Senate Democrats are so far sticking to a strategy pioneered by Republicans from Newt Gingrich to the height of the tea party: shut down the federal government to impose your will on a president of the opposite party.
Most Democratic senators have used the filibuster to vote down funding bills that would avert a government shutdown. Many of them are liberals who have been on record criticizing both shutdowns and the filibuster rule.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rebuffed a shutdown in March. Now his party’s progressive demands one as a way of fighting President Donald Trump, with no clear offramp in sight.
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For Republicans, the results of shutdown politics have been mixed at best. Obamacare survived a 16-day partial shutdown in 2013 aimed at defunding
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