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gab13by13

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4. I want to know if the people who now favor voting no for the CR
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 08:14 AM
Thursday

also favored voting No back in March?

Shutting down the government back in March until we got protections for the social safety net made a hell of a lot of sense and even some Magats would have been behind us.

Now the horses are out of the barn, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, are being gutted by law.

It's a lot harder to get the horses back in the barn rather than not to open the door and let them out in the first place.

Now our bargaining chip is reimbursements to Obamacare which is set to expire, the rest has been made into law. Correct me if I'm wrong but undoing a law is much tougher than not passing it in the first place.

Good luck Chuck, hey, don't get me wrong, I'm on board, go for it, would have been easier to do back in March. I was even told that by voting for the CR back in March our SS would be protected, won't mention any names. Was told Democrats would be blamed for the shutdown back in March, won't mention any names.

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