It's unclear how long the shutdown will last, with the parties nowhere near an agreement. Democrats want health care money, while Republicans insist they won't be held "hostage.”

The U.S. government officially shut down after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement on how to extend federal funding.

Donald Trump’s Republican Party controls both chambers of Congress, but it needs Democratic support to pass a bill in the Senate, where 60 votes are required. And the two parties failed to craft a bipartisan bill, with the Senate rejecting both a GOP proposal and a Democratic proposal just hours before the shutdown deadline.

It’s the first government shutdown since 2018, in Trump’s first term, which was the longest ever at 34 days, lasting into early 2019. There is no clear path to a resolution, with the two sides fundamentally at odds over how to resolve the impasse.

  • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    As nice an idea as it is, coming from one who grew up in a union household, it requires a majority of people to be willing to sacrifice in order to support their peers, and I just don’t see it in the modern mentality.

    You can’t force a union in a shop without majority votes, and even then you have how many states with ‘right to work’ laws that render them largely ineffectual.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      Yup. The infrastructure we need for this has been dismantled over the past 70 years.

      That does not mean we should leave it to Democrats or any other political party to call a general strike. That would pay a high cost for meger results.