After days of dithering, Senate Democrats finally faced a vote they had been dreading: side with the GOP to pass an ideologically unpalatable continuing resolution (CR) or oppose it and trigger a government shutdown. To pass the House stopgap spending bill, Senate Republicans – sans Rand Paul of Kentucky – needed eight Democrats to cross the aisle and invoke cloture. They got ten. So the government gets to keep on rolling at more or less the current funding levels. But where does that leave the Democratic defectors?
The Lesser of Two “Evils”
By Thursday evening, a few Senate Democrats seemed resigned to supporting the House GOP’s continuing resolution as the lesser evil, so to speak. “For sure, the Republican bill is a terrible option,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a floor speech. “But I believe allowing Donald Trump to…
