Only one House Democrat voted in the US House of Representatives voted for a spending bill that Republicans passed to keep the US government open.
The House passed a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or “CR,” to keep the government open until September on Tuesday. Only one Republican, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against the legislation.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to join Republicans in the legislation.
Why the hell did they put a picture of AOC on it? Makes it look like she was the one.
For the clicks! There’s another comment that said they had a different pic show up
I had to open the link to check it, because a lot of times this happens automatically when the link just pulls the first picture from the article to use as the thumbnail. But nope, there wasn’t a single picture of AOC in the article, and the hyperlink of her name was the fifth link down in the article. This was intentional.
And that’s why I’m not clicking that.
You know you want to. YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHO DIDN’T VOTE WITH THEIR PARTY!!.. REPUBLICANS LOVE IT WHEN DEMOCRATS DO THIS ONE THING!!.. :: click::
Jared Golden of Maine
Shall be henceforth remembered as a traitor.
He betrayed his colleagues. He betrayed the opposition. He betrayed the country by extending the fascist shit show a little longer.
the dems wont do a damn thing about a traitor in their midst. They never do.
at this point it will be easy to identify the dinos.
So, how quickly can we find a primary challenger? He’s up for re-election in 2026 and that means we have almost two years to campaign.
Any Dems voting with Republicans are fucked next election. Vote all centrist out. Push hard left.
This might be our only opportunity. If we fail here, future efforts might be complicated by, oh, the total collapse of American democracy (or what’s left of it)
“This is a deeply partisan spending bill that not only contains completely unnegotiated and unexamined cuts – beyond that, it actually takes away all accountability from the president and strips Congress of their ability to actually review the tariffs that are being put forth by the executive,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told The Indpendent before the vote.
I’m assuming this is why she’s in the photo, lazy fucking journalism. Let the tools decide as if they aren’t biased
It’s fine to use them but for fuck sakes someone should approve the final product before publishing it
But House Democrats opposed the legislation because of the fact the bill includes major cuts to programs from everything from education, health care and energy.
“This is a deeply partisan spending bill that not only contains completely unnegotiated and unexamined cuts – beyond that, it actually takes away all accountability from the president and strips Congress of their ability to actually review the tariffs that are being put forth by the executive,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York told The Indpendent before the vote.
In case anyone is wondering why the dems voted no to this.
Vote was 217-213, 50.47%.
Without the Democrat? 216-214? 50.23%.
It was going to pass anyway. If voting yes helps one Democrat keep their seat? Sure, why not?
If voting yes helps one Democrat keep their seat? Sure, why not?
This mentality from the DNC is precisely why Republicans currently control every branch of government. Nobody likes diet Republicanism and nobody will remember this specific vote in 2026.
It’s up to the Congressman to remind everyone when his Republican opponent tries to lie about him.
It’s up to us to get a primary challenge against him.
democrats should fear being primaried by an angry electorate more than they fear republicans saying mean things about them.
It would suck to watch Coast Guard service members, TSA agents, National Parks rangers, Air Traffic Controllers, and others go without paychecks again like they did in 2018-19. I recognize back-pay was distributed after the shutdown ended, but it really sucked to watch members of the US military wonder when they’d see their paychecks again while resorting to on-base community food banks in the interim.
Since repubs have majority in both chambers, why do D votes matter at all? The only way D’s can disrupt the bill is a filibuster in the senate, right? What am I missing?
democrats will cave. It’s all they do.
Do they matter? They could if a few Repiblicans broke rank and they should oppse this spending billl becsuse it is trash. Plus if the Dems in both houses are united against the bill it shows their supporters that they aren’t caving in like they frequently do.
Fuck Jared, he had no reason to vote for the bill.
No Republican will break rank in this environment
And neither should any Dems. If we present a united front it makes it easier for Republicans to break ranks or sow discord and there is a wide variety of beliefs in the GOP.
One did on this vote
It has to pass the senate and there you need a 2/3 majority for the filibuster. So Democratic votes do matter there
You don’t for budgets. That’s just for new legislation and it is a 60 vote requirement for cloture.
IIRC, you don’t for reconciliation.
Even then you only have 53 Rep. senators
They can and will pass it via reconciliation. Budget related measures are able to be passed with a simple majority vote.
Then they should have to.
It’s easy clickbait to get mad at Democrats for failing to be sufficiently symbolic.
Since being symbolic is what democrats do instead of accomplishing things, yes.
God this is such a tired and lazy narrative. We just got out of one of the most effective administrations the world has seen and you’re still pulling this bullshit. Biden managed to steer us out of a global pandemic and avoid a recession everyone was actively rooting for while managing inflation to lower rates than any other nation globally. Without legislative control, he managed to pass two major domestic investments including one investing billionsin high tech manufacturing. He canceled billions in student loan debt, had the strongest FTC we’ve seen in decades that started up antitrust for the first time in a century, and effectively halted a geopolitical enemy without losing a single American soldier. You want to call that all symbolic? Democrats are the definition of “if you do things right, they’ll think you’ve done nothing at all” and we’re currently seeing all the things they’ve done disappear in front of our eyes.
That photo sure doesn’t look like Jared Golden. Any chance to smear AOC tho…
They use AOC to get clicks. Fucking parasites
Makes me wish I wasn’t so confused by Rust programming so I could make a PR where we can choose a thumbnail instead of going with an auto-generated one with how often the auto-generated ones are weird, wrong, unrelated, or flat out broken.
speculating here, but the “auto-generated ones” are probably just the ones in the opengraph tags, which is supposed to be what the website intended as the thumbnail. It’s more likely that these websites’ operators don’t have a clue that opengraph is being used, but since they’re the “proper” way to do embeds, lemmy can’t just ignore them, either.
Maybe it updated or something, but the article for me only shows a photo of Golden followed by one of Mace. There’s a vid at the top with a WH press conference. No photos of AOC at all.
Literally a picture of AoC in the title of this post.
I see this on my lemmy feed:
I see the same picture of Golden from both this thread and the main page of news. Looks like if I access it through .world instead of my home instance AOC shows up.
I wonder where it’s pulling the AOC pic from, because it’s not in that article.
What app are you using? Im on Voyager and it’s got the aoc pic. Also I’m in the states, maybe it’s a geoloc thing
I’m on sync but I think it’s an instance thing. I tried on desktop and .world had AOC and .zip had Golden. The .zip admin usually updates the software faster than .world does (the zip page shows 0.19.9 at the bottom and world shows 0.19.3), so maybe that has something to do with it.
Like I said, the AOC pic isn’t anywhere in the linked Independent article and the Golden one is the first one (about a third of the way down the page), so I dunno where it came from. Most of the other thumbnails are the same but there’s an article about the Dow from yesterday where again my instance has the thumbnail from the article and .world has a thumbnail that isn’t in that same link.
It’s still showing that for me too.
Anyone in Jared Golden’s district should express their extreme disapproval with his vote.
Jared golden won a red district as a Democrat, and usually votes what he thinks is best for his constituents. Not saying I agree with his vote, but I respect him for it
The irony is, he only keeps getting elected as a centrist. He’s like our Manchin, but D2 is going to be the worst effected by Trumptariffs.
Anyone can register a Google voice number with a Maine area code.
Anyone can register a Google voice number with a Maine area code.
They can detect that though, in the same way that Discord does.
Having said that, still might be worth giving the feedback, even if it doesn’t affect him directly. A “read the room” type of thing.
I would say it’d be more effective to be open about not being a constituent specifically but being a Dem voter elsewhere with strong feelings especially if you’re willing to put an effort into primarying them.
I would say it’d be more effective to be open about not being a constituent specifically but being a Dem voter elsewhere with strong feelings especially if you’re willing to put an effort into primarying them.
Personally I always prefer honesty, and I myself would be explicit about not being a constitute, but the flip side is that if he’s solely focused on the next election and keeping his job (which unfortunately most politicians seem to be), he really may not care about feedback from non-constitutes.
But bottom line, they’ll know, either way.
