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.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s not bottom up, that’s just a different org structure. One that doesn’t exist at this time

    You have to get people on board and coordinate… That’s the only requirement. Having Democrats call for this would get some people on board, moving a general strike from impossible to slightly less impossible

    But more importantly, it would be taking a stand. The tiniest, most performant stand, but still a step up

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      If the union is any good at all, it’s bottom up. Unions need to be controlled by their members in a directly democratic way.

      You’re making the same mistake as MLers. The working class is too dumb to sieze the means of production themselves, so they need a political party to do it for them. A general strike called by Democrats is not one that would produce results that are worth the cost.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        And if the Democratic party was any good, they would be listening to the will of the people and the desire for a general strike would flow up from the people. The decision to do it would still be top down, because someone has to figure out the logistics

        There’s no general strike coming and we’re miles away from the slimmest possibility, but I’d like to hear leaders calling for one all the same

        By calling for something so anti-billionaire, they would be signaling whose side they’re on, giving them more legitimacy