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All right, so Chuck Schumer had made noises a little bit earlier this week about the possibility

of holding up a continuing resolution that would fund the government all the way until

September.

And it was sort of unclear why he was doing that.

Strategically, he had no ground to stand on because, after all, if the United States

Senate, the Democratic minority decided that they were going to filibuster the continuing

resolution, there would be a government shutdown.

And the Republicans would correctly say they had the votes to prevent the government

shutdown, and it was Democrats who had actually created the government shutdown, at which point, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats would be blamed for everything. It was a gigantic, unforced error by Chuck Schumer. Well, yesterday he reversed himself. Democrats are, of course, very upset at Chuck Schumer because they believe that it is their duty to obstruct literally everything the Republicans do. Now, to be fair to Schumer, it was in no-win situation. On the one hand,

if the continuing resolution goes forward, then President Trump continues to unleash the executive

branch on itself, to use Doge to cut, to slash, to burn, to fire. He had the ability to do that

because the continuing resolution basically just says the

government is going to continue to run at the same funding levels it is previously run.

And this continuing resolution did not, in fact, include specific designations of where

funding ought to go within each department, which would sort of force Trump to spend the money

in each department.

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