The upshot of all the drama in Congress this week is that the House Democrats sent themselves home on a two-week vacation, having passed nothing except a 30-day extension for highway funding that is now stuck in the Senate. Some DOT employees have already been furloughed.
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The Democratic leadership talks about the urgency of the moment, but behaves in practice as if they have all the time in the world. Recall that this is the same House majority that sent itself home for months at the height of the pandemic, when the country needed adult leadership
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So we went from a situation yesterday where the existential threat posed by climate change could only be solved by immediate legislation, where American families were suffering and needed help, to one today where everyone in Congress is just going to chill for a couple of weeks.
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In a country where the working class doesn't get days off, the party that claims to represent them in the legislature takes entire months off while achieving nothing.
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The Democrats have now been in power for nine months and delivered nothing of their domestic agenda. Key staff positions remain unfilled. The President himself calls the continuing pandemic an "all hands on deck crisis". And yet all the hands on deck keep going on vacation.
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