spending bills for 2026 — Pentagon ($839 billion); Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education ($195 billion)
One of those should be receiving wayy more money than the other, and it's backwards
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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It starts locally. Show up for local elections. Show up for state elections. Don’t let these people make it to the federal level.
And when they do make it to the federal level, remember that they want us dead and aren't even remotely close to being on our side.
Fuck that noise. I’m visiting D.C. from the PNW, I am most definitely meeting with my elected representatives and demanding a moment of FaceTime. I will be traveling a very long way and by golly, you bet yer sweet bippy I will have a thing or two to carry on about. This is democracy in action. That is my plan, I’ve made arrangements. Will get back to you all as soon as this happens. I travel there in 60 days.
Good luck. DC is under military occupation
Not deterred in the slightest.
Perhaps NY’s 8th will vote this spineless, compromised shill out of office in November.
Hakeem Jeffries is up for reelection this November. Currently, he has only one June 23 primary challenger, Vance Bostic. This honestly looks like Jeffries will win in a landslide.
Schumer will continue to mutter his goddam inanities for years, as he isn’t up for reelection until November 2028.
There's certainly a few people that would hope a bullet helps expedite that election if they vote to hand over ICE funding just like the previous shutdown.
The Democrats need entirely new leadership if they ever want to be taken seriously as a party again. This is just a disgrace...
Dem leaders yet again drop the ball that was handed to them on a silver platter.
They work for the same people. The game is rigged
If not controlled opposition, why controlled opposition shaped?
It's long past time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and be dragged off stage.
Here's what I want Republicans and Democrats to explain - make it make sense how ICE needs all this funding. How did they possibly get by before?
They need funding to build more genocide sites
Incinerators must be expensive
German Engineering ain't cheap
Trump gotta get his beak wet.
These useless morons
They're not useless! Just for democracy. And people. But not for Trump, they're really useful for Trump!
"Why is it always these 2?"
Yes, I know they are the party leadershit.
Neoliberals only have a problem with authoritarianism when they're not in control.
They don't want to destroy the ring like Gandalf, they want to hide in a hole like Smeagol until they learn to use it.
Not good enough.
If there was an award for understatement, you’d deserve one.
Harkeem and Schumer. Who else. ?
Honestly I’m on the fence about yanking the DHS funding. Trump is just going to fund ICE through other piles of money that he got in the BBB and that he’ll just start cutting other more critical services. Like FEMA, which is under the DHS.
If the Dems can effectively communicate that Trump is using FEMA, TSA, and coastguard money for ICE, then they should cut funding. But I’m not particularly confident about the Dems ability to communicate this. Hell, a lot of people don’t even realize that Trump can still fund ICE if Dems holdback DHS funding. They have not effectively communicated this.
Trump is just going to fund ICE through other piles of money that he got in the BBB and that he’ll just start cutting other more critical services
Worse - ICE are already fully funded until 2029. As in, they have already been given $75b to spend over the next 3 years. Cut their funding to zero tomorrow and it has zero effect on them until after the next election.
You act like this is a dialogue, like the tRump republicans are there, in good faith, listening. Catch up, there can be no compromise cause they're not looking for it, all the Dems can do is obstruct by any means possible, even if they have to get creative, because any other action will simply be capitulation to the demands of the administration. That is if they're actually committed to democracy and the welfare of the American public, and not their donors' outcomes. Which I personally think you have to be deluded to think, at least in regard to the party leadership, who consistently makes the exact wrong move every time (for Americans, that is).