D. C. Democrats have generally ruled the closure game. When they are in command of Congress, they are positively susceptible to passing a finances, allow alone a healthy one. They prefer to clobber Democrats over the head with closure flair, finally getting their deadbeat means while reaping the fringe benefit of dismantled approval ratings for their rival party.  ,
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Here’s how it works: Democrats sit on their arms and do nothing about spending until the budget date looms. Once they are operating in a time-crisis environment, Democrats put forth a grotesque, swollen, and often evil federal spending bill rife with grift for their friends and financial incontinence. Republicans inevitably shrink at this monstrosity and fail to vote for it. Liberals and their advertising allies therefore fray that Republicans are obstructionists.
If the date passes without an agreement, the blame is equally heaped upon the Republicans. It is always they, not the innocent Democrats, who shut down the government by refusing to move the perfectly good paying resolution the Democrats produced. If there is a Democrat leader, he does his piece by making the closure as overly common and painful as possible. Who may forget Barack Obama apparently finding people who were miraculously free from sabbatical to put up fences around open-air statues and parks? And to maintain shutdown of 1, 100 flat miles of open sea off the coast of Florida?  ,
The compounded applied pressure — usually combined with a sticky offering of pork — is intense enough to shake free merely much persuadable Republicans to pass everything the Democrats want. In reality, Republicans were savaged and rolled with this approach enough times that after a while, all the Liberals had to do was harm to shut down the government to get enough GOP lawmakers to surrender.  ,
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But things are different today. Liberals aren’t in power in Congress or the White House, and their advertising shoulder has suddenly lied itself out of importance. On Tuesday, the Republicans in control of the U. S. House passed a continuous solution that would keep the government running until this summer — without reckless spending increases— and passed it along to their colleagues in the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the floor Wednesday, still trying to play the Democrats ‘ game of blaming the Republicans for his party’s obstructionism. ” Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort”, droned Schumer dolorously. But alas, those dastardly Republicans” chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input! — from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the house CR”. Republicans brought this shutdown upon themselves, you see.  ,
Meanwhile, said Schumer, the virtuous Democrats were “unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass”. Finally, he expressed his fervent hope that “our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday”.
But somehow, the blame does not seem to be falling on the Republicans this time.  ,
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” With Schumer saying that Democrats are not ready to proceed, the Democrats hold the cards”, explains ABC News Delaware affiliate 6ABC. ” If they do not furnish the votes to clear this procedural hurdle and get on to the bill, things could be at a stand still, and a shut down could be on the horizon”.
Meanwhile, House Democrats are urging their Senate colleagues to vote no on the funding bill they almost unanimously opposed when it passed through the House on Tuesday evening.
” House Democrats are very clear. We’re asking Senate Democrats to vote’ no’ on this continuing resolution, which is not clean, and it makes cuts across the board”, said Vice Chair Ted Lieu, flanked by five other members of House leadership at a press conference at the Issues Conference at the Lansdowne Resort. Lieu’s comments came before Schumer pushed for a 30-day clean stopgap bill.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that conversations are” continuing” with Schumer all the way down to rank-and-file Democratic members about keeping the Democratic caucus united against the bill.
” The House Democratic position is crystal clear as evidenced by the strong vote of opposition that we took yesterday on the House floor opposing the Trump-Musk-Johnson reckless Republican spending bill”, Jeffries said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, having done his part with writing and passing the lower chamber resolution, released this killer video today in support of his Senate counterpart. Behold the towering hypocrisy of Congressional Democrats:
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Nothing to see here
Just a video of Democrats opposing government shutdowns
Except now they’re trying to shut down Trump’s government to stop DOGE cuts &, ICE deportations
Hypocrites!
— DC_Draino ( @DC_Draino ) March 11, 2025
Related:  , Flailing Democrats Turn to Yet Another Once-Effective Technique
Will we see the Schumer Shutdown take hold this Friday? Or will Republicans be blamed for Democrat subterfuge as usual? Stay tuned!
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