I wish a motherfucker would.

>>1451849
They don't even have to use the nuclear option
They could just sit down and negotiate to get the seven votes from Democrats they need
You know, the entire fucking purpose of the legislative branch

>>1451875
They have been negotiating the budget since at least Feb. It's time for Dems to stop holding the government hostage

>>1451876
Yes, Republicans have known for almost a year now that eventually they wouldn't be able to just use reconciliation to ram through their agenda and would eventually have to either use the nuclear option or negotiate with Democrats
The fact that they would rather use American lives and livelihoods as hostages than choose either of those options truly is reprehensible

>>1451875
Negotiate healthcare for illegals and trans education in Africa?

>>1451879
KYS

>>1451884
Personally I would open with things like the healthcare subsides that seem to be the sticking point and not goofy bullshit that isn't being discussed anywhere outside of the dumbest parts of the right wing media bubble, but to each his own

>>1451893
Thank you for conceding

>>1451849
We don't negotiate with terrorists. We'd rather starve.

>>1451849
>/opinion/commentary/
opinion pieces aren't allowed here

Trumps a fucking moron and even he understands that Democrats control the senate.
So why aren't Republicunts negotiating? Probably because they're even dumber and shit at their jobs

Trump could've prevented the shutdown altogether in 2017 by following up on one of his four big campaign promises:

"I will scrap Obamacare and replace it with a better system that covers more Americans and costs less"

But he didn't. So here we are.

>>1452030
The /news/ janny is a special kind of useless

>>1452034
This faggot got fired by DOGE.

>>1452050
Amazing how 8 years later, still doesn't even have a basic plan. Just concepts... and the concepts are "like obamacare but better" so those are fucking half baked concepts too.

>>1452050
>he didnt
Actually, it was John McCain who prevent Obamacare being repealed and replaced.

>>1452359
What was the replacement?

Simple majority vote required
GOP has a majority
>must be Democrats fault

>>1452360
feeding sick people to the volcano

>>1452360
>What was the replacement?
American Health Care Act (AHCA)

>>1452364
Oh yeah one of the least popular bills introduced in the last decade that would've kicked 23 million off their health insurance. Yeah that wasn't just McCain voting against that trainwreck.

>>1452365
>didnt even know there was a replacement
>actually I know all about the replacement!

>>1452365
>that would've kicked 23 million off their health insurance
It would have saved us almost a trillion dollars and it would have slashed premiums for most Americans under 50.

Of those 23 million you reference, 14 million get free health insurance paid for by YOU. The remaining 9 million get health insurance via the ACA Marketplace where their premiums are subsidized by YOU.

>>1452366
I meant a serious replacement; AHCA was literally just a kneecapped ACA. There's a reason neither Trump nor Republicans tried to ever submit it again after it failed, and Trump only said he had "concepts of a plan" last year.

>>1452368
You had absolutely no idea that the AHCA existed. Just be real.

>>1452367
>It would have saved us almost a trillion dollars
lol no it wouldn't have. Estimates were it only saved 100 billion and left 23 million americans without health insurance.
>https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/costestimate/hr1628aspassed.pdf

>>1452370
>Estimates were it only saved 100 billion
It cuts 100 billion from the DEFICIT and it saved 800 billion in total spending.

>>1452369
I forgot about it, but so did Trump lmao. If it was a serious replacement plan why has the republican party collectively refused to even acknowledge it since 2017?

>>1452372
>I forgot about it
This discussion is over.

>>1452371
>Source: my ass

>>1452374
you don't get it, letting 23 million people die in debt without adequate healthcare saves us tons of money we'd be better off spending on more corporate tax cuts

>>1452373
Well actually the discussion was if Republicans had a plan to replace Obamacare, which right now they still don't. ACHA failed so miserably it cost Republicans the 2018 election and they've collectively committed to memory holing it. As it stands, in this moment, they still have no replacement for Obamacare.

>>1452376
>they still have no replacement for Obamacare.
of course, they're republicans
they're desperately hoping Americans don't figure out we can cut out all the insurance leeches and just go to single payer like every other civilized country on earth.
Its why they clutched their pearls so hard over Luigi

>>1451876
If you hold all three tiers of the government and still can't get past the opposition, you're fucking incompetent and deserve to lose power.

The world ends sleeping. Hahaha

Why feed the slaves when it'll dip into our embezzlement funds?

>>1452050
that was never the plan tho. they want to engineer a famine and unrest so trump can institute martial law.

I don't want Americans making under $75,000 a year to survive. We need to be high-class and having a bunch of trash people lowers our status. It doesn't matter if you're brown, yellow, or white, make at least $75k a year or be purged.

>>1451879
Explain how republicans are using a CR to “ram through their agenda”.

What isn’t up for debate is that Democrats used budget reconciliations along party lines to “temporarily” expand both the Affordable Care Act and Child Tax Credits in 2021 (ARPA) and extend them in 2022 (IRA) and are now holding the government hostage demanding the expansion of these programs passed along party lines become permanent.

As usual they try to buy votes with gibs and then use underhanded means of making them permanent and pretending the ACA and Child Tax Credits have always been that way and republicans hate the poors and are taking their money and health benefits.

>>1452575
Why 75? Raise the threshold to minimum 6 figures.