cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/15183880

Well it wasn’t just Trump loyalists; it was 19 Republicans in the Freedom Caucus (who are indeed Trump loyalists) and almost all the Democrats voting agains bringing the current bill to the floor. Now what?

“Congressional sources tell WIRED they have no idea what the next steps will be.”

Oh.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    7 months ago

    I have never been so conflicted about a news story

    Like hey hooray, congress did something good!

    Wait

    Wait

    Did they?

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      7 months ago

      The framing of it is odd when it was just 19 Republicans making up the 228 no votes largely by Democrats. I get that they were probably just motivated by Trump’s social media ramblings but it seems like this was a Democrat win for privacy rights.