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   Augie Ray (augieray@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 05:30:05 JST Augie Ray

   Some Federal employees on Reddit are showing more fight and backbone than the Democrats in Congress.

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 05:40:25 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • effariwhy

     @effariwhy @augieray Yeah, I'm very much interested in learn what steps Congressional Democrats could take that they aren't taking.

     If they were in the majority in Congress they could issue subpeonas, hold up legislation the Pres wants, block nominees. As the minority branch of Congress, their ability to block or hold up executive action is limited. Dem leaders outside Congress can throw up legal challenges, and they are doing that... 🤷

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     effariwhy (effariwhy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 05:40:26 JST effariwhy

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     @augieray it's only a handful of dems on a small number of initiatives who aren't holding the line. For the most part, the senate and house dems are doing everything they can to push back in light of have no majority.

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     Augie Ray (augieray@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 05:40:26 JST Augie Ray

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     @effariwhy I do not believe that. The political accounts I follow discuss all the ways Dems could be doing much more to block and obstruct. I think a lot of Dems are taking a very cautious approach rather than pulling out the pitchforks. Whether this is due to optimist Trump will implode or the believe they'll find common ground with the GOP, I don't know.

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     effariwhy (effariwhy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 05:40:26 JST effariwhy

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     @augieray I see these as well, and none of them lay out steps that are actually possible with the current majorities held by the GOP, and the ones that are possible are actually being pursued by dems. It's like the 2 don't see each other. Dems do A. People online say, "Why aren't the dems doing A". Rinse, wash, repeat.