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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made clear Thursday that he’d vote for the GOP bill to avert a shutdown, highlighting a divide within the Democratic Party.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Vote her out. Voted against Lakin Riley act, stopping biological males from women’s sports and locker rooms , and stopping the government from shutting down. The only thing she has done is have a baby and bring it on the Senate floor.
We can’t vote her out. She had 3,000,000 votes in 2016. There’s no way to get her out when 3,000,000 complete morons in the state say “Tammy doin’ a good job for da workin’ people”. I say with Chicago accent because that’s where a good chunk of her votes come from.
And wreck an expensive aircraft while in the service.
The party of big government wants to shut the government down?
Who woke up Tammie? We haven’t heard from her on anything important in months.
They need to shutdown the government to…..save governments? These old folks can’t even get a coherent message together…
Only thing that needs to be shutdown are you two radicals