Sen. Chris Murphy on Budget Vote

[Mr.WeRP]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChrisMurphy/s/JsWnQGbeCb

His Senate page links to X for the video which I won’t use but it’s at his Reddit sub above.

THIS is THE STANCE that Democrats should be leading with! FUCKING RESIST! Make it as hard as possible for Trump to continue hurting people while he’s destroying our Democracy.

There is no other stance.

Here is the printed statement:

Trump has a plan – and he’s implementing it – to destroy our economy and our government, to create a crisis that allows him to hand our government over to his billionaire friends and to suspend our democracy. I wish that weren’t true, but it is. The question then is this: does the funding bill make it easier or harder for Trump to implement that plan? I judge that it makes it easier, and so I can’t support it.

“The basics here are this. Republicans are in charge, [and] they need Democratic votes to pass a funding bill. But they never negotiated with Democrats. They didn’t even try. They wrote their own partisan bill. They filled it with all sorts of right-wing shit. This isn’t a ‘continuing resolution.’ It doesn’t just continue last year’s funding, even though the press is reporting it that way. It makes big changes to law. And they’re all changes designed to make it easier for Trump to implement that plan to destroy our country.

“For instance, it makes massive cuts to housing programs, to Social Security, to programs for health care for working families. That paves the way for Musk to advance his illegal assault on those government services. It gives Trump brand new spending powers – for instance, the ability to start new military programs that haven’t even been authorized by Congress. At this moment of crisis, that sounds like a really dangerous idea. And it takes key guardrails off of presidential spending authority that allows Trump and Musk to more easily move money from one account to the other.

“Now listen, Trump and Musk are going to keep acting illegally, no matter what this funding bill says. Whether we stop them – that’s going to be up to the courts and up to our ability to mobilize people all over this country against their agenda, which is deeply, deeply unpopular. But by passing a bill that makes their plan easier to implement, Democrats risk putting a bipartisan veneer of endorsement on their campaign to give our government to the billionaires and to destroy the rule of law. And I just won’t be a part of that.”

From: https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-decision-to-vote-against-republican-funding-bill

[Think. Again.]

1. K&R

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. He speaks for me on this. n/t

[awesomerwb1]

3. Murphy is right and Schumer, as almost always, is wrong

[Baron2024]

4. Murphy

Murphy should probably be the Senate Minority Leader. Schumer is cautious to a fault.

[awesomerwb1]

5. Agree that Murphy should be majority leader

No doubt. ZERO doubt.

[BonnieJW]

16. Schumer is

The Merrick Garland of the senate

[yellow dahlia]

26. Agreed.

He and Sheldon Whitehouse have the brain power and strategic acumen.

They are good explainers and good messagers, as well.

[Raven123]

6. EXACTLY. This is not a continuing resolution

Trump said he would cut egg prices, he did not. Trump said he would fight for Americans, yet his policies are hurting American jobs, and pocketbooks. Why should anyone believe this is a CR? Trumps likes it for a reason. Murphy nailed it. Someone tell Chuck.

[TomSlick]

25. Schumer is a Harvard man.

You can always tell a Harvard man but you can't tell him much.

[PatSeg]

7. Are there any Democrats in congress

who agree with Chuck Schumer on this? I tried to understand his point of view, but I just don't get it.

[Nanjeanne]

9. Well Fetterman. And Gillibrand. There are a few we haven't heard from. I believe they need 7

[PatSeg]

10. Thanks

I really don't understand Fetterman, so I suppose I can't be surprised.

[Celerity]

13. Besides the ones already listed, keep an eye on these ones

Slotkin, Kelly, King, Hickenlooper, Gallego, Peters, Hassan, Cortez Masto, Rosen, Coons, Shaheen, Warner, Kaine, Ossoff, Warnock, Bennet, Klobuchar, Blunt Rochester, Schiff, Welch

[PatSeg]

17. I just saw Schiff on TV recently

and he was very clearly opposed to the CR resolution. I believe it was shortly after Schumer appeared on Chris Hayes show. I need to pay attention to some of the others you've listed. This is unnerving.

Edit to add: Just read that Ossoff is a "no".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220138583

[Celerity]

18. good to hear about Schiff and Ossoff, but Cortez Masto is now the third Yes vote

[PatSeg]

19. Oh crap

Some days it feels like we can't win for losing.

[Bengus81]

21. They got TEN counting Schumer.....TEN

[Martin68]

8. Yes.

[GoodRaisin]

11. He is absolutely spot on.

[surfered]

12. He is a smart and measured guy.

[lindysalsagal]

14. I got this email, as well. Chris is a good man. n/t.

[kentuck]

15. Chris Murphy is a credible Democrat.

It might be wise to listen to what he is saying.

Face the music now. It's only going to get louder.

[returnee]

20. That's the point...

…They are legalizing the TSF agenda by allowing this resolution to pass.

This is an absolute win for TSF. Trump is going to do illegal shit leading to emergency situations anyway. He’s waiting for popular protests to rise to the point of violence and theme gets his emergency anyway.

OPPOSE! OPPOSE! OPPOSE!

[SunImp]

22. Sen. Schiff & Murphy made great points against the bill

One of them will probably be the future Senate Minority Leader

[senseandsensibility]

23. Murphy should be the next leader

He's been sounding like this since day one of the administration. He saw the danger.

[bagimin]

24. I agree

I feel like he is our spokesman.

[Think. Again.]

27. K&R

[lapucelle]

28. "Whether we stop them - that's going to be up to the courts..."

Did Senator Murphy address how a government shutdown might affect the judiciary, specifically the functioning of federal courts?

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/heres-how-shutdown-could-affect-courts

https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judiciary-news/2019/01/07/judiciary-operating-limited-funds-during-shutdown

[flamingdem]

29. Give Murphy a bigger leadership role

We need him yesterday!

[Ruby the Liberal]

30. Well, thanks to the Senators from Wall Street

The downside - they get blamed for shutting down the government? Who gives a shit. They are going to be blamed for everything anyway because thats already built in and it isn't changing.

Afraid they are going to get yelled at by Jamie Dimon and his cabal? Whats he going to do - primary one of them? Grow up. You have millions of constituents.

Its all just so irritating.

Cowards