House and Senate Democrats Can End The Madness If They Hold The Line on March 14

Because of the madness of the current GOP controlling Congress and the White House, the federal government is headed for a shutdown after March 14 unless the GOP-controlled Congress passes a new government funding bill.

A tweet from Elon Musk blew up last year's bipartisan deal in December to keep the government funded until March 14. Then Democrats folded and let House GOP make the previously negotiated deal worse (every D except Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) voted for the Musk deal).

Since then, instead of working on doing their job to run the U.S. government, the White House has been rolling out the Project 2025 administrative self-coup and the Congressional GOP have been cheering Trump and Elon Musk along.

The GOP is planning to ratify Trump's coup with a placeholder bill that will let Trump keep running our government into the ground:

In interviews with NOTUS, GOP lawmakers predicted they would fall back on a stopgap spending bill to keep funding levels the same through the rest of the fiscal year. But they openly admitted that their own party can’t pass funding bills without Democrats, who are demanding assurances that President Donald Trump will spend congressionally appropriated funds instead of simply ignoring laws. Republicans reject that demand, saying Trump would never sign a law limiting his own power, anyway.

Republicans expect Democrats to fold and vote to ratify Trump's coup by helping them push through a "continuing resolution."

The Democratic demand for GOP on the government funding package needs to be much clearer and louder than "assurances." The demand should be:

1) Uphold the Constitution
2) End Executive Overreach

That means:
- No more Musk. Musk needs to be gone.
- No more DOGE. DOGE needs to be gone.
- Trump must rescind his unconstitutional executive orders. All of them.
- Congress must restore power of the purse.

Then, and only then, can House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune get Democrats to the negotiating table for a spending package.

In the Senate, Sens. Andy Kim (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have publicly pledged not to back spending legislation until the constitutional crisis of the Trump-Musk coup attempt is over. There needs to be much more evidence from both the House Democrats and the Senate Democrats that they're not going to vote to ratify the coup.

In addition to leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, the top Democratic negotiators are the appropriations ranking members Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).

Every member of Congress need to hear the demand: No Kings in America: No votes for the GOP plan to ratify the Trump-Musk coup