House Democrats are facing ridicule for parroting identical critiques of the Republican-backed stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week.
Within a span of a few hours Wednesday, several lawmakers posted on X largely the same message about how they wanted to vote on a four-week continuing resolution in place of the six-month bill already passed by the GOP-led House that is now under consideration in the Senate.
House Democrats stand united for a four-week funding extension that stops harmful cuts, keeps the government open, and allows Congress to reach a bipartisan funding agreement.
I am ready to vote today, tomorrow or Friday to pass a bipartisan extension.
Longtime Capitol Hill reporter Jamie Dupree shared a screen grab of four posts that mirrored each other from Reps. Marc Veasey (D-TX), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Emilia Strong Sykes (D-OH), and Sarah McBride (D-DE).
“Democrats using Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V,” Dupree said.
In response, Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman noted, “it’s very interesting. in an era where people talk all the time about authenticity on social media, Dems are going in this direction.”
Republican lawmakers chided their Democrat colleagues.
“This is what happens [when] you have no leader, no plan, or no vision. It is about as cringe as their choose your fighter videos,” said House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI), referring to a recent promo featuring Democrats that was widely mocked.
“Embarrassing,” said Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA). “Democrats have zero authentic message other than shutting down the government because they just despise [President Donald] Trump. Free advice – don’t shut down the government & start working with Republicans to deliver on the commonsense agenda Americans voted for.”
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) quipped, “The left has always hated independent thinkers, so this is no surprise coming from the copy/paste caucus,” and ended her post with a “woman shrugging” emoji.
Elon Musk, who is overseeing the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, effort, also sounded off.
“They must be using the same social media intern,” Musk quipped.
As reported by The Daily Wire, Democrats also pushed out almost identical video messages ahead of Trump’s first joint address to Congress of his second term last week.
