We Are Following Chuck Schumer's Plan To Defeat Republicans

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36. That story makes it clear that Democrats didn't vote for the CR, so no, Democrats did not pass the CR.

Without those 10 procedural votes to invoke cloture, the government would have shut down and would have stayed closed until Trump gave Johnson permission to introduce a new CR to try to re-open the government.

Can you even imagine what would be going on at this point if it were Trump who had the power to determine which government services and agencies would remain open and which would shut down and with the federal courts shuttered for all except mission critical (i.e. criminal) cases?

How many millions of federal workers would Trump have furloughed with no guarantee of being brought back? How many thousands of federal workers that Trump didn't furlough would be working without pay? How many more folks would have been deported to foreign hell holes by now? How large would the backlog of Social Security applications be at this point?

And finally, how long would it have taken for all the third-party voters/nonvoters pumping their fists in the air bellowing "Shut it down!" to start whining "Democrats need to do something"?

I like Democratic leaders who understand the stakes and make the hard choices to ensure that we don't play right into Trump's hands.