Washington (AP)-Senate Democrats, who have been trying to fight President Donald Trump for a few months, settled in a bold, one-step strategy if they do not receive major health care discounts until the government’s funding ended on Wednesday: Voting to close the government.
This plan is sincerely supported by many frustrated base and party activist voters, some of whom urged the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer from New York to resign in March after he provided support to the Republicans to be open at the time.
“America’s ability to endure this moment requires a Democratic Party that encourages viable, impressive and public resistance,” Katie Bethell, the executive director of the Liberal Grounds Moveon, wrote in a letter to party leaders.
It is less clear what is in the minority party game book after 12:01 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, when the closure will begin and the administration could start postponing hundreds or even thousands of federal employees if it is going to with plans this week has been submitted to the White House.
How does it all end? And what do Democrats do then?
Betting on who will assume guilt
Democrats in public say that they think short and the Republicans will take guilt if they are closed and that they would eventually be forced to negotiate a compromise. This is a risky bet.
The Republicans have most of the palace and the Senate and have not shown any signs of mercy, as Democrats require immediate extending health care benefits, which end at the end of the year, among other requirements.
Democrats also accepted a slightly resignation attitude to the future.
The country will “get worse with or without it,” Schumer said this month. “Because Trump is illegal.” It is an obscure game game and face to Democrats, which in the past are strictly opposed to the Republican initiated closure.
Advanced closing with mass shooting of federal workers would be a major escalation of annual spending battles between two countries. The threat of closing the government – and potential political remarks – usually scared both sides so that everyone would end up all the negotiation table.
“Government funding is the property of Democrats, at least that has always been the case,” said John Thune, the leader of the Senate, Rs. D., who refused to negotiate with Democrats unless they would help a seven -week government funding extension that cleaned up the palace. “And here they are from that rock.”
The last longest closure of the country was 2018-19. In winter, when Trump demanded a federal dollars to build a US -Mexican border border border border during its first term. It ended when he supported 35 days.
Change of the role of Democrats
Schumer says that from him in March. Voting has changed everything to help finance the government over the summer.
Republicans have accepted a huge tax account that has reduced Medicaid costs, and Trump has repeatedly blocked the federal expenses, previously confirmed by Congress. Democrats say the Republicans did not contact the negotiations, and they criticized a short meeting of the White House with Schumer and the Democratic leader of the palace Hakeem Jeffries from New York.
The president seems to have a reverse course as he is now planning to meet with Schumer, Jeffries, Thune and House Mike Johnson on Monday.
“This president is right – he doesn’t have to be the president if he can’t sit down and negotiate with two Democratic leaders,” Schumer said this week at PBS News Hour.
Jeffries said Friday that Democrats were “not going to go together”.
Johnson “has my number. John Thune has my number,” he said. “The White House knows how to contact.”
Many Senate Democrats followed the closure of closed, but some of the Kaukas may vote for the government to be open or try to conclude an agreement as the term approaches.
D-pp. Senior John Fetterman voted with republican voters, while nine other Democrats voted with Schumer and Republicans on the March resolution. Republicans will need at least six additional Democrats, potentially more to get the necessary 60 votes per pass.
Schumer has a lot to lose, after I accepted political crunching of liberal groups and many voters in the spring.
On the left it is time to fight
Democratic bases have been harmful to the Republican tightening in Washington for several months, and the ever -increasing perception that the Democratic Party is too weak to fight back. As the federal closure approaches, many activists and legislators see a rare leverage point and the ability to repeat the party’s image with voters.
“It would be naive to say that all the confidence lost by the Democrats elected by officers lost and wasted their basic voters could be recovered in one moment or one fight,” said Joel Payne, Moveon Communications Manager. “But I think it will take a long way to actually start changing that relationship.”
The Sydney Register of the Campaign Committee Sydney said that Democrats cannot afford to give again, even if it means that the administration is carrying out mass federal dismissals.
Registration stated that voting with Republicans was like “granting school severity – their lunch money”.
“I want them to keep their lunch money because all bullying is going to try to steal from you,” she said.
Senior Cory Booker, DN.J., made a similar analogy on a short and democratic effort to expand extended health care subsidies, which are valid on January 1. Some Republicans support the extension, but the heads of Trump and the GOP said it was a fight later this year. Democrats say it’s time to act now.
“I’m not afraid of (Trump), I’m not afraid of his threats and I know it will be a difficult fight and ugly fight,” the Booker said this month. “But this is one fight worth having and I stand.”
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Associated Press Writers Bill Barrow Atlanta and Joey Capelletti and Lisa Mascar Washington contributed to this report.