Boiled down, it was the lesser of two evils, from their point of view.
If the gov't shut down, there'd be no one to push back against Trump and Musk. We'd be seeing wholesale departmental slaughter. Which would have made me very happy, but (D)ems very unhappy.
So you're saying that it was a one-off strategic move by Schumer, with Dems secretly backing him but making all kinds of angst noises for their constituents? Makes some sense.... I guess.
Boiled down, it was the lesser of two evils, from their point of view.
If the gov't shut down, there'd be no one to push back against Trump and Musk. We'd be seeing wholesale departmental slaughter. Which would have made me very happy, but (D)ems very unhappy.
So you're saying that it was a one-off strategic move by Schumer, with Dems secretly backing him but making all kinds of angst noises for their constituents? Makes some sense.... I guess.