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Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by bobthepanda on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:31PM (#42953842)
Also, the last House was wracked with all sorts of deadlock because the Republican majority was only 5 representatives, and having 5 splinter off was incredibly easy.

The current House has an even smaller majority of 2 currently, so it's now infinitely more possible for a deadlock to happen.

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Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by cogman10 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#42954139)
Exactly this.

2 are nearly guaranteed to break because we have a couple of republicans that always vote no on budget bills because they want massive cuts to everything.

That means either the bill ends up completely destroying federal funding, which risks losing centrist republicans or republicans in tight district races. Or the bill ends up trying to win over a few democrats in similarly contested districts, which risks losing a fair bit of republicans that reject any bills that have democrat votes.

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Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by spacemanspiff01 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:39PM (#42954769)
The counterpoint from what I have been reading is that the Dems will not be helping without concessions, particularly about oversite regarding Elon musk, and doge.
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Re:20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says by throwway120385 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#42954144)
See, for instance, how long it took them to elect a speaker.
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