• stray@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    If the Democrats were willing and capable of getting Americans things like universal healthcare, why didn’t they do it while they were in power?

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      3 days ago

      Democrats haven’t had 60 senators since 1979. They had 58 in 2010 for exactly 72 days and tried to pass public option healthcare but only 1 independent voted with them so they settled for the lesser medicaid expansion that the current Republicans are gutting in the budget. For the record, that medicaid expansion passed with supermajority as every singe Republican voted nay.