Risk and boldness, not politics as usual, are necessary to stop Trump.

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10. The CR that they passed when Schumer and eight other Democrats voted for cloture gave Trump and Musk

includes continued funding for DOGE, which the shutdown would have cut off and at least temporarily stopped. It contained everything they asked for, including the spending ceilings they need to pass tax cuts for billionaires.

You can google it and find out all of the details of the resolution.

This is yet another left-over failure from the two years that Democrats controlled the House and Senate, and the White House, between 2020 and 2022. The failure is on the part of old line Democratic party Senators, like Schumer, Durbin, a few others, who, with President Biden's support, would not get rid of the filibuster to pass a budget over the Republican minority, and then draft legislation that would prevent these short term CR funding requirements, making it impossible for one party's slim majority to shut down the government.

It's described as bringing a knife to a gunfight. We took all of the serious and effective options to stop Trump off the table during a two year period when we could have done it, no matter how political it would have looked. The priorities weren't straight. That's why Bernie is getting all the attention now, and no one is listening to the other meaningless, powerless rhetoric. They didn't do it when they had the chance, so can we take them seriously now?