to get rid of their incompetence by contributing $3 to take back the House with progressive candidates in 2018.
We need real reform to help our communities and our economy thrive. That reform won’t come unless we’re on the front lines working to elect candidates who represent us all, including more people of color, women, and LGBTQ individuals.
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We need you now more than ever. Thank you for taking action.
In solidarity
Pramila Jayapal
PAID FOR BY PRAMILA FOR CONGRESS
PO Box 21912, Seattle, WA 98111
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