Thune says he offered Democrats a vote on Obamacare subsidies to end government shutdown

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18. Honestly it doesn't matter

I'll be completely frank I don't know what the answer is anymore.
The Senate and House Democratic caucus cannot trust Republicans on anything they say. They can even include it in the budget and pass it only to have the Mango Mussolini administration just decide "nah, nevermind" and refuse to do it.
No matter what they negotiate they can now just line item veto all they want or just reduce it by whatever they want and there really absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.
The courts can yell at them, as they are doing now about court orders this administration is ignoring, but the courts are completely toothless because they have no means of enforcement.

Basically our only hope is literally that people will finally have enough but I have lost all faith in humanity at this point and truly believe that if he just issues a $500 check that most people will shut up and be quiet and let him do whatever he wants.
I always love how people say stuff like "would you let "person X" do "thing X" for a million dollars" when in reality the average American would sell out their entire family for a $25 gift card to Denny's.
Maybe I'm wrong and hopefully I am but the country is in a very bad spot right now and I don't think there is a lot of options on the table to fix it