@jeanne-mayell i just came to say I got a feeling on the shutdown ending in November ... and the number 22 ... not sure if that is the day or if 22 has other significance.
@journeywithme2 I was thinking it would be later too. But the dems just caved late tonight. Yup. They caved. Is official. Well, I can go on vacation as planed by plane and cancel the train tickets to Vacouver airport to fly out.
@journeywithme2 BUT "There is more to come before the government can reopen. Any one senator can delay consideration of the package for several days, plus the House will have to return and adopt the deal struck in the Senate before it gets sent to President Donald Trump’s desk."
Feeling that it won't go through like these few Dems want it to.GOP-ers have no Iintentions to do anything at all. They are highy invested in gaslighting and refusing to negotiate, revealing them to be the worst of the worst.
We must continue to insist on what we need and deserve.
Fetterma. Is the worst.
@higgimic1020gmail-com even if it passes the Senate it still has to get through the house which is on vacation!
@higgimic1020gmail-com the House Speaker doesn’t want to have to vote on the Epstein issue… I suspect he also doesn’t want to have to vote on opening up the government again unless T gives him the go ahead.
Arizona’s newly elected Democratic House Representative hasn’t even been sworn in... she won her election weeks and weeks ago!
@freya oh excellent point. He is doing all he can to stall that. I believe she had to get a lawsuit to to be sworn in
I'm grateful that my Senators and my Rep-turned-futureGovernor were like "this is no", but it is what it is and I figure they have to have good reasons to allow it.
That said I am curious of Johnson will survive as speaker and if once he opens the House they will force votes on Epstein. Which, wait, hold on, this still requires Senate and presidential signature, so its meaningless. Why would he stop it.
Honestly though so many things are up in the air and it very feels weird.
I also wonder if things will happen to reveal that Trump is not well, makes me wonder if / when a thing about that happens so blatantly that it can't be hidden.