Schumer to help Republicans in Senate

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34. nowhere does it say Schumer capitulated to their demands and ensure that they get exactly what they want

...so why don't we wait to see what he's negotiating.

One thing that was mentioned in exchange for his support was a vote on a clean CR, something that AOC WOULD support.

And let's not lose sight of the myriad DEMOCRATIC PRIORITIES that will still receive funding in a CR, continuing those investments and benefits.

Whatever cuts that will come will still need to be spelled out in committees and voted on individually, then combined in the reconciliation bill.

This isn't what it's being represented, although it is a risk of cementing the amounts they are reducing those agencies into the process.

Even so, this isn't the zero-sum event that it's being portrayed as. We don't really know what would be the effect of just shutting everything down - what Trump and republicans would do to prevent those agencies from restarting with all of the employees furloughed.

Is anyone addressing the potentially furloughed workforce, and what the end game of that would be? Permanent shutdown, or a negotiation at that point?