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.
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?
It has to pass the senate and there you need a 2/3 majority for the filibuster. So Democratic votes do matter there
You don’t for budgets. That’s just for new legislation and it is a 60 vote requirement for cloture.
Even then you only have 53 Rep. senators
They can and will pass it via reconciliation. Budget related measures are able to be passed with a simple majority vote.
Then they should have to.
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.
No Republican will break rank in this environment
One did on this vote
And neither should any Dems. If we present a united front it makes it easier for Republicans to break ranks or sow discord and there is a wide variety of beliefs in the GOP.
It’s easy clickbait to get mad at Democrats for failing to be sufficiently symbolic.
Since being symbolic is what democrats do instead of accomplishing things, yes.
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.
And that’s why I’m not clicking that.
That photo sure doesn’t look like Jared Golden. Any chance to smear AOC tho…
They use AOC to get clicks. Fucking parasites
Maybe it updated or something, but the article for me only shows a photo of Golden followed by one of Mace. There’s a vid at the top with a WH press conference. No photos of AOC at all.
Literally a picture of AoC in the title of this post.
I see this on my lemmy feed:
It’s still showing that for me too.
I see the same picture of Golden from both this thread and the main page of news. Looks like if I access it through .world instead of my home instance AOC shows up.
I wonder where it’s pulling the AOC pic from, because it’s not in that article.
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)
“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
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.
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.
I would say it’d be more effective to be open about not being a constituent specifically but being a Dem voter elsewhere with strong feelings especially if you’re willing to put an effort into primarying them.
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.
