‘Full of despair’: Senate Dems look
to regroup after losing shutdown fight
Posted By: NorthernDog, 3/17/2025 1:47:36 PM
Senate Democrats are bracing for a painful post-mortem as they try to avoid a September rerun of their latest government funding defeat. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and nine of his members helped get a House GOP-authored government funding bill to the finish line, saying a vote to advance legislation they loathed was the least bad option. The alternative, they argued, was allowing a shutdown that could empower President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to accelerate their slashing of the federal bureaucracy. (Snip) Schumer’s strategy exposed major fissures within the party, marking for many of his members a disappointing
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Dems still haven't figured out they are in the minority - and likely will be for quite a while.