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Schumer isn't only protecting federal workers. Look, there's no playbook here. I wanted the Dems to use the filibuster, but there are risks in that:
1. The courts are currently our best option of resistance. Risking a judicial shutdown is self-defeating.
2. The GOP wants the government shut down. Very good chance they won't reopen it. Also, if we do shut it down, then the reopening bill would be subject to presidential veto. And we know Trump wants it shut down, because Trump has no intention of stopping. Shutting down the government would allow him to rampage with little resistance whatsoever.
3. What Trump and Musk are doing is exceedingly unpopular, and it's going to get more so. We don't need to blur the lines of accountability. My sense is that the lines won't be blurred: people will do what they always do, and blame the party in power. But we don't know if that's what will happen.
4. There are a lot of other people, besides government workers, who would suffer from an extended shutdown and again, there's no reason to think that it would reopen any time soon.
The debt ceiling is a better opportunity, because the GOP doesn't want to crash the financial system. Well, most of the GOP, at least.
I'm really of two minds here. I can see the arguments both ways.
1. The courts are currently our best option of resistance. Risking a judicial shutdown is self-defeating.
2. The GOP wants the government shut down. Very good chance they won't reopen it. Also, if we do shut it down, then the reopening bill would be subject to presidential veto. And we know Trump wants it shut down, because Trump has no intention of stopping. Shutting down the government would allow him to rampage with little resistance whatsoever.
3. What Trump and Musk are doing is exceedingly unpopular, and it's going to get more so. We don't need to blur the lines of accountability. My sense is that the lines won't be blurred: people will do what they always do, and blame the party in power. But we don't know if that's what will happen.
4. There are a lot of other people, besides government workers, who would suffer from an extended shutdown and again, there's no reason to think that it would reopen any time soon.
The debt ceiling is a better opportunity, because the GOP doesn't want to crash the financial system. Well, most of the GOP, at least.
I'm really of two minds here. I can see the arguments both ways.