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By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 4:08 PM
Moments after news broke that President Donald Trump had abruptly sided with Democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase, hurricane relief and a federal funding bill over the unanimous opposition of Republicans, a wave of cheers and applause emanated from the room on the second floor of the Capitol building where Senate Democrats were meeting over lunch.
When they emerged, however, Democrats were coy about what the burst of celebration was for. Oh, was there applause? Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) said with a smile. Maybe they were clapping for somebodys birthday. Who knows?
We clap for a lot of things in our caucus, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) deadpanned.
While playing down the political victory they had just scoredwinning all of their demands from a Republican presidentthe Democrats acknowledged that the deal gives them leverage down the road to extract concessions from the Republican majority, such as protections for immigrants now at risk of losing their DACA protections.
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(15,805 posts)the Dems and Trump? Kelly has cleaned out most of Trump's toadies, so maybe he's orchestrating some policy changes too?
Me.
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