How Democrats Plan To Make Republicans Squirm On Tax Cuts, DOGE
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Democrats view the coming fights over President Trump's agenda as an opportunity to put his party on the defensive and damage the president's political standing.

Summary

Senate Democrats plan to force Republicans into tough votes on tax cuts and government cuts linked to Trump’s legislative agenda.

They will introduce amendments opposing tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to programs like education and Medicaid as Republicans push a $325 billion budget resolution.

Democrats also target Elon Musk’s DOGE, which is rapidly cutting federal jobs. Some Republicans express concerns over DOGE’s speed.

Democrats hope these votes will hurt Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms.

  • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 days ago

    The various Right-wing talking heads will just continue to blame them for being petty and point to it as a proof of government inefficiency. These people can’t be bothered to verify anything beyond the first opinion screamed at them through a screen.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      20·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, their whole strategy depends on high information voters knowing exactly what their representative voted for, it’s ridiculous because:

      • almost all of Trump’s voters are ‘low information’ (with the exception of billionaires that know exactly what’s going on, but they’re negligible as an actual demographic).
      • there’s a whole information ecosystem of Fox, boomer Facebook, super PACs funded ads, etc that will lie or just omit inconvenient information

      So the Democrats’ strategy is to get Republicans to vote for unpopular stuff that Republican voters will never hear about. Republicans have been passing super unpopular stuff for half a century now, their voters don’t care.

      • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 days ago

        Republicans have been passing super unpopular stuff for half a century now, their voters don’t care.

        Perfectly succinct.