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Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill (prospect.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thanks to a Republican vote to stop California from setting its own auto emissions, Democrats can challenge virtually any Trump administration action, and eat up time on the Senate floor.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

To all of the people here saying Democrats won't use this, I agree. However, we should push them to use it, and we should spread awareness of it. Anytime a Democrat says "what can we do? we're in the minority!" someone should answer with this. We should shame them into using this; we should insist that they use this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Oh, they'll start using it. As soon as they get a majority and have progressive legislation that they ran on to block.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

The only hope currently (within the governmental realm) is to ~~line up behind~~ gang up on these dumb donkeys and push them with all of our might.