Only one House Democrat votes for Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown
Only one House Democrat votes for Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown
The bill now goes to the Senate, where many Democrats oppose it but are not ready to vote against it yet
Only one House Democrat voted in the US House of Representatives voted for a spending bill that Republicans passed to keep the US government open.
The House passed a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or “CR,” to keep the government open until September on Tuesday. Only one Republican, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against the legislation.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to join Republicans in the legislation.
Why the hell did they put a picture of AOC on it? Makes it look like she was the one.
For the clicks! There's another comment that said they had a different pic show up
I had to open the link to check it, because a lot of times this happens automatically when the link just pulls the first picture from the article to use as the thumbnail. But nope, there wasn't a single picture of AOC in the article, and the hyperlink of her name was the fifth link down in the article. This was intentional.
That photo sure doesn’t look like Jared Golden. Any chance to smear AOC tho…
They use AOC to get clicks. Fucking parasites
Makes me wish I wasn't so confused by Rust programming so I could make a PR where we can choose a thumbnail instead of going with an auto-generated one with how often the auto-generated ones are weird, wrong, unrelated, or flat out broken.
speculating here, but the "auto-generated ones" are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It's more likely that these websites' operators don't have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they're the "proper" way to do embeds, lemmy can't just ignore them, either.
Jared Golden of Maine
Shall be henceforth remembered as a traitor.
He betrayed his colleagues. He betrayed the opposition. He betrayed the country by extending the fascist shit show a little longer.
Any Dems voting with Republicans are fucked next election. Vote all centrist out. Push hard left.
This might be our only opportunity. If we fail here, future efforts might be complicated by, oh, the total collapse of American democracy (or what's left of it)
the dems wont do a damn thing about a traitor in their midst. They never do.
at this point it will be easy to identify the dinos.
So, how quickly can we find a primary challenger? He's up for re-election in 2026 and that means we have almost two years to campaign.
Anyone in Jared Golden's district should express their extreme disapproval with his vote.
Anyone can register a Google voice number with a Maine area code.
Anyone can register a Google voice number with a Maine area code.
They can detect that though, in the same way that Discord does.
Having said that, still might be worth giving the feedback, even if it doesn't affect him directly. A "read the room" type of thing.
The irony is, he only keeps getting elected as a centrist. He’s like our Manchin, but D2 is going to be the worst effected by Trumptariffs.
Jared golden won a red district as a Democrat, and usually votes what he thinks is best for his constituents. Not saying I agree with his vote, but I respect him for it
“This is a deeply partisan spending bill that not only contains completely unnegotiated and unexamined cuts – beyond that, it actually takes away all accountability from the president and strips Congress of their ability to actually review the tariffs that are being put forth by the executive,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told The Indpendent before the vote.
I'm assuming this is why she's in the photo, lazy fucking journalism. Let the tools decide as if they aren't biased
It's fine to use them but for fuck sakes someone should approve the final product before publishing it
But House Democrats opposed the legislation because of the fact the bill includes major cuts to programs from everything from education, health care and energy.
“This is a deeply partisan spending bill that not only contains completely unnegotiated and unexamined cuts – beyond that, it actually takes away all accountability from the president and strips Congress of their ability to actually review the tariffs that are being put forth by the executive,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told The Indpendent before the vote.
In case anyone is wondering why the dems voted no to this.
Since repubs have majority in both chambers, why do D votes matter at all? The only way D's can disrupt the bill is a filibuster in the senate, right? What am I missing?
Do they matter? They could if a few Repiblicans broke rank and they should oppse this spending billl becsuse it is trash. Plus if the Dems in both houses are united against the bill it shows their supporters that they aren't caving in like they frequently do.
Fuck Jared, he had no reason to vote for the bill.
democrats will cave. It's all they do.
Vote was 217-213, 50.47%.
Without the Democrat? 216-214? 50.23%.
It was going to pass anyway. If voting yes helps one Democrat keep their seat? Sure, why not?
If voting yes helps one Democrat keep their seat? Sure, why not?
This mentality from the DNC is precisely why Republicans currently control every branch of government. Nobody likes diet Republicanism and nobody will remember this specific vote in 2026.
It would suck to watch Coast Guard service members, TSA agents, National Parks rangers, Air Traffic Controllers, and others go without paychecks again like they did in 2018-19. I recognize back-pay was distributed after the shutdown ended, but it really sucked to watch members of the US military wonder when they'd see their paychecks again while resorting to on-base community food banks in the interim.
