Last week, the Democrats in Congress stood up for US.
They stood up for the Dreamers.
They stood up for CHIP families.
And the Republicans shut down the government in an effort to defeat them.
This morning, the government reopened.
And CHIP is to be funded for the next 6 years.
And, according to a publicly announced deal, Dreamers will get an up or down vote by February 8th, a little over two weeks.
(I don’t trust McTurtle to live up to this)
This is a win, folks.
Not 100% but way better than what the House pushed through on Friday which would not have had CHIP or DACA in it.
Now the largest group of hostages have been rescued and we have a bit more than 2 weeks to save the rest of them.
And if McTurtle DOES renege on the deal, we have leverage in the form of another CR that needs to pass (because the Republicans can not write a budget that can pass, not once since they have held Congress, it’s been one CR after another).
I have already read a half dozen “Oh the Dems sold us out” diaries.
CUT IT OUT!
(you know who you are)
We WON this.
And we have to make that the story.
Don’t buy into the bullsh!t.
