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LeftInTX

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28. Leadership is mostly a procedural position that focuses on order and decoram.

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 02:54 PM

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Without this, you would have brawls. I've been involved in a few. Nothing gets done and people get hurt.

The minority party focuses on maintaining the filibuster and preventing bad bills from passing. If things turn into a "fight", guess what? You could lose the filibuster and the bad bill passes. If it is a reconcilation bill, it is not subject to the filibuster, so this means that there is horsetrading done to remove the worst parts of the bill.

Why do you think ICE has not been funded? The Democrats would not fund DHS if it included ICE. Eventually Trump caved to the Democrats and TSA got paid again.

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