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.

Consent decrees should be illegal.

Either the gov't wins in court, or it doesn't.

We're getting there soon folks.

The smarter (more cunning?) ones will remember to cc: an outside email account, just to make sure their emails don't get "lost".

They have some pretty nice walls there.

Empty it out and use it as an illegal alien holding and trans-shipment point.

Dang. I was hoping he'd stick around long enough to see the US flag flying above the Panama Canal again.